Bethany Joy Lenz defended being in a cult to her ‘One Tree Hill’ cast — and this co-star called her out
nypost.coma small, ultra-Christian group during her time starring on “One Tree Hill.” She told PEOPLE in an interview published Monday that she defended being in the cult to the other actors on the show.“I could see it on their faces,” said Lenz, whose memoir, called “Dinner for Vampires,” comes out Oct.
22.“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.Lenz said that co-star Craig Sheffer, who played Keith Scott, once outright told her she was in a cult.“I was like, ‘No, no, no.
Cults are weird. Cults are people in robes chanting crazy things and drinking Kool-Aid. That’s not what we do!'” she explained.Lenz joined the religious group after meeting the lead pastor at a Bible study that she joined when she moved to Los Angeles at age 20.“I had always been looking for a place to belong,” she said, explaining that the group initially involved singing, worshipping, and having conversations about God and life’s meaning.
However, Lenz started getting suspicious when a visiting pastor (who she called “Les”) 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.
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