Bethany Joy Lenz starred in ‘One Tree Hill’ for 9 seasons. She said that she lost $2 million of her TV show earnings to a Christian cult.
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“One Tree Hill” star Bethany Joy Lenz said that the cult she was part of for 10 years took $2 million from her checking account, leaving her with $220,000 and struggling to make ends meet.
Lenz wrote about her experience in the organization, which she refers to as the Big House Family, in her memoir “Dinner For Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!),” released Tuesday.
The actor is best known for playing Haley James Scott on all nine seasons of “One Tree Hill,” which aired on The CW from 2003 to 2012. The drama centered on half-brothers Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan Scott (James Lafferty) navigating high school and relationships in the fictional town of Tree Hill, North Carolina. “OTH” is widely regarded as one of the most iconic, quintessential TV shows of the early 2000s.
At the same time that Lenz starred in “OTH,” she was also part of the Big House Family organization. Throughout her memoir, she referred to the organization as a cult. In the author’s note, Lenz said that she changed identifying details of her experience “for clarity, brevity, or privacy,” including the names of individuals.
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