Bethany Pleasure Lenz. AFF-USA/Shutterstock
One Tree Hill alum Bethany Pleasure Lenz revealed she was in a cult for a decade, and she or he hopes that her expertise can ultimately assist others.
“I used to be in a cult for 10 years,” Lenz, 42, shared on the Monday, July 10, episode of iHeartRadio’s “Drama Queens” podcast. “That might be a very precious expertise to write down about, and the restoration — 10 years of restoration after that. So there’s loads to inform.”
The topic got here up as Lenz, who performed Haley James Scott on OTH from 2003 to 2012, and cohost Sophia Bush had been requested by visitor Michaela McManus in the event that they needed so as to add writer to their resumes. Their cohost Hilarie Burton Morgan already wrote her first memoir, The Rural Diaries, in 2020 along with her follow-up, Grimoire Woman, set to hit bookshelves on October 3.
Lenz mentioned she “for positive” needs to pen a e book in the future and already has some items written. “I feel the ADHD has made it actually troublesome over time to — I’ve a number of essays and many chapters and issues,” she defined. “However to actually decide to placing all of it collectively, I might love to write down about my expertise.”
The actress added that she worries about “the stress of getting it proper and all the things having to be precisely actual and all of the folks which might be concerned.”
She continued: “Additionally, I don’t know the way a lot I can say as a result of there are nonetheless folks and authorized issues in place that make it extra difficult for the timing of that. However I do write. I write on a regular basis.”
Burton Morgan, 41, famous that Lenz can write about her experiences by way of tune. “And I’ve,” the Everly frontwoman confirmed.
Lenz isn’t any stranger to opening up about her private life in an effort to assist different folks in related conditions. Beforehand, she performed a memorable Gray’s Anatomy character who was abused by her companion. Lenz was requested to play the function particularly due to her previous.
“I received a name from Krista Vernoff, who’s the showrunner of Gray’s Anatomy. … She knew a bit about my private historical past. I’ve been in an abusive relationship earlier than,” Lenz mentioned throughout a 2018 look on Steve Harvey‘s Steve present. “I wasn’t bodily abused, nevertheless it was very emotionally, psychologically and spiritually abusive in loads of methods.”
The Guiding Mild alum added that she needed to play Jenny, her Gray’s Anatomy character, to point out that abused ladies might be robust and sensible — and generally not even notice they’re experiencing abuse.
“You’re so used to this poisonous masculinity concept of ‘boys can be boys,’ or ‘oh, he simply misplaced his mood.’ To share with an viewers in that means — to see a lady who is de facto sensible and profitable and charismatic being abused — I hoped that individuals would relate to that and perhaps some ladies who relate to that state of affairs with out even realizing it will discover a reduction … after which have a solution to begin to get out,” Lenz mentioned on the time.
