It’s hard to believe that One Tree Hill first premiered almost 20 years ago!
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Bethany Joy Lenz will open up about her experience in a religious cult in her new memoir that is on the way.
The 42-year-old Hallmark Channel star is opening up about the memoir in a new interview and revealed how being on One Tree Hill saved her from her life in the cult.
“It was the entirety of my time on One Tree Hill,” Bethany told Variety. “I got involved in something that seemed very rote. I grew up in a Christian home where Wednesday night Bible studies were very common. I think that there’s a lot of people that can resonate with that. And I just went to another one. I moved to a new state, moved to a new city, and I went to another Wednesday night Bible study and that’s all it was to me. But the friendships seemed deeper, more vulnerable somehow, as time went on. The person that was brought into the leadership position was sociopathic and most of us who were involved were in our early 20s.”
Bethany also talked about the cast and crew knowing that she was in the cult.
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“It was open with them — it was the whisper behind the scenes, like ‘You know, she’s in a cult.’ For a while, they were all trying to save me and rescue me, which is lovely and so amazing to be cared about in that way. But I was very stubborn. I was really committed to what I believed were the best choices I could make,” Bethany said.
She continued, “Legally, I don’t think they’re allowed to be called cults, they’re ‘high demand groups.’ The nature of a group like that is isolation; they have to make you distrust everyone around you so that the only people you trust are, first and foremost, the leadership and then, people within the group if the leadership approves of them, and isn’t in the middle of pitting you
It’s hard to believe that One Tree Hill first premiered almost 20 years ago!
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“Drama Queens” podcast, which she hosts with former “One Tree Hill” costars Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz. In the episode titled “Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace,” Schwahn plays the role of Max. In addition, there was also physical contact between his character and Burton’s on-screen alter-ego, Peyton Sawyer.“I wasn’t speaking to him in real life, and so he wrote himself into the episode of me hugging him.
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https://t.co/F7qO8RynN0 #OTH @Represent pic.twitter.com/WX7LLc89K4— Chad Michael Murray (@ChadMMurray) November 12, 2020Chad Michael Murray, who played Lucas Scott on “One Tree Hill,” went through many changes since his days on the show. Murray left the series at the end of Season 6, but returned to make a cameo in Season 9. Since then, he and his wife, Sarah Roemer, have welcomed three children, the newest a baby girl in 2023.
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It’s been over a decade since One Tree Hill aired its final season in 2012, and its talented cast of stars is all grown up.
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Bethany Joy Lenz is looking back at a dark time in her life and hoping to use her experiences to help guide others and to reclaim her own happiness.Lenz recently say down with ET's Nischelle Turner to talk about revelations she made last month about how she spent a decade in an unnamed religious cult, and how she managed to finally leave the cult and recover from the emotional trauma.Now, Lenz is working on her memoirs as part of her healing process, which she thinks might be able to shed light on the issue and help others stuck in similar predicaments.«There are a lot of people that get caught up in things that are abusive and bad for them and we all have these weird pockets inside of us that are vacancies that are susceptible to something from an outside source that's gonna take advantage of us in some way,» Lenz shared. «I think going through that, finding those places in me, and then being able to… put that on paper, and talk with other people who have been through that, [it's] been very cathartic and meaningful.»«I just really hope it helps somebody,» she added.
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Bethany Joy Lenz is sharing new details on her time in a cult — and the role her One Tree Hill co-stars played!
Bethany Joy Lenz' "One Tree Hill" co-stars attempted to "rescue" her from the cult she was a part of for 10 years and the alleged "spiritual abuse" she faced. "It was open with them. It was the whisper behind the scenes, like, 'You know, she’s in a cult,'" Lenz told Variety in a new interview.
Bethany Joy Lenz is grateful that the cast and crew of One Tree Hill tried to get her out of a cult she belonged to while filming the show.
Bethany Joy Lenz is opening up about her time in a cult. In a new interview with, the 42-year-old actress reveals that her castmates on tried to get her out of the cult she was a part of while starring in the teen drama.Lenz, who joined the unnamed cult «within a year or two» of the show's 2003 premiere, notes that she was «open» with her co-stars — who included Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton Morgan, Chad Michael Murray and James Lafferty — about the group with which she was involved, a topic she first discussed on her podcast in July.«It was the whisper behind the scenes, like 'You know, she's in a cult,'» Lenz recalls.
Bethany Joy Lenz is working on what promises to be a bombshell memoir, expected to arrive early next year.
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