![]() ![]() Īs Jessop relates, a rift in her religious community at about the time she completed middle school led to the leaders pulling children out of the local high school. She spent most of her childhood in Colorado City, Arizona. The autobiography describes a year-long stint in Salt Lake City, Utah, which gave her a taste of the world outside her religious community. Jessop describes her relationship to her parents as emotionally distant, with her father dominating her mother, and her mother taking out her anger on the children with such regularity that the children soon devised a strategy to get their beatings "out of the way" in the mornings. Her father became a polygamist when he married his wife's niece when Carolyn was a child. She is a relative of Winston Blackmore, leader of a Canadian polygamous group and also a relative of his American-born Uncle John Horne Blackmore, first leader of what became the Social Credit Party of Canada. She is a sixth-generation descendant of a polygamous family, all of whom were faithful members of the FLDS church. ![]() Jessop was born Carolyn Blackmore and raised by her parents in Hildale, Utah, with her older sister and younger siblings. ![]() In 2008, actress Katherine Heigl announced she had contracted to produce and star in a feature film based on the memoir. She followed its publication with a book tour. It was published by the Broadway division of Random House. In 2007, she co-authored her book Escape with Laura Palmer, which chronicled her life in the FLDS organization, her adulthood and disillusionment, and her eventual flight. Subsequently, she sued for custody of her children, and in 2003 became "the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS." On April 21, 2003, when Jessop was 35, she left her husband's family and the FLDS church, fleeing to a safehouse in Salt Lake City. Carolyn Jessop now lives in the Salt Lake City area with her children. She is the cousin, by marriage, of Flora Jessop, another former FLDS member and advocate for abused children.
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