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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ellie Muir

Rebekah Vardy opens up about childhood abuse and being shunned by Jehovah’s Witnesses: ‘It’s hard to see how I survived’

Channel 4

Rebekah Vardy, who is best known for being the wife of English footballer Jamie Vardy and also at the centre of the dramatic Wagatha Christie trial last year, has revealed the truth behind her upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness.

Presenting a new Channel 4 documentary titled Rebekah Vardy: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Me, Vardy says that she was raised within the religious organisation until the age of 15 when she was shunned from the community she grew up in, in Norwich.

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