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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Rebecca Nicholson

Rebekah Vardy: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Me review – this harrowing documentary will totally surprise you

Rebekah Vardy: Jehovah Witnesses And Me.
Rebekah Vardy: Jehovah Witnesses And Me. Photograph: Channel 4

It may sound as if its title has come from the Alan Partridge school of TV commissioning, but there is nothing at all humorous about Rebekah Vardy: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Me. Vardy gets her notoriety out of the way in the early moments of this powerful film, explaining that she is best known as the wife of a Premier League footballer and “a bit of a controversial character from that trial”.

What follows is a harrowing account of her early life as a Jehovah’s Witness and an investigation of the Christian denomination, its structures and its practices.

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