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One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz apologizes to her parents for being in 'cult' for decades


One Tree Hill's Bethany Joy Lenz apologized to her parents for the strain they endured during her ten years in an alleged cult. 'I don't know if I've ever just flat-out said to my parents,

History teacher Robert Lenz, 68, received the crushing message from his actress daughter after she became a devout follower of pastor Mike Galeotti, founder of an obscure church called Wild Branch Ministries. Lenz, 43, who shot to fame playing Haley James Scott in One Tree Hill, released a memoir last week which lays bare her ten-year entanglement with Wild Branch, based out of Battle Ground, Washington. The CW star’s feud with the Galeottis dates back to 2012 when she divorced the pastor’s eldest son Michael and renounced the church as a misogynistic cult and an unsafe environment for their baby daughter Maria.

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