10 Celebrities Who Grew Up Mormon

Pretty just some celebrities have revealed that they’ve been raised in a non secular Mormon household, the place they’ve been taught to abstain from many points seen as sinful, like alcohol, tobacco, medicine and same-sex relationships. Whereas most of these stars have now taken fully completely different paths and left these beliefs beforehand, they nonetheless view their Mormon upbringing as a necessary part of who they’re.

Uncover out what these stars wanted to say about their Mormon childhood…

Amy Adams was raised throughout the Mormon church until her mom and father obtained divorced when she was 11-years-old. Attempting once more, Amy says she was too youthful as soon as they left to have really developed a “sturdy religious pull in route of the church” and for her, it felt further like they’ve been leaving a neighborhood.

“I grew up as a Mormon and that had further of an affect on my values than my beliefs,” she knowledgeable The Telegraph. “I’m afraid I’ll on a regular basis actually really feel the load of a lie. I’m very laborious on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over, too. You probably can’t really misbehave with out feeling badly about it — at least I can’t…What I nonetheless actually really feel and depend upon from that sort of instructing, is how one can ship a wide range of pleasure to the people spherical you by being optimistic and hopeful.”

Musician Benson Boone grew up as a part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints nevertheless admits he under no circumstances really resonated with the religion. Attempting once more on his youthful years, he says he under no circumstances had the an identical experiences as completely different people throughout the church.

“Rising up, numerous folks at church would talk about these experiences that they’ve had and these non-public revelations and feelings and voices,” he knowledgeable Rolling Stone. “I under no circumstances felt it as bodily present as they did, and so I was on a regular basis confused and aggravated. I was on a regular basis scared to ship that as a lot as people because of I merely didn’t want to accept that, like, I wasn’t feeling what everyone else was feeling.”

Benson admits that he struggled collectively together with his concepts until lastly opening as a lot as a pal who actually felt the an identical strategy. He now doesn’t want to be restricted to just one religion and has his “private opinions” gathered from quite a few religions and beliefs.

Katherine Heigl was raised Mormon whereas rising up in Connecticut. Attempting once more, she says her mom and father found the religion whereas they’ve been dealing with the shortage of her older brother, who was killed in a car accident. Katherine was merely seven-years-old on the time her mom and father remodeled and has optimistic recollections of the church. Whereas she not considers herself a part of religion, she launched some practices into her grownup life, like her decision to not keep collectively together with her husband Josh Kelley sooner than they obtained married.

“That [Mormon] building and self-discipline was really good for me,” she knowledgeable Good Housekeeping. “I had a childhood that was a childhood. I listened to my mom and father. I revered the foundations.”

When Jewel was born in 1974, her mom and father have been working in direction of Mormons and her father Antz was attending Brigham Youthful Faculty. After graduation, the family moved to Alaska and Jewel was raised in a religious household until her mom and father divorced when she was eight-years-old. After her mother moved away from the family, her father was left to spice up Jewel and her two brothers, and points modified drastically. When Antz finally obtained one different woman pregnant out of wedlock, he was excommunicated from the church.

“I grew up in a very standard Mormon family. Nevertheless all of the items modified when my mom left. My dad started ingesting and being bodily abusive, so like hitting us, and that’s what induced me to maneuver out [at 15],” she knowledgeable People. “He was in a wide range of rage and a wide range of yelling.”

David Archuleta grew up in Utah and was a part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He even took a hiatus from the music commerce to go on a mission journey to Chile. Nevertheless as an grownup, David says he began to have a “faith catastrophe” whereas figuring out his sexuality and his involvement throughout the church — and it led to despair and suicidal concepts.

“Inside the church, they’re saying homosexuality is a sin, it’s of the devil. I’d assume, ‘Oh, my gosh, I don’t want to be of the devil. So let me preserve praying and fasting and attempting to be obedient,” he knowledgeable NBC Info. “I assumed ending my life could possibly be increased than turning into evil for allowing myself to fall in love with the an identical intercourse.”

Shortly after coming out as queer, David began the tactic of attempting to reconcile his identification with the church’s beliefs. After having many conversations with church leaders about religion’s views on the LGBTQ neighborhood, he and his mother finally decided to go away in 2022.

