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The controversial FLDS cult in Utah gets the Lifetime treatment this weekend with the network television premiere of Surviving My Father: The Rachel Jeffs Story .

The TV film is based on the story of Rachel Jeffs, whose father Warren Jeffs is the convicted polygamist leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. As the daughter of one of Warren Jeffs’ 80 wives, Rachel endured years of trauma and sexual abuse, and was married off at 18. She finally escaped the polygamist cult with her five children in tow during a secret nightfall operation in 2014. GET: DIRECTV STREAM 5-DAY FREE TRIAL

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