One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz reveals details of cult she was in ‘for 10 years’

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One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz has revealed extra details concerning the decade she spent in a cult.

The actor, 42, is greatest recognized for her position as Haley James Scott on the hit Noughties teen drama, starring alongside Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton, James Laferty and Chad Michael Murray. The sequence ran for 9 seasons, from 2003 to 2012.

Last July, Lenz stated on her podcast Drama Queens that she “was in a cult for 10 years” and that she hoped to put in writing a e book about her experiences. “That would be a really valuable experience to write about, and the recovery – 10 years of recovery after that. So there’s a lot to tell.”

That e book is about to be revealed by Simon & Schuster later this 12 months below the title Dinner for Vampires. It is subtitled: “Life on a cult TV show – while also in an actual cult!”

The official synopsis states: “In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast as one of the leads on the hit drama One Tree Hill.

“Her career was about to take off, but her personal life was slowly beginning to unravel. What none of the show’s millions of fans knew, hidden even from her costars, was her secret double life in a cult.

“An only child who often had to fend for herself and always wanted a place to belong, Lenz found the safe haven she’d been searching for in a Bible study group with other Hollywood creatives. However, the group soon morphed into something more sinister—a slowly woven web of manipulation, abuse, and fear under the guise of a church covenant called The Big House Family.”

It goes on to say that Lenz was inspired by cult leaders to surrender her autonomy, and that she ultimately relocated to their compound in the Pacific Northwest.

There, a domineering minister allegedly satisfied Lenz to marry one of his sons whereas steadily stealing tens of millions of {dollars} from her tv earnings.

It was solely after Lenz turned a mom that she determined to go away the cult, in order to spare her baby from rising up below the group’s management.

Lenz had beforehand stated concerning the e book that she felt the “pressure of getting it right and everything having to be exactly real and all the people that are involved”.

“Also, I don’t know how much I can say because there are still people and legal things in place that make it more complicated for the timing of that,” she added. “But I do write. I write all the time.”

Dinner for Vampires shall be revealed on 22 October.