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Bethany Pleasure Lenz
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After revealing final yr that she was part of a cult for a decade, Bethany Joy Lenz is lastly naming the group she joined on the time.
When unveiling the duvet for her upcoming memoir Dinner for Vampires on Thursday, the cult that the One Tree Hill actress joined was additionally recognized: A church covenant referred to as The Huge Home Household.
“Being a author has been an amazing, non-public pleasure in my life since I used to be about 12,” she shared on Instagram. “This isn’t the primary e-book I assumed I’d write, publicly, however as tough as this subject material is to untangle, I’m grateful I get to share my story, my approach. It’s a narrative of forgiveness and a roadmap to how manipulation works, with heartache and humor alongside the way in which. All of us make errors and I hope Dinner for Vampires reminds you that, it doesn’t matter what bizarre roads you’ve gone down, you’re not alone.”
Writer Simon & Schuster describes the upcoming memoir as one which chronicles Lenz’s “secret double life in a cult.”
The writer’s description reads: “An solely baby who typically needed to fend for herself and at all times needed a spot to belong, Lenz discovered the secure haven she’d been trying to find in a Bible research group with different Hollywood creatives. Nonetheless, the group quickly morphed into one thing extra sinister—a slowly woven internet of manipulation, abuse and worry below the guise of a church covenant referred to as The Huge Home Household.”
“Piece by piece, Lenz started to provide away her autonomy, in the end relocating to the Household’s Pacific Northwest compound, overseen by a domineering minister who would persuade Lenz to marry one among his sons and steadily drained hundreds of thousands of her TV revenue with out her data,” the writer’s description continues. “Household ‘minders’ assigned to her on set, ‘Maoist battle session’–impressed conferences within the basement of a grimy home and common counseling with ‘Management’ had been simply a part of the ways used to maintain her loyal. Solely when she turned a mom did Lenz discover the braveness to depart and spare her baby from an identical destiny.”
In an look on Southern Residing’s podcast, Biscuits & Jam final yr, Lenz had opened up about being part of a cult all through the period of her time on the teenager drama, in addition to the assist she acquired from her co-stars when she walked away from it.
“I used to be a wise individual. I used to be a very good actor. You possibly can’t be a very good actor with out being good,” she stated. “You possibly can’t dissect a script with out with the ability to assess issues. However I had an enormous blind spot in my life — and everyone does — and mine was one thing that I used to be going to must work out alone.”
“I really feel like a whole lot of the folks there, whether or not consciously or subconsciously, knew that simply their presence and being an encouragement and letting me know that they nonetheless liked and cared about me regardless of the truth that I used to be a little bit bizarre, that made an enormous distinction. It made me really feel like there was security when it got here time for me to depart that group,” she continued.
Dinner for Vampires releases on Oct. 22.
