Bethany Joy Lenz’s Experience With Entering and Leaving a “Cult” on One Tree Hill
Bethany’s involvement in the group eventually drew attention from her
One Tree Hill
castmates, who showed concern. One of her costars,
Craig Sheffer
, even directly asked her if she was in a cult while they were filming the CW series.
Bethany reassured him, saying, “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!’”
It wasn’t until nearly a decade later that Bethany began to realize that something was amiss in the community. After marrying a fellow member and having her daughter,
Rosie
, in 2011, she decided to leave a year later. (Bethany divorced
Pearson
Michael Galeotti
in 2012, after five years of marriage.)