F?ans of One Tree Hill will keep in mind Bethany Pleasure Lenz greatest as Haley James Scott on the cult TV present, however few – if any – knew that what filming the sequence she was additionally in a ultra-controlling non secular cult.
Now ?Lenz has opened up concerning the “double life” she led in the course of the 2000s and confessed she did not realise she had been lured right into a cult for years.
Her ?One Tree Hill co-stars, then again, knew one thing was unsuitable early within the piece.
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“I might see it on their faces,” she informed Individuals of her colleagues’ reactions when she spoke about her state of affairs.
“However I might justify it, like, ‘I could not presumably be in a cult. It is simply that I’ve received entry to a relationship with God and folks in a approach that everyone else needs, however they do not know learn how to get it.'”
When Craig Sheffer, who performed Keith Scott, confronted Lenz and informed her outright that it was a cult, she insisted he was unsuitable.?
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“I used to be like, ‘No, no, no. Cults are bizarre. Cults are folks in robes chanting loopy issues and consuming Kool-Assist,” she stated. “That is not what we do!'”
Lenz turned concerned with the ?ultra-Christian group after becoming a member of a bible examine group in Los Angeles when she moved there to additional her appearing profession.
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Having grown up as an Evangelical Christian, she discovered a way of belonging with the group. Then a travelling pastor she referred to as ‘Les’ began coming to the group.
Issues started “morphing” when he inspired members to maneuver to a home in Idaho, the place they lived in an insulated, commune-like setting.
Even then, Lenz did not realise one thing wasn’t proper.
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It wasn’t till 2012, one yr after she welcomed daughter Rosie together with her then-husband, who was additionally a part of the cult, that Lenz determined she needed to get out.
?Leaving the wedding and the cult was a life-changing second and one which left her having to rebuild her life from the bottom up.
Now she’s sharing her story her memoir Dinner for Vampires Life on a Cult TV Present (Whereas additionally in an Precise Cult!) within the hopes of serving to different folks in comparable conditions.
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