I don’t know anything about what Dan Brown has said. I only know that my friend considered herself a nun, and was kept in a convent against her will, and drugged when she tried to escape. She *did* escape, in a drugged state, to a friend’s home. She eventually made it to the States, free from that group.
This is **first hand** information, not something I read somewhere or something a friend of a friend told me. This is Maria’s personal experience in the convent-like home she stayed in in Latin America.
Perhaps you weren’t personally aware of the abuse that takes place within such Opus Dei homes.
One anecdotal report of abuse doesn't make me "aware of the abuse that takes place in such homes". One report is just that, one report.