Bethany Pleasure Lenz Says OTH Costars Tried to “Save” Her From Cult

Whereas followers solely just lately realized that Bethany Pleasure Lenz was in a cult for 10 years, the actress says it wasn’t a secret on the set of One Tree Hill.

“It was open with them—it was the whisper behind the scenes, like ‘You recognize, she’s in a cult,'” she advised Selection in an interview revealed Aug. 10. “For some time, they had been all attempting to save lots of me and rescue me, which is gorgeous and so wonderful to be cared about in that approach. However I used to be very cussed. I used to be actually dedicated to what I believed had been the most effective decisions I might make.” 

In reality, Lenz stated that her dedication to the cult, which she didn’t identify, took a toll on her skilled relationships.

“The character of a gaggle like that’s isolation,” she defined, “they need to make you mistrust everybody round you in order that the one individuals you belief are, at the beginning, the management after which, individuals throughout the group if the management approves of them, and is not in the course of pitting you towards one another, which occurs on a regular basis additionally.”

And Lenz famous that nature “constructed a deep wedge of mistrust between” her and the forged and crew. 

“As a lot as I cherished them and cared about them,” she continued, “there was a basic thought: If I am in ache, if I am struggling, I am unable to go to any of those individuals. So you’re feeling extremely lonely.”