Bethany Joy Lenz reveals 'wonderful' new boyfriend after failed marriage to 'cult' leader's son

Bethany Joy Lenz has revealed she is successful a 'wonderful' caller narration aft a grounded matrimony to a 'cult' leader's boy successful nan early 2000s.

The One Tree Hill star, 43, who antecedently said she had a 'sex schedule' with nan unnamed man, credited her enigma caller emotion liking pinch allowing her to complete memoir Dinner for Vampires: Life connected a Cult TV Show (While Also successful an Actual Cult!).

Lenz, who shares girl Maria, 13, pinch ex Michael Galleotti who she was wed to from 2005-2012, told Variety: 'I’ve been seeing a awesome man, and he was incredibly helpful, very supportive, and helped pinch things for illustration after-school pickup, truthful I could support penning until 5.

'I tried to put myself connected a schedule truthful that I knew what days I was picking her up from schoolhouse and helping her pinch her homework aliases taking her to different activities, truthful I could make judge it still felt for illustration I was a portion of nan regular routine.

'Then location were different days wherever I was like, bid out, I’m penning from 7:30 until 6. So I did person help. And she, convey God, is astatine an property wherever Mom is not cool, and nan past point she wants to do is bent retired pinch me.'

The character shocked fans erstwhile she revealed up of her caller memoir that she was roped into a cult for 10 years.

She alleges that she knowledgeable 'manipulation, maltreatment and fear' astatine nan hands of what she thought was a religion covenant. 

In nan charismatic explanation of her book, she said she was nether nan power of nan 'domineering minister' of The Big House Family for a decade earlier she yet left. 

She has claimed nan minister convinced her to wed his boy and stole millions of dollars from her tv income from One Tree Hill, which ran from 2003 to 2012. 

Lenz opened up astir being joined to a man, whom she referred to arsenic QB.

On Wednesday's section of Call Her Daddy, Lenz explained that she felt for illustration she 'married nan incorrect person' during that clip erstwhile she sewage progressive pinch a 'cult' for 10 years successful nan early 2000s.

And owed to nan intimacy issues successful their marriage, she and QB were 'asked' to create a 'sex schedule.'

The prima said her narration pinch QB was 'playful and easy' astatine first.

However, complete time, she realized that they 'didn't person a batch successful common.' 

In nan end, she said her matrimony pinch QB turned into 'this benignant of arranged situation.'

Despite having a 'crazy activity drive,' she recalled redeeming herself for matrimony aft she was 'promised' that it would beryllium better; however, she said it was 'a large crock.'

'I thought if I prevention myself for marriage, past nan committedness is astonishing activity and ace heavy intimacy, and nothing's ever arsenic bully and it's just, like, nan champion point ever,' she said. 

'Then we person sex, and it's like, 'Why do I consciousness truthful sad? I don't consciousness much connected to you. I consciousness farther distant from you.''

Lenz recalled: 'Because I was truthful disinterested successful sex, I was past asked to spell connected a schedule.

'Basically [they were] like, 'You conscionable person to do it. Just do it. This is your duty. This is your occupation arsenic a wife. Your emotions will autumn successful line. If you do it enough, past eventually, you will find a measurement to bask it.'' 

She said she tried her champion to 'make it work' moreover though she 'hated it' because location was 'so overmuch astatine stake.'

'It was a regular that I had to participate successful in bid to support nan bid successful my marriage,' she added.

She said that while she was filming One Tree Hill successful Wilmington, her now-ex would perpetually recreation to nan Pacific Northwest and would expect activity whenever he came back.

'My tummy dropped each azygous time,' she admitted. 'In fact, it really affected my relationships afterwards [with] different boyfriends erstwhile I had to spell prime them up from nan airport.'

Lenz added: 'I had truthful overmuch PTSD from showing up astatine nan airdrome to spot him knowing that I was gonna person to commencement this activity schedule for nan next, for illustration 2 weeks aliases 3 weeks aliases whatever.'

And moreover though their matrimony yet ended, she said she still empathizes pinch her ex.

The mediocre feline ne'er had a shot,' she said. 'He was raised by this narcissist. He was thrust into a matrimony that's not correct for him. He's doing nan champion that he can, and he has been fed each these lies astir men and machismo, like, he was raised successful that.'

On Tuesday DailyMail.com revealed that she's referring to Wild Branch Ministries, a mini covenant religion whose devotees lived 'commune-style' successful a million-dollar mansion successful Battle Ground, Washington known arsenic The Big House.

Its laminitis – a 'domineering' curate Lenz has described arsenic a sociopath akin to Keith Raniere of nan NXIVM activity cult – is 'Papa' Mike Galeotti, her erstwhile father-in-law.

Approached for his broadside of nan story, Galeotti, 62, described her accusations arsenic 'heartbreaking.'

'Everybody sees things a small otherwise and she's going to cling to nan fame,' he told DailyMail.com successful an exclusive interview.

'Good for her. She's going to make a sanction for herself. But it's not nan measurement it went down.'

Galeotti's son, Michael Jr. assistance he preferred not to dredge up his years-long divorce.

'I don't cognize what to make of this memoir aft each this time,' he said.

'I person a girl who's really important to me. I don't want it to impact her. It's excessively much. I don't really want to origin immoderate problems for her.'

Dinner for Vampires: Life connected a Cult TV Show (While Also successful an Actual Cult!), will deed nan shelves connected October 22.