{"id":25828,"date":"2023-07-11T19:01:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/theres-a-lot-to-tell-bethany-joy-lenz-reveals-she-spent-10-years-in-a-cult\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T19:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:01:30","slug":"theres-a-lot-to-tell-bethany-joy-lenz-reveals-she-spent-10-years-in-a-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/theres-a-lot-to-tell-bethany-joy-lenz-reveals-she-spent-10-years-in-a-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"&apos;There&apos;s a lot to tell!&apos; Bethany Joy Lenz reveals she spent 10 years in a cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-07-11\" datetime=\"1689102090\" pubdate=\"\">11 July 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bethany Joy Lenz spent 10 years in a cult. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Bethany Joy Lenz spent 10 years in a cult<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018One Tree Hill\u2019 actress, 42, opened up about her past for the first time on the Monday (10.07.23) episode of her \u2018Drama Queens\u2019 podcast, and said she would love to finish a book she has been writing about the ordeal and the decade of \u201crecovery\u201d it sparked.<\/p>\n<p>She told her former \u2018One Tree Hill\u2019 co-stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/sophia-bush\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,sophia-bush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sophia Bush<\/a> and Hilarie Burton Morgan, both 41, on the podcast: \u201cI would love to write about my experience, you know, I was in a cult for 10 years. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat would be a really valuable experience to write about, and the recovery \u2013 10 years of recovery after that. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, there\u2019s a lot to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nBethany added her \u201cADHD has made it really difficult over the years\u201d to complete her book. <\/p>\n<p>\nBut she insisted she is \u201creally commit to putting it all together\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\nShe added: \u201cI would love to write about my experience. The pressure of getting it right and everything having to be exactly real and all the people that are involved, and also I don\u2019t 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. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAlso, I don\u2019t 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.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nBethany, who has daughter Maria Rose, 12, with ex-husband Michael Galeotti, 38, also hinted she wants to use her music as a creative outlet to expel pain from her past. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe trio have often delved into difficult subjects on the podcast, and a November 2022 episode featured Sophia and Hilarie claiming they were coerced into doing a sexy 2006 Maxim shoot by 57-year-old \u2018One Tree Hill\u2019 creator Mark Schwahn. <\/p>\n<p>\nSophia said: \u201cAt that time, I said, \u2018No, I don\u2019t want to do this,\u2019 and I was told I had to.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nThe actress also claimed she did not want to be on the set of the teen drama because it was \u201cnot a safe place for her\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\nFive years after \u2018One Tree Hill\u2019 finished in 2012, a total of 18 women who worked on the show (including the four actors named above), came forward in a letter to Variety to accuse Mark of sexual harassment and he has never responded to the allegations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/lot-tell-bethany-joy-lenz-reveals-spent-10-years-cult-1381895.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 July 2023 Bethany Joy Lenz spent 10 years in a cult. Bethany Joy Lenz spent 10 years in a cult The \u2018One Tree Hill\u2019 actress, 42, opened up about her past for the first time on the Monday (10.07.23) episode of her \u2018Drama Queens\u2019 podcast, and said she would love to finish a book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1098,2517,2518,1097],"class_list":{"0":"post-25828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-bethany-joy-lenz","9":"tag-hilarie-burton-morgan","10":"tag-mark-schwahn","11":"tag-sophia-bush"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}