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38 The Real “Rael” 38 The Real “Rael” I was married to clone cult Marie-Paul adds: 'I don't blame own car magazine. leader Rael 15 years. them for hating me. I am partly In 1973, when she was pregnant responsible because I didn't get them with Aurore, they visited his home village away from him. But Claude had some sort of Ambert, in the mountainous Auvergne I was married to clone cult leader of psychological grip on me that I region of central France. He set off one Rael 15 years. He wrecked my life couldn't shake off. day to climb an extinct volcano - and and our children's ; The ex-wife of 'I believed the children needed a came back as Rael. the 'alien messenger' who claims to father and every day of their lives I He claimed he had met a 'little have cloned human babies reveals prayed he would stop being Rael and green man' called Elohim who had taken become Claude again, but he never did. him in a spaceship to his planet to meet how he abused and brainwashed 'He is a very cynical, manipulative Jesus, Moses and Buddha. He was given his own family and charismatic man. I just did not have a scented bath by female robots and was the strength to leave. Looking back, it is told aliens had created the human race Mail on Sunday (England), Jan. 12, extraordinary what I tolerated. 25,000 years earlier using DNA 2003 'He was only at home for about half technology. http://yellowbrix.com/ of our marriage. The rest of the time he Returned to Earth the same was travelling the world preaching and afternoon, he said his mission as Rael was Fighting back the tears as she gathering disciples. When he was at home to build an embassy for aliens in perches anxiously on the edge of the sofa he slept with hundreds of women - a new Jerusalem by 2035. He was also told in her remote French Alpine chalet, it is one every day, all pretty young devotees humanity could achieve eternal life still hard for Marie-Paul Cristini to who thought he was some kind of god. He through cloning. This led him to set up express her anger and disgust at her 15- wouldn't stop having sex even if I walked the secretive, Bahamas-based Clonaid year marriage to sinister sect leader into the room. He made me cook for them organisation in 1987. Claude Vorilhon - the man who claims to and clean up after them. He now claims to have 55,000 have cloned humans. 'I never attended sect meetings and followers in 84 countries and last month Even 17 years after their divorce, never believed in his mad ideas, but found announced the birth of two cloned human raw emotions at the way he abused and myself sucked into his lifestyle none the babies. Neither has been authenticated. corrupted her and their two children are less. Marie-Paul says: 'I thought I had just under the surface. The mention of the 'When I finally left him in 1985 we married a fairly ordinary, if slightly word 'Rael' makes her tremble with were living in Spain, where we had egotistical, man. Not a freak. At first I loathing. moved after France banned his sect. He believed that Claude really thought what Spitting out the words, she says: had turned the children against me and he was saying was true, but over the years 'He destroyed my life and our children's one day he simply said he had no more I began to think the whole Raelian lives. They were so young and innocent. use for me. movement was a trick to have more sex They should never have been exposed to 'I was both relieved and devastated and to satisfy the enormous ego and need the debauched and wicked things that at the way I had been abused for so long.' to be worshipped that he had always had. went on in our home.' Marie-Paul, now Penniless, Marie-Paul went back to 'These days I have ceased to care. I an elegant 57-year-old woman living as a France and borrowed money from her have no opinions on the cloning and virtual recluse, tells how Vorilhon mother to buy her house in Draillent. 'We haven't seen him since 1985. I have brought home hundreds of young women still owned the house in Paris where we rebuilt my life. It has been a long, grim, to have sex with during their marriage. had been living earlier, but the memories uphill struggle, but I am free of him. Is he She witnessed nude gatherings in of what had gone on in there were so mad? No, I don't think so. the living room and says she was treated awful I couldn't go back,' she says. I think he is devious, crafty, as a servant while he brainwashed their Marie-Paul returned to nursing to manipulative and very, very clever.' Back preteen children into believing he was a pay the bills - but lost touch with the in Ambert, Claude's aunt, Therese divine messenger for an alien race. children. 'Claude took the children to Vorilhon, 87, still finds it hard to grasp She says: 'The kids believed him . . Montreal and they were both deeply how the 'angelic' nephew she raised as her . they'd had it drummed into them since involved in the sect until about two years son became a man bent on playing God. before they could talk. What he did to ago when they finally saw reason and She says: 'He was such an adorable them was hateful - he devastated their managed to get out. child. What made him do it? He went to lives. No child should be expected to 'They both despise him and can the local Catholic school and he was in witness adult nudity and exist in an finally see all the damage he did. Aurore the church choir. He was the perfect environment so close to people having even plans to change her surname soon child.' Therese brought up Claude, an orgies.' For 15 years after their divorce in because being a Vorilhon is ruining her only child, after his own mother, Colette, 1985, Marie-Paul's daughter Aurore, now life.' It is no surprise that Vorilhon, now 'rejected' him. 'She started bringing 30, and son Ramuel, 28, refused to have 55, Claude round to my flat all the time when anything to do with her. Only in the past he was a tiny baby,' says Therese. 'By the two years has she resumed contact with tells a different story. In a recent time he was three he was living here them and rebuilt her own life free of the interview he said: 'One day my wife said, fulltime with my husband Gilbert and clutches of the sect. "You have to choose between me and the me.' (Continued on Page 39) At her home in the mountain movement." I chose the movement.' hamlet of Draillent, she finds solace Marie-Paul met and married Vorilhon in Want to know how Creepy Canada is? painting dreamlike pictures, eerily akin to Paris in 1970 when he was running his www.creepycanada.com the extraterrestrial visions of Raelism.