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America's teen sweetheart vs the 'cult': The truth behind One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz's 'terrifying ordeal'
Lenz's recent press tour on her new memoir, that details the abuse she faced at the hands of her former in-laws ministry, has raised questions around the validity of her claims.
Even by the standards of a Hollywood drama, the claims made by One Tree Hill actress Bethany Joy Lenz about being drawn into a warped cult that saw her forced to live in a commune and hand over more than $1m of her earnings are shocking. In Lenz’s telling, her fame as girl-next-door Haley James Scott on the popular teen drama, One Tree Hill, hid a reality that involved marrying the son of a charismatic ‘cult leader’ who had drawn her into his world after she began attending his bible studies classes after moving to LA in her early twenties. Lenz’s other main claim in her memoir relates to the alleged financial damage she suffered due to her earnings being managed by a company called Q-3 – which was controlled by Papa Galeotti, Jeanine Jackson and a third friend, Jeff Quade.
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