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ST. GEORGE — Katherine Kubler didn't set out to be the focal point of a documentary that has been among the top three shows on Netflix in the last two weeks.
But the reason Kubler ended up becoming the subject, and not just the director, of "The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping" is because she lived it.
"I didn't want to be in it. I just wanted to make it about the subject. I was really hesitant to include my personal story for a long time," Kubler said. "And then I was like, 'Oh, shoot, I'm going to have to be in this documentary now.'"
Kubler had to endure what she said is her own trauma and PTSD to document the troubled teen center industry in the series' three one-hour episodes. She says she's amazed to hear when people say they "binge" all three episodes in one night.
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