While in a cult for 10 years, Bethany Joy Lenz justified the religious group’s behavior but instead ‘questioned my marriage’
When Bethany Joy Lenz started to question parts of her life, her “justification” for being in a cult started to crumble.
That was the “rationalization” the former One Tree Hill star used during her 10-year stint “growing up in the Evangelical Church.”“My parents were wonderful people with a lot of their own stuff to deal with and they had me very young,” she continued. “It was just a gap … of all the wonderful things they did as parents, this was a gap in parenting — like we all have as parents.”
“I was very young, I didn't question the group, I questioned my marriage,” she explained. “For me, being involved in something like that where there's — I don't know that I like the term ‘brainwashing’ — I think it's more just such high control that we convince ourselves of things all the time.” “The stakes were really high if I admitted that I was wrong, if I admitted there's holes in this, something's off,” Lenz told People. “The whole construct of everything else comes crumbling down, so I was not in a position to be able to question anything.'
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