Kaitlyn Bernard on Portraying Rachel Jeffs in Lifetime’s “Surviving My Father, The Rachel Jeffs Story”

Actress Kaitlyn Bernard recently sat down to talk about her powerful performance as Rachel Jeffs in the Lifetime film Surviving My Father, The Rachel Jeffs Story , based on Jeffs’ memoir Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs. The movie explores Rachel’s harrowing journey of survival and resilience after escaping from the control of her father, the notorious FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, and the trauma of growing up in a world built on fear and manipulation.

Bernard shared that she first became aware of the FLDS community when Warren Jeffs was on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, but it wasn’t until she read Rachel’s memoir and the film’s script that she began to understand the depth of what Jeffs endured. “My eyes were completely opened to this world th