Tyler Hilton is providing new perception into what led to the demise of his short-lived romance with “One Tree Hill” co-star Bethany Pleasure Lenz.
Performing in Portland, Oregon on Monday, the actor and singer recalled how he and Lenz “really fell for each other” whereas engaged on The CW sequence, which aired from 2003 to 2012.
As seen in video footage of Hilton’s live performance, the actor and musician stated he and Lenz developed a detailed friendship, although their characters “weren’t really supposed to be hanging together.”
Over time, Hilton and Lenz’s relationship took a romantic flip, solely to be thwarted when members of Lenz’s non secular “cult” didn’t approve.
“They were like, ‘Yeah, he’s not the vibe.’ And she was like, ‘Yeah, the cult said no,’” he informed the gang. “I didn’t have an answer for that one, because normally you can tell a girl, ‘Is there something I can do?’ But if the cult says no, you’re fucked. I’d never been broken up with by cult before.”
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Lenz has but to remark publicly on Hilton’s remarks. Nonetheless, the actor detailed her decade-long involvement with an insular Christian group referred to as The Huge Home Household ― which she readily described as a “cult” ― in her new memoir, “Dinner for Vampires.”
Lenz, who reportedly left Huge Home Household in 2012, accused the group’s members of squandering a lot of her Hollywood earnings and pressuring her into marrying the son of one in every of its leaders.
Showing on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast final month, Lenz additionally claimed that Huge Home Household leaders put her and her ex-husband on what she described as a “sex schedule” in an effort to foster a deeper connection between the 2.
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“Because I was so disinterested in sex, I was then asked to go on a schedule, basically, of like, ‘Here’s how you can — you just have to do it. Just do it. This is your duty. This is your job as a wife. Your emotions will fall in line,’” she informed “Call Her Daddy” host Alex Cooper.
“It was a routine that I had to participate in, in order to keep the peace in my marriage,” she added.
