Bethany Joy Lenz Details Her 10 Years in a Cult: ‘One Tree Hill’ Star Compares ‘Sociopathic’ Leader to NXIVM’s Keith Raniere

It’s hard to believe that One Tree Hill first premiered almost 20 years ago!

Hilarie Burton is calling out her former boss for a creepy AF thing he once did!

Hilarie Burton recently recalled an uncomfortable situation on set with “One Tree Hill” creator Mark Schwahn.

“Drama Queens” podcast, which she hosts with former “One Tree Hill” costars Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz. In the episode titled “Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace,” Schwahn plays the role of Max. In addition, there was also physical contact between his character and Burton’s on-screen alter-ego, Peyton Sawyer.“I wasn’t speaking to him in real life, and so he wrote himself into the episode of me hugging him.

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Hilarie Burton is looking back at a very uncomfortable day on set of One Tree Hill with the show’s creator Mark Schwahn.

Sex and the City world, but thankfully, that turned out not to be true.The beloved actress pleasantly surprised fans of the iconic franchise by reprising her role as the sexed-up Samantha Jones in the season two finale of the original’s spinoff, And Just Like That.Her time on screen was brief, but it ended up being satisfying to fans of the series for many reasons. In a scene that opened the final episode of Season 2, Carrie Bradshaw, portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker, received an unexpected call from her old friend.“My flight’s three hours delayed, Carrie! I won’t be able to make it there in time,” Jones stated sadly while in a car, clearly trying to make her way to see Bradshaw.In the cameo, Jones told Bradshaw that Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) had reached out to her about a party that had been organized to commemorate Bradshaw’s departure from her iconic apartment.The apartment, an emblem of New York City living, had become synonymous with the main character throughout the series.

https://t.co/F7qO8RynN0 #OTH @Represent pic.twitter.com/WX7LLc89K4— Chad Michael Murray (@ChadMMurray) November 12, 2020Chad Michael Murray, who played Lucas Scott on “One Tree Hill,” went through many changes since his days on the show. Murray left the series at the end of Season 6, but returned to make a cameo in Season 9. Since then, he and his wife, Sarah Roemer, have welcomed three children, the newest a baby girl in 2023.

Chad Michael Murray and Sarah Roemer have announced the arrival of their third child. Sarah announced the new arrival on Instagram, where she shared a sweet snap of the tot's heart-shaped birthmark, Captioning the photo, she wrote: "Our baby girl arrived last week with a heart on her ankle.

It’s been over a decade since One Tree Hill aired its final season in 2012, and its talented cast of stars is all grown up.

Ron Cephas Jones, the beloved actor known for his Emmy-winning role as William Hill in the NBC hit series This Is Us, has died. He was 66.A rep for the late actor told that Jones «passed away at the age of 66 due to a long-standing pulmonary issue.»«Throughout the course of his career, his warmth, beauty, generosity, kindness and heart were felt by anyone who had the good fortune of knowing him,» the statement to the outlet read.

Bethany Joy Lenz is looking back at a dark time in her life and hoping to use her experiences to help guide others and to reclaim her own happiness.Lenz recently say down with ET's Nischelle Turner to talk about revelations she made last month about how she spent a decade in an unnamed religious cult, and how she managed to finally leave the cult and recover from the emotional trauma.Now, Lenz is working on her memoirs as part of her healing process, which she thinks might be able to shed light on the issue and help others stuck in similar predicaments.«There are a lot of people that get caught up in things that are abusive and bad for them and we all have these weird pockets inside of us that are vacancies that are susceptible to something from an outside source that's gonna take advantage of us in some way,» Lenz shared. «I think going through that, finding those places in me, and then being able to… put that on paper, and talk with other people who have been through that, [it's] been very cathartic and meaningful.»«I just really hope it helps somebody,» she added.

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Bethany Joy Lenz is sharing new details on her time in a cult — and the role her One Tree Hill co-stars played!

Bethany Joy Lenz' "One Tree Hill" co-stars attempted to "rescue" her from the cult she was a part of for 10 years and the alleged "spiritual abuse" she faced. "It was open with them. It was the whisper behind the scenes, like, 'You know, she’s in a cult,'" Lenz told Variety in a new interview.

Bethany Joy Lenz is grateful that the cast and crew of One Tree Hill tried to get her out of a cult she belonged to while filming the show.

Bethany Joy Lenz is opening up about her time in a cult. In a new interview with, the 42-year-old actress reveals that her castmates on tried to get her out of the cult she was a part of while starring in the teen drama.Lenz, who joined the unnamed cult «within a year or two» of the show's 2003 premiere, notes that she was «open» with her co-stars — who included Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton Morgan, Chad Michael Murray and James Lafferty — about the group with which she was involved, a topic she first discussed on her podcast in July.«It was the whisper behind the scenes, like 'You know, she's in a cult,'» Lenz recalls.

Bethany Joy Lenz will open up about her experience in a religious cult in her new memoir that is on the way.

Bethany Joy Lenz is working on what promises to be a bombshell memoir, expected to arrive early next year.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The Emmys officially have a new date: Fox and the Television Academy were set to announce this morning that the 75th Emmy Awards will shift to Monday, January 15, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT.