Bethany Joy Lenz to Detail “Spiritual Abuse” Suffered in Cult in Upcoming Memoir – E! Online

Bethany Pleasure Lenz is able to pull again the curtain on a difficult time of her life. 

The One Tree Hill alum revealed that she can be releasing a memoir early subsequent yr throughout which she’ll recount her 10 years in a cult. 

“There’s lots to inform,” she shared with People in a August 9 interview, including that her years within the unnamed cult overlapped together with her time on the CW drama and concerned “religious abuse.”

“Restoration appears to be like completely different for everybody, relying in your expertise of trauma,” Bethany defined, including that a part of her decade-long restoration course of has included remedy. “I needed to begin from a baseline of my private understanding of God and the experiences I had had. After which there was quite a lot of going again to who I used to be earlier than and remembering that, after which acknowledging that there was a lot I simply did not know.”

However when it got here to placing pen to paper, the 42-year-old stated it wasn’t the writing that was the onerous half. 

“I am a author at coronary heart, so turning a phrase is simple for me,” she defined. “Exploring the reminiscences, and actually going through them, will be difficult, however I am doing it.”