One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz has opened up about her experience as a former member of the Big House Family cult and her six-year marriage to the cult leader’s son.
While talking with Alex Cooper on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Lenz discussed her decade-long life living in the controversial Christian community, and her new book “Dinner for Vampires”.
The One Tree Hill star shared how her marriage “became this sort of arranged situation.”
While discussing details of her six-year marriage, who she describes as the cult leader’s son, Lenz expressed how the two “didn’t have a lot in common.”
“There wasn’t a lot of intellectual stimulation,” she said.
“But I had kinda run out of options,” she added.
“Like, I couldn’t date a non-Christian and I couldn’t really date anybody outside of the group – So it just became this sort of arranged situation.”
Despite sharing how she has a “crazy sex drive”, Lenz admits she never felt that sort of connection with her ex-partner.
“It felt like this promise that I had been given as a good evangelical was a big crock.”
“Like, what the heck? I thought if I save myself for marriage, then the promise is amazing sex and super deep intimacy, and nothing’s ever as good,” she explained.
She continued to explain how when having sex with her ex-husband, she would feel “sad” and often find herself feeling “farther away” as opposed to “more connected” to him.