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One Tree Hill's Bethany Joy Lenz sent father heartbreaking email after marrying into alleged cult


'Cult victim' Bethany Joy Lenz shunned her heartbroken dad for six years after marrying into a secretive Christian sect

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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