AceShowbiz<\/strong> –Bethany Joy Lenz<\/strong> has divulged the cast of “One Tree Hill<\/strong>” tried to “save” her from life in a cult. The 42-year-old actress – who played Haley James Scott in the drama series – revealed last month she had spent a decade with a strict religious group and she’s now acknowledged everyone on the set of the show were aware of her circumstances and wanted to help, but she had too much “distrust” to open up to any of her colleagues.<\/p>\n “It was open with them – it was the whisper behind the scenes, like ‘You know, she’s in a cult.’ For a while, they were all trying to save me and rescue me, which is lovely and so amazing to be cared about in that way. But I was very stubborn. I was really committed to what I believed were the best choices I could make…,” she told Variety.<\/p>\n “The nature of a group like that is isolation; they have to make you distrust everyone around you so that the only people you trust are, first and foremost, the leadership and then, people within the group if the leadership approves of them, and isn’t in the middle of pitting you against each other, which happens all the time also.”<\/p>\n “It built a deep wedge of distrust between me and my cast and crew. As much as I loved them and cared about them, there was a fundamental thought, If I’m in pain, if I’m suffering, I can’t go to any of these people. So you feel incredibly lonely.”<\/p>\n