Bethany Joy Lenz reveals losing her virginity on 'abysmal honeymoon'

Bethany Joy Lenz has opened up about losing her virginity to her ex-husband during an 'abysmal' honeymoon planned by her father-in-law and alleged 'cult' leader.

The One Tree Hill star, 43, dropped the bombshell in her new memoir, Dinner for Vampires, as she opened up about her life within a religious group - which she branded a cult - and the horrors she faced throughout the duration of her six-year marriage.

In her memoir, Lenz details life as a 26-year-old newlywed after marrying Michael Galeotti Jr. - whom she calls QB, which stands for 'Quiet Boy' - in the book. 

Lenz, who is famous for playing girl-next-door Haley James Scott on the popular teen drama from 2003 to 2012, married her now ex-husband in 2005 before embarking on a honeymoon.

'I'd dropped so many hints to him since the engagement,' she shared, suggesting England, Iceland, and Spain.

'Only when he handed me my ticket to pass through security did I discover out destination,' she recalled. 'We were flying to... Colorado?'

'This was not the honeymoon I had been dreaming about since I was a girl,' she wrote sadly. 'This was the worst idea for a honeymoon that anyone who knew me, even peripherally, could have possibly come up with.'

The Hallmark star, who was a member of a Christian sect for 10 years, added that 'naturally' the honeymoon had been the group leader's idea - who is also QB's father Michael Galeotti, or 'Les' as he's called in her book.

'He had gotten a deal at the Lodge & Spa at Cordillera, which was struggling to fill rooms due to it being the hotel where Kobe Bryant had been accused of rape just a year before,' she shared.

'What about a public sexual assault case screamed "honeymoon" to this man, I'm not sure,' she quipped.

She added that she had ultimately paid for the honeymoon, as she had added her then-husband to her credit cards. 

Lenz added that 'sensing' her disappointment in the honeymoon, QB told her 'they wouldn't be leaving the room much anyway - which she had complicated feelings and found 'extraordinarily confusing' towards as a Christian woman who had been saving herself for marriage.

'The evangelical-purity culture promise of brilliant sex being the ultimate reward for staying zipped up until someone put a ring on it turned out to be a hoax,' she admitted.

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Lenz added the had 'hoped' having sex with QB would solve some of their relationship issues and produce the chemistry she desired, but instead left her feeling sad and angry.

'I felt angry with him for suddenly having no interest in me besides my body, and he was angry that everything he'd been promised about wives being a personal blow-up doll was false,' she claimed.

Lenz said she felt 'trapped' on the honeymoon, and QB was reluctant to leave the room at all.

'I had no idea how bad it would get or how exhausted and emotionally stripped I would become, but it was immediately and abundantly clear this whole arrangement was the worst decision I'd ever made,' she declared.

The actress then went on to talk about life after the 'abysmal honeymoon,' with QB moving to Wilmington with her where the couple immediately began 'integrating' their lives which involved heavily monitoring her at all times.

Lenz married to Galleotti from 2005 to 2012 and gave birth to daughter Maria in 2011.

'He didn't even want me to own anything about my life before marriage,' she shared, revealing she purged everything of 'old' life and even moved apartments. 

Lenz opened up about her intimacy issues with her ex-husband last week on a Call Your Daddy episode, explaining she and QB were 'asked' to develop a 'sex schedule.' 

She said she tried her best to 'make it work' even though she 'hated it' because there was 'so much at stake.'

'It was a routine that I had to participate in in order to keep the peace in my marriage,' she added.

The star previously revealed her wholesome on-screen persona masked a painful, decade-long entanglement in a parasitic Christian sect that allegedly seized control of her career and finances.

Lenz was apart of the Wild Branch Ministries, a tiny covenant church whose devotees lived 'commune-style' in a million-dollar mansion in Battle Ground, Washington known as The Big House.

The group's founder – a 'domineering' minister Lenz has described as a sociopath akin to Keith Raniere of the NXIVM sex cult – is 'Papa' Michael Galeotti, her former father-in-law.

During her 2012 divorce, the actress-turned-podcaster begged a judge in Washington's Clark County to keep her 'controlling' in-laws away from her then one-year-old daughter Maria, according to court papers.

She depicted life in the Big House as squalid and filthy, insisting it was not a safe place for her ex-husband – a former indie rock musician – to host their little girl.

'The condition of the property where he is living is unsanitary, having caused me difficulty breathing from the vomit, feces, urine, and mold and the resulting foul odors,' Lenz wrote in a scathing declaration obtained by DailyMail.com.

'I am concerned Maria will spend time with the petitioner in what is best described as a misogynistic exclusive 'community' environment, lorded over by the petitioner's father.'

Lenz's journey into the cult-like group began when she moved to LA in her early 20s and joined a bible study group hosted by Jeanine Jackson, a prominent Battle Ground matriarch who was staying in California to help her sons Richard and Jonathan launch showbiz careers.

The former in-laws of Lenz recently broke their silence to reject her allegations of abuse and brainwashing as a cynical effort to sell copies of her upcoming memoir.

'Everybody sees things a little differently and she's going to cling to the fame,' he told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.

'Good for her. She's going to make a name for herself. But it's not the way it went down.'

Galeotti's son, Michael Jr., previously said he preferred not to dredge up his years-long divorce.

'I don't know what to make of this memoir after all this time,' he said.

'I have a daughter who's really important to me. I don't want it to affect her. It's too much. I don't really want to cause any problems for her.' 

The sleeve of Lenz's book promises to lay bare 'her life on a cult TV show… while also in an actual cult.'

Lenz recently told Variety she's got a new boyfriend who is 'wonderful.'

'I've been seeing a wonderful man, and he was incredibly helpful, very supportive,' she gushed.