Bethany Pleasure Lenz talks about 'seeing a wonderful man'

Bethany Pleasure Lenz revealed that he dipped his toe back into the dating pool.

While gushing about her new boyfriend, the 43-year-old Hill of a tree The student talked about how she balanced writing her memoir. Dinner Party for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (But Also a Current Cult!)with raising her teenage daughter.

“I've been dating a wonderful man, and he was incredibly helpful, very supportive, and helped me with things like picking him up after school, so I was able to keep writing until 5,” Lenz said. Variety on Tuesday, October 22.

“I tried to set a schedule so I knew what days I would pick her up from school and help her with her homework or take her to different activities, so I could make sure I still felt part of the group. daily routine,” Lenz continued. “Then there were other days when I thought, don't worry, I write from 7:30 to 6. So I had help. And she, thank God, is at an age where mom is not cool and the last thing she wants to do is date me.”

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Robby Klein/Getty Pictures When Bethany Pleasure Lenz began to question parts of her life, her “justification” for belonging to a cult began to crumble. “A lot of times you hear the word 'cult,' but the justification can't be that I'm actually in a cult,” Lenz, 43, told Individuals in an interview published Tuesday. […]

Lenz welcomed her daughter Rosie in 2011 with her ex-husband. In her memoir and interviews about the book, Lenz was candid about her previous marriage and revealed that she was married to the son of the leader of the cult she belonged to at the time. (He referred to his ex as “QB” in the book.)

“We didn't have much in common. There wasn’t a lot of intellectual stimulation,” Lenz said during an appearance on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast earlier this month. “I'm out of options. … It just became this kind of fixed situation.” Later, Lenz and QB ended up having a sexual schedule, led by his father, “Les”).

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After a decade, Lenz finally left the religious cult around 2013. “I was done. I left that group and questioned everything: my entire upbringing, all religions,” Lenz said exclusively. Us weekly before the release of his memoirs. “I am a very deep thinker. I spend a lot of time using reason to try to understand patterns of behavior and belief systems. And I ended up with God.”

In the book, Lenz detailed his anger at God after leaving the cult and having a three-year custody battle with his ex, but now explained that he is “unlearning” much of what he was taught, including establishing his “trust with God”. God again.”

“That took years and I'm still working on it,” he said. “I am still finding areas in my life where I hold on so tightly to management and I realize that this is because I don't trust that God really has me. [and] that I can let it go. And if I'm wrong, it's a mistake and there's a plan B. And if I'm not wrong, great, I made the right decision.”

Still, he knows Rosie was worth it.

“If I had to go through that 10 more times in my life to have her,” Lenz said. Us“I would do it because she is worth it and she belongs here.”