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Podcast: Miss Understood with Rachel Uchitel
Episode: The Real Story Behind Wayward: My Time Inside the School That Inspired a Netflix Nightmare
Description: Everyone’s talking about Netflix’s new series Wayward — but for me, it’s not just entertainment. It’s my life story.In this deeply personal episode, I break down what’s real and what’s made for TV in the hit series — because I actually lived it. Long before Wayward became a pop culture obsession, I attended CEDU, the original “therapeutic boarding school” that inspired this world. I graduated from its first campus, endured its methods, and witnessed firsthand how a program built on healing was actually rooted in Synanon, a 1960s cult known for psychological control and emotiona...