One Tree Hill actress Bethany Joy Lenz has shockingly revealed that she was on a "sex schedule" with her ex-husband who was the son of a cult leader.
The 43-year-old star was a household name in the early 2000s due to her role as Haley James Scott on the CW show, starring alongside Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush.
Joy Lenz recently appeared on the Call Her Daddy podcast to candidly open up about her six-year marriage to a man she describes as the Big House Family cult leader’s son.
The Savoring Paris star said while the early stages of their romance were “playful and easy,” they didn't have "a lot in common" with her ex, whom she refers to as QB.
"There wasn't a lot of intellectual stimulation. But I had kinda run out of options. Like, I couldn't date a non-Christian and I couldn't really date anybody outside of the group… So it just became this sort of arranged situation," she said, cited by Entertainment Weekly.
Watch a snippet from the interview below:Joy Lenz told Cooper that the couple realized that they were incompatible after officially getting married. She described herself as having a "crazy sex drive," and revealed that she never felt that way about her ex.
“It felt like this promise that I had been given as a good evangelical was a big crock. Like, what the heck? I thought if I save myself for marriage, then the promise is amazing sex and super deep intimacy, and nothing's ever as good,” she said.
“And then we have sex, and it's like, ‘Why do I feel so sad? I don't feel more connected to you. I feel farther away from you.’ And I don't think that necessarily had anything to do with saving myself for marriage. It was just that I married the wrong person," she continued.
As the Christmas Secret actress was "so disinterested in sex," her former husband implemented a “sex schedule” into their marriage.
"I was then asked to go on a schedule, basically, of, like, ‘You just have to do it. Just do it. This is your duty. This is your job as a wife. Your emotions will fall in line. If you do it enough, then eventually, you will find a way to enjoy it,’" she explained.
The One Tree Hill alum stated that she took her vows and commitment to God very seriously which is why she went along with the schedule, which usually came into effect when her ex-partner was in town as he often traveled.
She "hated" following the "routine," but "had to participate in in order to keep the peace in my marriage,” she told the host.
Joy Lenz, who shares a daughter with QB, also divulged that the situation gave her PTSD and “really affected” her relationships specifically when she had to pick her boyfriends up at the airport.
"I had so much PTSD from showing up at the airport to see him knowing that I was gonna have to start this sex schedule for the next, like, two weeks or three weeks or whatever," she added.
Joy Lenz, who revealed that she was in the cult during her time on One Tree Hill, disclosed further details about her marriage in her forthcoming memoir, Dinner for Vampires.
The memoir will hit shelves on October 22.