Escaping a Cult with Bethany Joy Lenz

Dear Chelsea

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Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz joins Chelsea to discuss what it was like to fall prey to a religious cult, to be taken for every penny she had, and finally find small moments of joy after escaping their grasp. Then: A child of powerful members of a *certain religious organization* works to accept that she may have lost her parents forever.

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