I ask Bethany Joy Lenz when she reached the point of no return. "Point of no return... 'The Phantom of the Opera' is playing in my mind," she says with a laugh. For more than 10 years, Lenz was in a religious cult based in the Pacific Northwest.

It hasn’t been easy, but Bethany Joy Lenz has managed to reestablish her connection with faith after a decade in a religious cult. “I was done. I walked out of that group and I questioned everything — my whole upbringing,

Fifteen months ago, during a recap episode of the “Drama Queens” podcast, guest Michaela McManus asked co-hosts Bethany Joy Lenz and Sophia Bush whether they’d ever write a book. Lenz responded that she often writes,