{"id":13048,"date":"2024-03-08T03:55:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/bethany-joy-lenz-to-detail-long-recovery-after-escaping-cult\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T03:55:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T22:25:26","slug":"bethany-joy-lenz-to-detail-long-recovery-after-escaping-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/bethany-joy-lenz-to-detail-long-recovery-after-escaping-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethany Joy Lenz to detail long recovery after escaping cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"article-byline\"> By <a class=\"reporter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/by\/nicole-vandyke\"> Nicole VanDyke<\/a><span class=\"quiet\">, CP Reporter <time datetime=\"Thursday, March 07, 2024\" itemprop=\"datePublished dateModified\">Thursday, March 07, 2024<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<figure data-index=\"0\" class=\"img-box align-center center\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><picture width=\"700\" height=\"502\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/15\/21\/152146_w_700_502.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/15\/21\/152146_w_700_502.png\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" alt=\"Actress Bethany Joy Lenz \" width=\"700\" height=\"502\"\/><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\"><span class=\"photo-des\">Actress Bethany Joy Lenz <\/span> | <span class=\"credit\">Screengrab: Access Hollywood\/YouTube <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bethany Joy Lenz, best known by many for her role on the teen soap &#8220;One Tree Hill,&#8221; is set to reveal details about how she got mired in a cult and eventually escaped in a memoir to be released later this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C38Nh9wO0wC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> post announcing the presale for her debut memoir, <em>Dinner for Vampires<\/em>, the actress said last week the book would detail &#8220;the decade I spent in an abusive, high-demand group (aka, cult).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m grateful I get to share my story, my way. It\u2019s a story of forgiveness and a roadmap to how manipulation works, with heartache and humor along the way,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;We all make mistakes and I hope<em> Dinner for Vampires<\/em> reminds you that, no matter what weird roads you\u2019ve gone down, you\u2019re not alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section class=\"inline-newsletter-mar24 design\" id=\"inline-mar24\" action=\"\/newsletter\/inline-mar24.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"graphic\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/newsletter\/photo-newsletter.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"txt\">\n<h2 class=\"title\">Get Our Latest News for FREE<\/h2>\n<p>Subscribe to get daily\/weekly email with the top stories (plus special offers!) from The Christian Post. Be the first to know.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>The memoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dinner-Vampires-Bethany-Joy-Lenz\/dp\/1668067307\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slated<\/a> for release in October, details Lenz\u2019s life as she navigated working in the entertainment industry while minders from the cult, known as the Big House Family, accompanied her on set.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lenz also relocated to the cults compound in the Pacific Northwest and married one of the minister&#8217;s sons. She spent over a decade with the cult until she got pregnant and had a baby. Becoming a mother, she said, gave her the strength to leave, she told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/tv\/features\/bethany-joy-lenz-cult-one-tree-hill-interview-1235692328\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many people are being misled in the name of a God I love and cherish,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/bethany-joy-lenz-identifies-alleged-cult-new-memoir-8603042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201cI feel I have a responsibility to speak up for anyone willing to hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On an episode of the &#8220;Drama Queens&#8221; podcast last year, Lenz, joined by former co-stars Hilarie Burton Morgan, Sophia Bush and guest Michaela McManus, discussed her journey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That would be a really valuable experience to write about, and the recovery \u2014 10 years of recovery after that. So there&#8217;s a lot to tell,&#8221; Lenz said, adding that there are things about the cult that she cannot mention due to ongoing litigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also, I don&#8217;t know how much I can say because there are still people and legal things in place that make it more complicated for the timing of that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Lenz shared her heartbrokenness over the death of notable author and Pastor Timothy Keller, who died at the age of 72 on May 19, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis man changed my life. The only reason I\u2019m still a Christian today is because, 10 years ago, after many years of faith being used against me as a tool of manipulation, Tim Keller taught me how to re-build my faith using reason and logic. A belief system that fully engages my mind while still leaving room for wonder and mystery,\u201d Lenz said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CsaI6sAu9Sz\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram post <\/a>in May 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so much more confident and secure in my faith now than I\u2019ve ever been, because of Tim Keller\u2019s teachings and the relief they gave me to trust again and fall in love with a Jesus I never knew,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/tim-keller-changed-my-life-5-remembrances-of-late-pastor.html?page=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continued<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis is a trustworthy, humble, researched, rational and compassionate voice that God once used to bring me out of a pit of despair, walk me through intense healing and into the glorious freedom of the real Christ. I will forever be grateful for the day I walked into Redeemer Presbyterian church on the Upper East Side in 1999. Thank you for everything, Tim. I\u2019m so glad for you to rest in His arms.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article_credit\">\n<p><em>Nicole VanDyke is a reporter for The Christian Post.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/bethany-joy-lenz-to-detail-long-recovery-after-escaping-cult.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nicole VanDyke, CP Reporter Thursday, March 07, 2024 Actress Bethany Joy Lenz | Screengrab: Access Hollywood\/YouTube Bethany Joy Lenz, best known by many for her role on the teen soap &#8220;One Tree Hill,&#8221; is set to reveal details about how she got mired in a cult and eventually escaped in a memoir to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}