'I was expecting a happy place - it was hell on earth.'
- Hoda Muthana joined ISIS in 2014 after embracing extremist ideology while living with her family in Alabama
- She was born in Hackensack, New Jersey but her father was a diplomat which means she is not an American citizen and cannot return
- Muthana is one of the stars of a 90-minute documentary The Return: Life After ISIS, which premiered this week at the South by Southwest film festival
- Muthana now says that ISIS was not an Islamic group but a 'cult that wanted to use Islam to gain more power and more people and more money'
- Speaking about why she got recruited to join ISIS, Muthana says in the film that she 'wanted to feel useful' and blamed 'manipulative propaganda'
- She said that she had a 'meltdown' when Donald Trump tweeted that he had effectively banned her from returning to the country she considers home
- Muthana, 25, said that the tough language left her feeling that 'I didn't know what would happen to me'
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