From Bethany Joy Lenz to Joaquin Phoenix, learn more about these stars' experiences living in cults — and how they escaped Alexandra Schonfeld is a features writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

It's scary to think about, but you might fall for a cult. Just ask "One Tree Hill" actress Bethany Joy Lenz. Lenz spent 10 years in a religious cult she calls the "Big House Family" – something ...

"One Tree Hill" star Bethany Joy Lenz is still grappling with leaving the cult that controlled her life for a decade. "There’s something really powerful in putting things out in the open and ...

In 1989 came a suspicious disappearance. Lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, who had been helping families of cult members, went missing along with his family. An Aum Shinrikyo badge was found at their home ...

Here's who tried to warn her about it Bethany Joy Lenz, 43, has opened up about her decade spent deeply entrenched in a Christian cult while also starring on One Tree Hill in her memoir Dinner For ...

At the same time, she was unknowingly a member of a cult. In 2023, the actress shared on her podcast with former "One Tree Hill" castmates Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton that she'd harbored that ...

It hasn’t been easy, but Bethany Joy Lenz has managed to reestablish her connection with faith after a decade in a religious cult. In the book, Lenz, who was raised Christian, detailed what she ...

We were not armed.” Some media reports had branded the dispute as a conflict between residents and “a polyamory cult,” attempting to tie the Free Land Holders to the (FLDS). While members of ...

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the ...

Bethany Joy Lenz didn't mean to be part of a cult. Perhaps no one really does. But the erstwhile "One Tree Hill" star says she fell prey to the "Big House Family," the religious cult at the center ...

Though the source said nobody could immediately fathom the reason for the attack, it was suspected to be cult-related attack. The incident occurred a few metres away from the Governor’s Lodge ...