The Hollywood star Glenn Close just revealed in the mental health docuseries “The Me You Can’t See,” which was made by Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry, that she grew up in a cult. Though she is now 74, Close said that she still suffers “trauma” from this experience.

“It’s astounding that something you went through at such an early stage of your life still has such a potential to be destructive,” Close said. “I think that’s childhood trauma.”

Entertainment Tonight reported that Close grew up in the religious group, Moral Re-Armament.

“From when I was seven to when I was 22, I was in this group called MRA, and it was basically a cult,” Close explained. “Everybody spouted the same things and there was a lot of rules, a lot of control… It was really awful.”

The MRA is based on “Four Absolutes” — absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness and love — and Close said that being raised under those extreme beliefs left her family “broken up.” Close believes that this trauma later contributed to her three marriages failing.

“Because of the devastation, emotional and psychological of the cult, I have not been successful in my relationships and finding a permanent partner and I am sorry about that,” she said. “I think it is our natural state to be connected like that. I don’t think you ever change your trigger points, but at least you can be aware of them and maybe avoid situations that might make you vulnerable, especially in relationships.”

Close is now living in Montana, where she enjoys spending time with her sisters, Jessie and Tina.

“I’ve come back to my family,” she said. “I’m connected to them, when I used to be a whole country away from them for all of my career.”

Close’s episode includes a brutally honest discussion about mental health in her family, as she opens up about Jessie’s hospitalization for and subsequent diagnosis with bipolar 1 disorder and her eldest son, Calen Pick, being diagnosed as schizophrenic. Close discussed the moment her sister finally reached out for help.

“We all happened to be in my parents’ house in Wyoming, and I remember her kids were already loaded in her car and she came up to me across the driveway and said, ‘I need help. I can’t stop thinking about killing myself,'” she said. “For me, it was a shock. She ended up in McLean Hospital — a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts — I took her there. She was finally, at age 50, properly diagnosed as bipolar 1 with psychotic tendencies.”

“Jessie told me she was afraid that if parents found out that she had bipolar 1 that they wouldn’t allow their children to play with her daughter,” Close added as she became emotional.

After noticing that there was a lack of mental health experts in their hometown of Bozeman, the Close sisters are now working to bring a psychiatric ward to their local hospital.

“This issue, if it’s in our family and if we’re dealing with this kind of pain and this kind of fright and this kind of sense of shame, there are millions of other families who are going through the same thing,” Close said.