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Bethany Joy Lenz Says She Was connected a “Sex Schedule” During Arranged Marriage to “Cult” Leader’s Son
Bethany Joy Lenz is thanking her girl for giving her motherhood and freedom.
The One Tree Hill alum, whose memoir Dinner for Vampires: Live connected Cult TV (While besides successful an Actual Cult) released Oct. 22, shared however her 13-year-old girl Rosie inspired her leaving The Big House Family organization, which she has antecedently referred to arsenic a “cult.”
“I near due to the fact that of my daughter,” Bethany revealed connected an Oct. 22 occurrence of Good Morning America. “I near due to the fact that it was that time.”
The 43-year-old—who shares Rosie with ex-husband Michael Galeotti Jr.—shared that it was welcoming her small miss that made her recognize however problematic her concern had become.
“I retrieve having this thought, I said, ‘I don’t cognize what’s incorrect with maine and wherefore I volition let myself to beryllium treated this way, but there’s nary mode successful hellhole I’m going to let this to hap to her.’” Bethany continued. “We gotta get out.”
In the weeks starring up to her memoir’s release, Bethany has elaborate the horrors of her acquisition successful the ultra-Christian radical founded by her erstwhile father-in-law Michael Galeotti Sr.
“The stakes were truthful high,” Bethany—who became acquainted with the radical astatine conscionable 20 years old—recalled to People earlier this month. “They were my lone friends. I was joined into this group. I had built my full beingness astir it. If I admitted that I was wrong—everything other would travel crumbling down.”
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And portion the histrion near the Big House Family for the involvement of Rosie, her ex-husband—whom she divorced in 2012 aft 7 years of marriage—recently spoke retired against her memoir, citing the “problems” it whitethorn origin for the couple’s daughter.
“I don't cognize what to marque of this memoir aft each this time," Michael told the Daily Mail successful an interrogation published Oct. 22. “I person a girl who's truly important to me. I don't privation it to impact her. It's excessively much. I don't truly privation to origin immoderate problems for her.”
E! News has reached retired to reps for Bethany regarding Michael’s comments and has not yet heard back.
But still, much than a decennary aft their divorce, Bethany holds immoderate sympathy for her ex and the situation helium grew up in.
“It's truthful bittersweet due to the fact that he—like the mediocre feline ne'er had a shot," she explained connected an Oct. 16 occurrence of Call Her Daddy. “[He] was raised by this narcissist. He's thrust into a matrimony with a miss that's not close for him. He's doing the champion that helium can."
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