“Now, I merely want to current people who I left the church and I’m fully blissful,” David talked about. “A variety of situations, everytime you’re in a further closed-off neighborhood, people try to make you’re feeling like in case you depart, you’re not going to be fully blissful. Nevertheless I’m happier the place I’m. I’m a lot happier.”

Ryan Gosling was raised in a small metropolis in Canada and his family have been working in direction of Mormons. Inside the early 2000s, Ryan known as himself “religious nevertheless nondenominational” and acknowledged that being Mormons was nonetheless a perfect sense of satisfaction for his mother and sister. Nevertheless making an attempt once more later in life, Ryan shared that his family weren’t as spiritual as they was as soon as.

“We’ve got been launched up pretty religious,” he knowledgeable The Guardian. “My mother admits it. She says, ‘You have got been raised by a religious zealot.’ She’s fully completely different now, nevertheless on the time, it was a part of all of the items – what they ate, how they thought.”

Siblings Derek and Julianne Hough, along with many alternative Dancing With The Stars execs, have been raised in Utah as a part of the Mormon faith. Whereas Derek and Julianne at the moment are not working in direction of Mormons, Julianne appears to be once more fondly on that time in her life. She says she remembers family nights and spending time with the quite a few completely different children who’ve been part of the church.

“It’s what it was. I didn’t know any fully completely different. I cherished the social aspect, that was sort of how I was usually often called a baby — going into church and sitting on all folks’s lap and giving all folks hugs at, like, three. I was the little greeter,” she shared on the Armchair Expert podcast.

Julianne added that she recollects downsides to the religion as properly, along with the overarching try for perfectionism. Women significantly have been made to “observe the foundations and obey and do all of the items” to make it doable in your “family is the best and most wonderful to have the ability to serve God and your husband because of he’s the one accountable for providing.” Julianne finally left the religion.

Eliza Dushku grew up throughout the Mormon church the place politician Mitt Romney actually served as her bishop. As of 2012, she says she doesn’t keep in mind herself to be “very Mormon,” considerably as a result of religion’s stance on the LGBTQ+ neighborhood — nevertheless she is grateful for her upbringing throughout the church.

“There’ll on a regular basis be that part of me that’s Mormon,” she knowledgeable The Salt Lake Tribune.

Panic! on the Disco frontman Brendon Urie was raised in “a very, very strictly religious household” as part of the Mormon faith nevertheless began rebelling when he was an adolescent. Attempting once more, he says he wanted to take a seat down collectively together with his mom and father when he was 16 and inform them that he had been going wild with out their knowledge — partying, doing medicine and going to strip golf gear. Whereas he walked away from the faith, he says there “is loads instilled in [him] from rising up Mormon” and it nonetheless influences his music.

“I nonetheless use a wide range of good values from rising up throughout the Church, and there was a manner of neighborhood. Nevertheless you’ve gotten been moreover being carefully judged by people who wanted to look down on you for not being as good as they’re,” Brendon talked about. “And that’s not the sense I get after I’m touring and easily in music sometimes. So meeting followers and interacting with completely different bands has develop right into a model new religion to me, one which’s overwhelmingly gorgeous and enlightening.”

Take into consideration Dragons singer Dan Reynolds grew up in a “really conservative” Mormon household. He even attended Brigham Youthful Faculty and served a mission in Omaha, Nebraska. Nevertheless he not considers himself a part of the Mormon faith and admits that he “on a regular basis struggled” with religion. Attempting once more, he says he spent his 20s and early 30s “really indignant” at religion, as he felt he’d “been duped.”

“There’s clearly parts of the Mormon religion that I actually really feel pretty strongly are harmful, significantly to our gay youth,” he knowledgeable People. “At situations I actually really feel pretty isolated from my family, nevertheless I moreover love them and am close to them and see them, and there’s no animosity there. I’m on a definite path. I’ve to love myself ample to watch my truth.”

He continued, “[I] observed a wide range of the harm that acquired right here from it for me personally, nevertheless it moreover appeared to work extraordinarily properly for my family, and they also’re all healthful, fully blissful folks. As I’ve gotten older, I’m not indignant about it anymore. If one factor works for any person, that’s really nice and unusual, and I don’t want to mess with it.”