This former cult member is helping 'deprogram' QAnon believers

When Diane Benscoter was 17, she met "the Messiah."

His name was Sun Myung Moon, the leader of a religious cult called the Unification Church. Benscoter joined "the Moonies," as Moon's followers came to be known, and spent the next five years of her life believing she'd found her purpose — even if she had to give her life for it.

"It was the most invigorating feeling that I had ever experienced. ...I suddenly knew what my life was about," Benscoter said. "And honestly, I don't know if I'll ever feel that much security, that much excitement again in my whole life."

That feeling may be impossible to replicate, but her time with the Unification Church did give Benscoter something to fight for: People who are being manipulated today like she once was.

For the "Moonies," it was all about Sun Myung Moon; for thousands of people today, it's "QAnon."