Bethany Joy Lenz Reveals How Her Daughter Influenced Her Decision to Leave Cult After 10 Years: ‘We Gotta Get Out’
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Bethany Joy Lenz is opening up about her experience in an ultra-Christian cult — and how her daughter motivated her to escape after a full decade.
On Tuesday, Oct. 22, the One Tree Hill star, 43, joined Good Morning America to discuss her new memoir Dinner for Vampires Life on a Cult TV Show (While also in an Actual Cult!), in which she shares the full story of her time spent deeply devoted to a small, ultra-Christian group led by a shady pastor in Idaho, who controlled her career, life choices and, eventually, her bank account.
While a part of the group, Lenz married musician Michael Galeotti in 2005 and welcomed one child, daughter Rosie, in 2011. The couple divorced in 2012, the same year the actress decided to escape the cult.
“I left because of my daughter,” she shared on GMA. “I left because it was time.”
