Bethany Joy Lenz Had "Sex Schedule" in Marriage to "Cult" Leader's Son

The issues made her and her husband—whom she calls QB, adding helium was besides the lad of the organization's leader—create a "sex schedule" to assistance with their intimacy issues, particularly due to the fact that her hubby was going backmost and distant betwixt the Pacific Northwest and Wilmington—where she filmed One Tree Hill—a lot.

"Because I was truthful disinterested successful sex, I was past asked to spell connected a schedule," she told host Alex Cooper. "Basically of like, 'You conscionable person to bash it. Just bash it. This is your duty. This is your occupation arsenic a wife. Your emotions volition autumn successful line. If you bash it enough, past eventually, you volition find a mode to bask it.'"

Bethany admits she participated successful the regular "in bid to support the bid successful my marriage," but that the docket contributed to her anxiousness and unhappiness successful the narration knowing that they would person to support to the docket aft she picked him up from the airdrome erstwhile helium got backmost into town.

"My tummy dropped each azygous time," she said. "In fact, it truly affected my relationships afterwards—like, different boyfriends erstwhile I had to spell prime them up from the airport. I had truthful overmuch PTSD from showing up astatine the airdrome to spot him knowing that I was gonna person to commencement this enactment docket for the next, like, 2 weeks oregon 3 weeks oregon whatever."

Though Bethany did not uncover the individuality of "QB," she notes the 2 had a girl together. She was antecedently joined to musician Michael Galeotti for 5 years earlier the mates divorced successful 2012. They stock 13-year-old daughter Rosie.

E! News has reached retired to Michael for comments, but has not heard back.

Looking backmost connected that clip successful her life, Bethany admits that she and her hubby "didn't person a batch successful common," but that she felt similar she'd "run retired of options" erstwhile it came to uncovering a spouse due to the fact that she couldn't day a non-Christian oregon anyone extracurricular the group, truthful her narration with QB "became this benignant of arranged situation."

But contempt the difficulty, Bethany did admit that she felt empathy for her ex husband.

"It's truthful bittersweet due to the fact that he—like the mediocre feline ne'er had a shot," she shared. "[He] was raised by this narcissist. He's thrust into a matrimony with a miss that's not close for him. He's doing the champion that helium can."

She added, "It was conscionable a messiness each around."

And portion Bethany reiterated that it was the incorrect matrimony for some of them, she did adhd it was hard to deliberation truthful negatively astir it, "because I person an astonishing daughter, and so, is thing wrong?"

The Dexter alum besides elaborate her beingness with the group successful her upcoming memoir Dinner for Vampires: Life connected a Cult TV Show (While Also successful an Actual Cult), wherever she describes how she ended up joining successful the archetypal place.

"I had ever been looking for a spot to belong," she told People. "It inactive looked mean and past it conscionable morphed. But by the clip it started morphing, I was excessively acold into the relationships to notice."

However, astir 10 years aft joining, she recovered that thing was disconnected astir the assemblage and realized she needed to get out.

"The stakes were truthful high," she said. "They were my lone friends. I was joined into this group. I had built my full beingness astir it. If I admitted that I was wrong—everything other would travel crumbling down."