{"id":57523,"date":"2024-10-22T10:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T14:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=57523"},"modified":"2024-10-22T10:14:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T14:14:24","slug":"one-tree-hills-bethany-joy-lenz-faces-backlash-over-cult-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/one-tree-hills-bethany-joy-lenz-faces-backlash-over-cult-allegations\/57523\/","title":{"rendered":"One Tree Hill\u2019s Bethany Joy Lenz faces backlash over cult allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <em>One Tree Hill<\/em>\u00a0star Bethany Joy Lenz recently made startling allegations regarding her past, accusing her ex-husband\u2019s family of being part of a cult. She claims they manipulated her and drained her finances during her time on the popular CW show.<\/p>\n<p>In response to these claims, her former father-in-law, Mike Galeotti, denied the allegations, calling them \u201cheartbreaking.\u201d He rejected the claims that his family was involved in any cult-like behavior and believes the accusations are part of a promotional strategy for Lenz\u2019s upcoming memoir, <em>Dinner For Vampire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Lenz has referred to her time entangled with the Wild Branch Ministries, a religious group she says lived \u201ccommune-style\u201d in a mansion known as \u201cThe Big House\u201d in Battle Ground, Washington. According to Lenz, the group, led by Galeotti\u2019s father, controlled her career and finances for over a decade. Mike Galeotti, however, vehemently disputes these claims. He finds it disheartening that Lenz would make such statements, describing them as a fabrication intended to stir attention for her memoir, which delves deeper into the alleged cult\u2019s control over her life.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Galeotti added that his family has always been supportive of Bethany Joy Lenz and her career, and he expressed concern over the impact these allegations may have on their relationships. He emphasized that the portrayal of his family in Lenz\u2019s upcoming memoir does not reflect reality, insisting that their dynamic was far from what she described. Galeotti hopes the public will approach the claims with caution, considering the context of the book\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethany Joy Lenz, star of \u2018One Tree Hill\u2019, recently accused her ex-husband\u2019s family of cult-like control. Mike Galeotti, her former father-in-law, dismissed the allegations as \u201cheartbreaking\u201d and an effort to promote her upcoming memoir, \u2018Dinner For Vampires\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":57527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[20894,21477,21475,21479,20238,21478,21476],"class_list":["post-57523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-bethany-joy-lenz","tag-dinner-for-vampires","tag-michael-galeotti","tag-mike-galeotti","tag-one-tree-hill","tag-the-big-house","tag-wild-branch-ministries"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}