'Supergirl' Actor's Aunt Denies Daughter is In Gay Conversion Facility

The mother of the Texas teen, whose celebrity cousin drew attention to the GoFundMe campaign set up to free her from a "pray the gay away" facility, is denying that her lesbian daughter is undergoing gay conversion therapy in a lock-up Christian boarding school.

The Internet blew up this week when "Supergirl" actor Jeremy Jordan posted an appeal on social media to donate to a GoFundMe page set up to help free his cousin Sarah, 17, from a Christian counseling facility to "cure" her of her homosexuality. The fund earned over half of the campaign's $100,000 goal in a matter of days.

"I can't believe beautiful, smart, incredible kids like my cousin Sarah are still being told that being gay is wrong," Jordan wrote on Facebook Sunday. "But it's worse than that for Sarah... She's been placed at a remote boarding facility to help 'pray away the gay' for a year with no communication to the outside world."

However, in an interview with the Austin American-Statesman the teen's mother is refuting claims that her daughter was sent to the the Heartlight Ministries facility in Longview, Texas for gay conversion therapy.

"My daughter would be heartbroken that she is being misrepresented this way," the mother told the American-Statesman. "It has nothing to do with her sexuality."

But the legal filing says otherwise.

According to papers, Sarah's father and the family's pastor admitted that the goal of sending her to Heartlight was to change her sexual orientation. Her She was reportedly admitted a week after she took her girlfriend to the prom

According to the American-Statesman, Sarah's parents argue the opposite in court filings, saying they placed Sarah "in a therapeutic setting to help her with issues of depression, self-harm, drug use, and behavioral issues." Assuming Heartlight is anti-gay just because it is Christian is "absolutely repugnant," their plea says.

Sarah's parents claim the teen contemplated killing herself last year. In a lengthy suicide letter addressed to her girlfriend, Sarah allegedly wrote of feeling like a disappointment to her parents and "when they find out how much I love you it will get worse." But she asks that her parents be told how much she loves them and that "this isn't their fault."

Weeks before the teen was sent to Heartlight, she wrote on Twitter that her parents had forbidden her to go to the prom with her girlfriend. In a tweet, she urged her friends to "be ready at all times during prom to form a human wall."

Although Heartlight Ministries is not officially a gay conversion facility, information on the organization's website shows a less than accepting view on homosexuality.

"A parent can help a daughter, if she is willing and wanting to make a clean break, by allowing her to live away from her current scene,�with relatives or at�a place like Heartlight," wrote Mark Gregston, the organization's founder, who dedicated an entire page of the institution's website to "Teen Girls and Sexual Identity."

Those who attend Heartlight are reportedly cut off from the outside world. According to the institution's website, students are allowed only one phone call per week with their parents, which staffers can monitor and choose to end. Parents are allowed to visit only once a month, also at the staff's discretion. Staffers decide whether students can send or receive mail from people other than their parents.