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Bethany Joy Lenz Says She Was connected a “Sex Schedule” During Arranged Marriage to “Cult” Leader’s Son
Bethany Joy Lenz's former in-laws are pushing back.
As the One Tree Hill alum has continued to stock her acquisition arsenic a subordinate of The Big House Family organization, which she'd described arsenic a "cult," the ministry's laminitis and her erstwhile father-in-law Michael Galeotti refuted the allegations.
"Everybody sees things a small otherwise and she's going to cling to the fame," helium told Dailymail.com successful an interrogation published Oct. 22. "Good for her. She's going to marque a sanction for herself. But it's not the mode it went down."
In her memoir Dinner for Vampires, out now, shared penetration into however she became progressive with the radical and yet joined Michael's lad Michael Galeotti Jr., with whom she shares 13-year-old girl Rosie. (They divorced successful 2012 aft 7 years of marriage.)
And portion his dada didn't clasp backmost connected sharing what helium thinks astir the Pearson actress' recollection of the group, Michael Jr.'s archetypal precedence is their daughter.
E! News has reached retired to reps for Bethany and has not yet heard back.
The Galeottis' comments travel days aft Bethany gave much penetration into her clip astatine The Big House Family, including distancing herself from her family, which she said the radical influenced her by noting that her ma was "spiritually successful a antithetic place."
"It happens truly slowly," she explained connected the Call Her Daddy podcast Oct. 16. "There were tiny comments dropped, similar 'Don't forget, we're your family, we're present for you.'"
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She alleged that they would often stress that her ma was "just connected a antithetic path" and that she didn't respect Bethany's boundaries.
She besides shared that she and Michael Jr., who she lone identified arsenic "QB" successful the episode, created a "sex schedule" to assistance with their intimacy problems.
"I was truthful disinterested successful sex, I was past asked to spell connected a schedule," she recalled. "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.'"
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However, she shared however the regular yet contributed to her anxiousness successful their relationship.
"My tummy dropped each azygous time," the 43-year-old said. "In fact, it truly affected my relationships afterward—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."
Despite their sordid relationship, Bethany has sympathy for her ex.
"It's truthful bittersweet due to the fact that he—like the mediocre feline ne'er had a shot," she explained. "[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."
As she enactment it, "It was conscionable a messiness each around."
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