BETHANY JOY LENZ: Caught in the Web: Getting Real on Escaping a Cult and Reclaiming Her Power

Get Real with Caroline Hobby

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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Bethany Joy Lenz, star of One Tree Hill, opens up about one of the most harrowing chapters of her life—being drawn into a spiritual cult. In a candid conversation, she shares how a combination of intense personal loneliness and the search for belonging made her vulnerable to manipulation. Joy reveals the psychological and emotional tactics used to control her, how the leader exploited her trust, and the dangerous effects of losing autonomy in a groupthink environment. With deep honesty, she discusses the moment of clarity that allowed her to break free, reclaim her power, and reconnect with her true self. This is a story of survival, strength, and the courage to break free from the grip of toxic control. From faith to fame, discover how Joy navigated the spiritual minefield that could have derailed her life and career, and how she emerged stronger and wiser than ever before.

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0:00.0	Caroline, she's a queen of talking, hey, what's on your mind.
0:13.0	She's getting real, not afraid to feel.
0:20.0	Take her soul to soul
0:21.0	Just let her flow
0:22.1	No one can do it quite like Caroline
0:25.7	It's time for Caroline
0:28.7	All right
0:31.5	I am so excited to be here with Bethany Joy Linz
0:35.4	You are
0:36.9	phenomenal Thank you, so are. It's great to see you.
0:42.2	Man, I literally have been just binging your book, Dinner for Vampires. I'm sad. I was not someone who grew up
0:51.5	watching One Tree Hill. And now I feel like I need to go back and binge that because after like reading your book and then deep diving you and then I deep dive one tree hill.
1:00.9	And that show is like that's like an amazing.
1:05.0	That show like shaped our generation.
1:08.7	Like I'm 41 and I feel like I don't know how I missed watching it,
1:12.2	probably because I didn't watch a whole bunch of TV growing up, but that was like,
1:15.7	for you. I know, I know, right? That was like the show that shaped our, like, our minds, I feel
1:24.2	like. That and Friday Night Lights. It's like, one tree. Yeah. We're the one. Friday night light. That was a big one too. Yeah, the others felt like
1:33.6	they were as much as we loved Gossip Girl in the O.C. They were very. They lived in that
1:38.7	Beverly Hills 902 and O zone of it's such a rare population of America who live like that but the kids that live
1:48.3	like us kids in one tree hill and the kids that lived like the Friday Night like kids are vastly
1:55.9	more sorry my sentences aren't working today they'll'll come together eventually, but there's so many
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