Bethany Joy Lenz said one of the other “One Tree Hill” actors told her she was in a cult — but she was still in denial.
“But I’d justify it, like, ‘I couldn’t possibly be in a cult. It’s just that I’ve got access to a relationship with God and people in a way that everybody else wants, but they don’t know how to get it,'” she recalled.'Grey's Anatomy' scribe who faked cancer would shave head and take 'puke breaks' to push lie, ex-colleague claims“I was like, ‘No, no, no. Cults are weird. Cults are people in robes chanting crazy things and drinking Kool-Aid.
However, Lenz started getting suspicious when a visiting pastor convinced members of the Bible study to move to a “Big House” in Idaho.“It still looked normal,” she said about the cult. “And then it just morphed. But by the time it started morphing, I was too far into the relationships to notice. Plus, I was so young.”
“The stakes were so high,” she said about leaving the cult. “They were my only friends. I was married into this group. I had built my entire life around it. If I admitted that I was wrong … everything else would come crumbling down.
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