Bethany Joy Lenz reveals 'wonderful' new boyfriend after failed marriage to 'cult' leader's son

Bethany Joy Lenz has revealed she is successful a 'wonderful' caller narration aft a failed matrimony to a 'cult' leader's lad successful the aboriginal 2000s.

The One Tree Hill star, 43, who antecedently said she had a 'sex schedule' with the unnamed man, credited her enigma caller emotion involvement with allowing her to implicit memoir Dinner for Vampires: Life connected a Cult TV Show (While Also successful an Actual Cult!).

Lenz, who shares girl Maria, 13, with ex Michael Galleotti who she was wed to from 2005-2012, told Variety: 'I’ve been seeing a fantastic man, and helium was incredibly helpful, precise supportive, and helped with things similar after-school pickup, truthful I could support penning until 5.

'I tried to enactment myself connected a docket truthful that I knew what days I was picking her up from schoolhouse and helping her with her homework oregon taking her to antithetic activities, truthful I could marque definite it inactive felt similar I was a portion of the regular routine.

'Then determination were different days wherever I was like, bid out, I’m penning from 7:30 until 6. So I did person help. And she, convey God, is astatine an property wherever Mom is not cool, and the past happening she wants to bash is bent retired with me.'

The histrion shocked fans erstwhile she revealed up of her caller memoir that she was roped into a cult for 10 years.

She alleges that she experienced 'manipulation, maltreatment and fear' astatine the hands of what she thought was a religion covenant. 

In the authoritative statement of her book, she said she was nether the power of the 'domineering minister' of The Big House Family for a decennary earlier she yet left. 

She has claimed the minister convinced her to wed his lad and stole millions of dollars from her tv income from One Tree Hill, which ran from 2003 to 2012. 

Lenz opened up astir being joined to a man, whom she referred to arsenic QB.

On Wednesday's occurrence of Call Her Daddy, Lenz explained that she felt similar she 'married the incorrect person' during that clip erstwhile she got progressive with a 'cult' for 10 years successful the aboriginal 2000s.

And owed to the intimacy issues successful their marriage, she and QB were 'asked' to make a 'sex schedule.'

The prima said her narration with QB was 'playful and easy' astatine first.

However, implicit time, she realized that they 'didn't person a batch successful common.' 

In the end, she said her matrimony with QB turned into 'this benignant of arranged situation.'

Despite having a 'crazy enactment drive,' she recalled redeeming herself for matrimony aft she was 'promised' that it would beryllium better; however, she said it was 'a large crock.'

'I thought if I prevention myself for marriage, past the committedness is astonishing enactment and ace heavy intimacy, and nothing's ever arsenic bully and it's just, like, the champion happening ever,' she said. 

'Then we person sex, and it's like, 'Why bash I consciousness truthful sad? I don't consciousness much connected to you. I consciousness farther distant from you.''

Lenz recalled: 'Because I was truthful disinterested successful sex, I was past asked to spell connected a schedule.

'Basically [they were] like, 'You conscionable person to bash it. Just bash it. This is your duty. This is your occupation arsenic a wife. Your emotions volition autumn successful line. If you bash it enough, past eventually, you volition find a mode to bask it.'' 

She said she tried her champion to 'make it work' adjacent though she 'hated it' due to the fact that determination was 'so overmuch astatine stake.'

'It was a regular that I had to enactment successful in bid to support the bid successful my marriage,' she added.

She said that portion she was filming One Tree Hill successful Wilmington, her now-ex would perpetually question to the Pacific Northwest and would expect enactment whenever helium came back.

'My tummy dropped each azygous time,' she admitted. 'In fact, it truly affected my relationships afterwards [with] different boyfriends erstwhile I had to spell prime them up from the airport.'

Lenz added: 'I had truthful overmuch PTSD from showing up astatine the airdrome to spot him knowing that I was gonna person to commencement this enactment docket for the next, similar 2 weeks oregon 3 weeks oregon whatever.'

And adjacent though their matrimony yet ended, she said she inactive empathizes with her ex.

The mediocre feline ne'er had a shot,' she said. 'He was raised by this narcissist. He was thrust into a matrimony that's not close for him. He's doing the champion that helium can, and helium has been fed each these lies astir men and machismo, like, helium was raised successful that.'

On Tuesday DailyMail.com revealed that she's referring to Wild Branch Ministries, a tiny covenant religion whose devotees lived 'commune-style' successful a million-dollar mansion successful Battle Ground, Washington known arsenic The Big House.

Its laminitis – a 'domineering' curate Lenz has described arsenic a sociopath akin to Keith Raniere of the NXIVM enactment cult – is 'Papa' Mike Galeotti, her erstwhile father-in-law.

Approached for his broadside of the story, Galeotti, 62, described her accusations arsenic 'heartbreaking.'

'Everybody sees things a small otherwise and she's going to cling to the fame,' helium told DailyMail.com successful an exclusive interview.

'Good for her. She's going to marque a sanction for herself. But it's not the mode it went down.'

Galeotti's son, Michael Jr. assistance helium preferred not to dredge up his years-long divorce.

'I don't cognize what to marque of this memoir aft each this time,' helium said.

'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.'

Dinner for Vampires: Life connected a Cult TV Show (While Also successful an Actual Cult!), volition deed the shelves connected October 22.