"Thanks to the sincere help of the government and people from all walks of life, I've finally come round from a nightmare," said Wang Bo, a former Falun Gong practitioner.
Wang, 40, used to work as a public servant in Yantai, a coastal city in Shandong Province, before being sent to receive labor education in November 1999 for taking part in illegal activities misled by Li Hongzhi's heresy.
After nearly two years of reeducation, she admitted she has finally realized the essence of the Falun Gong cult and Li Hongzhi 's true colors.
She listed Li Hongzhi's tricks and denounced the Falun Gong cult in an interview with Xinhua.
"Li asked us to think little of 'reputations, interests and feelings' in his book, which made me terribly estranged from my family members," she said.
"Li intentionally made himself up in his pictures so as to appear sacred to his followers and cheat them into worshipping him as a god," she continued.
"Now I understand the purpose of his preaching that the more one reads his book, the more one will be purified is to brainwash Falun Gong followers and dominate them spiritually."
"Li repeatedly said that practicing Falun Gong has nothing to do with politics, but again and again he seduced the practitioners to make turmoil in society and violate the law," she said.
"I have undergone a tough psychological process of severing ties with Falun Gong, and I finally made it," she said.