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On the brand-new episode of Below Deck, Cat Baugh opened regarding her “trauma” from her time in a religious cult.
“It is quite evident that Cat is a very sensitive soul. I feel like she might want to be heard a bit more,” Fraser Olender informed the electronic cameras on Monday, February 19, after discovering Cat had problem adapting to the indoor group. “I never had someone to look after me in this scary industry. And so I want to be that for someone else.”
Cat consequently stunned Fraser when she disclosed that Baugh wasn’t her genuine surname.
“I was in foster care. My dad passed away when I was nine from Multiple sclerosis. And then my mom passed away when I was 13 just in her sleep. It was very sudden and no [they don’t know what it was],” she discussed. “So me and my brother were thrown into the system and separated.”
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According to Cat, she was taken care of by a regulating team of individuals, including, “The family I lived with I don’t talk to because they were like a cult religion.”
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Cat’s foster family members wouldn’t enable her to stay in contact with her bro.
“We were [in the same state]. But they wouldn’t even let me talk to him because he wasn’t religious,” she proceeded. “It was that extreme of a religion that they wouldn’t even let me speak to my own biological brother.”
In a confessional, Cat supplied even more details regarding her hard home life, sharing, “So I grew up in Orange County, California, with a foster family in a place called Yorba Linda. From 13 to 18, I was a part of this family’s culture and life and dynamic.”
Cat stated she really felt as if her foster family members didn’t really respect her wellness.
“Everything was for praise in the church and I felt like I was just a prop to them,” she kept in mind. “It was almost like they wanted to forget my past life. I felt so suppressed and I never stood up for myself.”
It wasn’t till Cat transformed 18 that she had the ability to take control of her life.
“Because I wanted to continue a relationship with my biological brother, they were like, ‘No. We don’t support that,’” she proceeded. “Once I turned 18, I decided to choose my brother and choose my life. I decided to live for me and that’s when I became the most independent. Now me and my brother are so close. He’s like my best friend.”
Below Deck audiences have actually seen Cat battle to discover her put on the indoor group because she signed up with the franchise business in January 2024. Earlier this period, Cat wound up up in arms with fellow stews Barbie Pascual and Xandi Olivier. She supplied even more details throughout Monday’s episode on just how her youth impacted her job values.
“Just growing up with a lot of trauma, it makes you very insecure about yourself. The foster family I was with did a lot of things that made me feel like I was just not perfect,” she remembered. “You had to be perfect. So how people view my work ethic is very important to me. I don’t want to be viewed as weak. It literally makes me have major anxiety.”
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Cat wasn’t the just one to share stunning details regarding her past. In his very own confessional, Fraser disclosed the barriers he dealt with on his method to coming to be a primary guardian.
“My first job on a boat, I was a crew mess stew. Which means that I was a crew member to the crew. We are talking bottom of the barrel bottom. On my first day, the chief engineer had found out that I was gay and was very homophobic,” Fraser discussed. “Whilst I was washing dishes in the sink, he poured his boiling hot tea that I just made for him over my hands and that was my first day in yachting.”
He proceeded: “And I looked at him and I told myself, ‘Keep f—king going. Because one day, none of this will f—king matter. And you are going to be at the top. And one day you will get him fired.’ And one day, I did.”
Below Deck period 11 broadcasts on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET. New episodes will certainly stream the following day on Peacock.
