“No, no, no.
Cults are people in robes chanting crazy things and drinking Kool-Aid,” she remembered saying.
“I could read it on people’s faces,” she said of her costars' reactions.
Sophia Bush, Chad Michael Murray, Hilarie Burton, James Lafferty, Bethany Joy Lenz in ‘One Tree Hill’.Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett
“But the justification of it can’t possibly be that I’m actually in a cult.
And so we’ve got it, and they just don’t understand.'
That’s how you have to rationalize it.”
Bethany Joy Lenz.Mark Von Holden/Getty Images
“I was like, ‘No, no, no.
Cults are people in robes chanting crazy things and drinking Kool-Aid,” she remembered saying.
“That’s not what we do!'”
Elsewhere in the PEOPLE interview, Lenz explained how she ended up in the group in the first place.
And it was at first, and then it just morphed.
The group became increasingly insular, and encouraged Lenz to distrust anyone outside of it.
Lenz explained why the group appealed to her at the time.
“We crave that kind of intimacy,” she said.
Lenzfirst discussed her time in the groupon her podcast last year.
“I was in a cult for 10 years,” Lenz said last July.
So there’s a lot to tell."
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Dinner for Vampireshits shelves Oct. 22.
