Vudu Dahl is one of the most intriguing characters on VH1's Black Ink Crew: Compton. As the show revealed, though, her life has been anything but picture perfect. Dahl was raised in a household that she compared to a cult — with 12 younger siblings, her mother, and her stepfather. Dahl explains in a Black Ink Crew promo that her family life was very strict. She was limited in what she could watch on TV and the music she could listen to, she rarely interacted with other children, and she was expected to stay at home and get married at a young age. "Growing up I definitely felt like I was in a cult. It was just very organized, very strict. Yeah, it was very strange," she says, adding that it was "military-style."  Dahl's hyper-religious family prayed a lot and even took money from her when she had her first full-time job. She describes asking her mother about getting her own place, but being told she should be married first. "There was no way out," Dahl laments. Eventually, she opted to live with her biological father, which actually added even more difficulty to her already tragic life. Vudu Dahl was 18 when she made the decision to live with her biological father, which was her way out of the cult-like family she grew up in with her mom and step-dad. Right off the bat, she expected things to be uncomfortable, as she had only met her biological dad one time and says she "didn't know him very well.