Generation fanatics most effective not too long ago discovered that Bethany Joy Lenz used to be in a cult for 10 years, the actress says it wasn’t a invisible at the eager of One Tree Hill.

“It was open with them—it was the whisper behind the scenes, like ‘You know, she’s in a cult,'” she informed Variety in an interview printed Aug. 10. “For a while, they were all trying to save me and rescue me, which is lovely and so amazing to be cared about in that way. But I was very stubborn. I was really committed to what I believed were the best choices I could make.” 

Actually, Lenz mentioned that her loyalty to the cult, which she didn’t title, took a toll on her skilled relationships.

“The nature of a group like that is isolation,” she defined, “they have to make you distrust everyone around you so that the only people you trust are, first and foremost, the leadership and then, people within the group if the leadership approves of them, and isn’t in the middle of pitting you against each other, which happens all the time also.”

And Lenz famous that nature “built a deep wedge of distrust between” her and the solid and workforce. 

“As much as I loved them and cared about them,” she persevered, “there was a fundamental thought: If I’m in pain, if I’m suffering, I can’t go to any of these people. So you feel incredibly lonely.”