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Speaker 1: What gets you to believe in something, and I mean really,

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Speaker 1: really believe to the point that you'd be willing to

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Speaker 1: travel thousands of miles and put your faith, even your

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Speaker 1: own body on the line for it. Desperate, that's what

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Speaker 1: I was weighing, freaking eighty pounds with a child to raise.

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Speaker 2: We went to multiple doctors. They couldn't figure out what

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Speaker 2: was actually the.

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Speaker 3: Problem, a danger. Nobody told me they were going to

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Speaker 3: cure my father.

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Speaker 1: No doctor, neurosurgeon, but he said evolved with also, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to cure your father, and I believed it. How

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Speaker 1: long are you willing to hold that belief until you

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Speaker 1: question the whole thing? As they would say, either I

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Speaker 1: believed in him or I believed in death March. I

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Speaker 1: had to believe in him. Joelte Cheeda de Fadia, better

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Speaker 1: known as John of God, is a Brazilian spiritual healer

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Speaker 1: who over five decades grew into one of the most

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Speaker 1: famous healers in the world.

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Speaker 2: He had healed the wives of minister's presidents and honors

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Speaker 2: of big companies. This is real. This guy's actually doing

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Speaker 2: surgery and it's a miracle. I never believe that miracle

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Speaker 2: was real until that point.

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Speaker 3: You had literally thousands of people in what milling around

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Speaker 3: and everyone tells you how they've been saved by this person.

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Speaker 3: After a while, I was like, well, can all these

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Speaker 3: people be wrong?

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Speaker 1: But while he drew thousands of followers who claimed he

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Speaker 1: cured their cancer or helped them walk again, over time

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Speaker 1: a darker side began to reveal itself. One of the

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Speaker 1: reason why I never went to the police is because

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Speaker 1: I saw at least five or six men with guns

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Speaker 1: everywhere he went. It was clear to me, like to

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Speaker 1: close your mouth'll open your mouth and say anything from

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Speaker 1: exactly right. Media and add media. This is Two Faced

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Speaker 1: John of God. I'm executive producer and host Martina Castro,

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Speaker 1: and over the course of the next six episodes, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you how this man painted himself as a gifted healer,

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Speaker 1: but as his power and influence grew, he used it

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Speaker 1: to lead a double life, one driven by intimidation, greed,

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Speaker 1: and sexual assault.

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Speaker 3: It's very difficult and it's very also lonely. One small

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Speaker 3: person against God.

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