OneTreeHill Star Bethany Joy Lenz has revealed more details about the decade she spent in a cult.

The 42-year-old actress is best known for her role as Haley James Scott in the hit 2000s teen drama, in which she starred alongside Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton, James Laferty and Chad Michael Murray. The series ran for nine seasons, from 2003 to 2012.

Last July, Lenz said in her podcast Drama Queens that she was “in a cult for ten years” and hoped to write a book about her experiences. “That would be a really valuable experience to write about, and also the recovery – the ten years of recovery afterward. So there’s a lot to tell.”

The book is scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster later this year under the title. Dinner for VampiresThe subtitle is: “Life in a cult TV show – and at the same time part of a real cult!”

The official synopsis states: “In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to break through as an actress, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast in one of the lead roles in the hit drama OneTreeHill.

“Her career was on the verge of a breakthrough, but her private life was slowly falling apart. What none of the show’s millions of fans knew, and what even her co-stars didn’t know, was her secret double life in a cult.

“An only child who was often left to fend for herself and always wanted a place to belong, Lenz found the safe haven she was looking for in a Bible study group with other Hollywood creatives. The group, however, soon morphed into something even more sinister – a slowly woven web of manipulation, abuse and fear under the guise of a church covenant called The Big House Family.”

It goes on to say that Lenz was encouraged by the cult’s leaders to give up her autonomy and that she eventually moved to their complex in the Pacific Northwest.

There, a domineering pastor is said to have convinced Lenz to marry one of his sons while gradually stealing millions of dollars from her television earnings.

Only when Lenz became a mother did she decide to leave the sect to spare her child from growing up under the group’s control.

Lenz had previously said of the book that she had felt the “pressure to get it right and that everything had to be exactly real with all the people involved”.

“Also, I don’t know how much I can say because there are still people and legal things that complicate the timing of that,” she added. “But I’m writing. I’m writing all the time.”

Dinner for Vampires will be released on October 22nd.