{"id":1998182,"date":"2023-08-11T17:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-tree-hill-actress-says-her-co-stars-tried-to-rescue-her-from-cult\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T17:37:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:37:04","slug":"one-tree-hill-actress-says-her-co-stars-tried-to-rescue-her-from-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-tree-hill-actress-says-her-co-stars-tried-to-rescue-her-from-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress from &#8216;One Tree Hill&#8217; claims co-stars attempted her rescue from cult."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fone-tree-hill-actress-says-her-co-stars-tried-to-rescue-her-from-cult%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1998182&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Actress Bethany Joy Lenz Opens Up About Her Experience in a Cult<\/h2>\n<p>In a recent interview with Variety magazine, &#8220;One Tree Hill&#8221; actress Bethany Joy \u2062Lenz \u200brevealed that her co-stars on the popular show tried to rescue her from a cult she was involved in for a decade. Despite their efforts, Lenz admits she was &#8220;very stubborn&#8221; and committed to what she believed was best.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bethany Joy Lenz is ready to tell her story. The actor, best \u200cknown for her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-u-s-reaches-a-tragic-milestone-but-good-news-might-be-on-the-way\/\" title=\"The U.S. Reaches A Tragic Milestone, But Good News Might Be On The Way\">main role<\/a> on \u201cOne Tree Hill,\u201d \u200dis in \u200bthe \u200cprocess of writing \u200da book\u2062 about her experience in a cult.<\/p>\n<p>Read her interview \u2062with Variety: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FFsOLPK1Il\">https:\/\/t.co\/FFsOLPK1Il<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uGtohzZgbX\">pic.twitter.com\/uGtohzZgbX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1689762052397744129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lenz describes how the nature \u200bof the cult fostered isolation, creating a deep wedge of distrust between her and her \u2062cast and crew. The group&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-tree-hill-actress-says-her-co-stars-tried-to-rescue-her-from-cult\/\" title=\"Actress from 'One Tree Hill' claims co-stars attempted her rescue from cult.\">tactics involved making members distrust<\/a> everyone except the leadership and approved individuals within the group.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenges she faced, Lenz believes that being on the show and the demands of the \u200dseries ultimately saved her\u200d life. The \u2063spatial separation between her life in North Carolina and the cult \u200bmade a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/diary-of-death-a-retrospective-review-of-american-crisis-by-gov-andrew-cuomo\/\" title=\"DIARY OF DEATH: A Retrospective Review of \u2018American Crisis\u2019 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo\">significant difference<\/a> in her awakening.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK \u200dHERE\u200b TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lenz is currently \u200bwriting a book about her experience in the cult, a project she started during the pandemic. She\u2062 hopes that sharing \u200cher story \u2063will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-decries-us-covid-aid-to-taiwan\/\" title=\"China Decries US COVID Aid to Taiwan\">bring healing<\/a> to others who may have gone through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/acting-capitol-police-chief-says-protocols-were-not-followed-on-jan-6\/\" title=\"Acting Capitol Police Chief says protocols were not followed on Jan. 6\">similar situations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What good are our painful experiences if we just lock them away and pretend like everything&#8217;s perfect? That&#8217;s not doing anybody any good,&#8221; Lenz said.<\/p>\n<p>It took Lenz \u2063a while to open up about her experience due to feelings of shame and her reluctance to identify as a victim. However, she now recognizes the importance of speaking\u2062 out and helping \u2063others who may be struggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethany Joy Lenz, known for her role in &#8220;One Tree Hill,&#8221; revealed that her co-stars attempted to save her from the decade-long cult she was involved in. Despite their efforts, the 42-year-old actress admitted to being resistant. Lenz shared this revelation with Variety magazine, acknowledging that her friends from the show recognized her distress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1998183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}