Regardless of being a lead in some of the beloved tv sequence within the early 2000s, Lenz discovered herself searching for extra.

Whereas sitting down with PEOPLE to advertise her memoir Dinner for Vampires Life on a Cult TV Present (Whereas additionally in an Precise Cult!), the 43-year-old opened up about how he bought concerned with an ultra-Christian group she calls a “cult.”

“I used to be an solely little one and my mother and father have been fantastic individuals with a whole lot of their very own stuff to take care of,” she informed the publication.

“It was only a hole, it was of all of the fantastic factor they did as mother and father this was a niche in parenting like all of us have in parenting. It simply so occurred that this hole intersected with my expertise rising up within the Evangelical Church and so I used to be searching for a spot to belong that was additionally hooked up to a better religious expertise,” she continued.

Lenz spent a decade within the “cult,” which she says was led by a pastor in Idaho who ended up controlling her profession, life selections and her checking account. Initially, nevertheless, she stated discovering the group felt like “water in a desert.”

“We crave that type of intimacy,” she stated.

“The concept that somebody on the market says, ‘It doesn’t matter what you do or how badly you would possibly behave or what dumb selections you make, I nonetheless love you, and I am right here for you,’” she added.

“It regarded so regular, it regarded a lot like a whole lot of Wednesday night time bible research that I might been to in my life and it was at first after which it simply morphed,” she recalled. “However by the point it began morphing I used to be too far into the relationships to essentially discover and I used to be very younger, I did not query the group. I questioned my marriage”

The actress stated she would not just like the time period “brainwashing,” however referred to the entire expertise as “excessive management.”

“I adjusted the whole lot round me to suit what I needed to imagine,” she revealed.

Whereas she’s talked about this time in her life on her One Tree Hill podcast, she opens up about your complete expertise for the primary time intimately in her upcoming memoir — including that she would not consider it as “courageous.”

“I consider it as necessary. Residing silently within the struggling I skilled, I do not know if that helps anybody,” she stated, hoping it will likely be assist others. “I consider this extra as the precise factor to do.”

As for what her costars stated of the choice to be part of the “cult”, Lenz recalled that she “may see it on their faces.”

“However I might justify it, like, ‘I could not probably be in a cult. It is simply that I’ve bought entry to a relationship with God and folks in a approach that everyone else desires, however they do not know how you can get it,’” she defined.

Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Present (Whereas additionally in an Precise Cult!) comes out Oct. 22.

Whereas showing on Bravo’s Watch What Occurs Stay on Monday with host Andy Cohen, Koch revealed that whereas he thought the doc was “nice,” there have been two issues he felt it was lacking.

“I assumed it was nice, I assumed they did an ideal job,” Koch — who who performs Erik Menéndez in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story — mentioned.

“I assumed they ignored a pair items of knowledge that may have been nice to have in there, that are the 2 items of recent proof which have come out. Which is the letter that Erik wrote to his cousin Andy,” he started.

“He wrote a letter to his cousin Andy like six to eight months earlier than the murders. He was telling him the abuse was nonetheless taking place. Then additionally, a member of Menudo, Roy Rosselló got here out about additionally having been sexually molested by Jose Menendez, so it is enormous,” Koch continued, addressing extra allegations of abuse levied in opposition to the Memendez brothers’ father in recent times.

Later within the episode, Koch partook in WWHL‘s “Clubhouse of Horror,” the place he was requested some fast hearth questions on his time engaged on Ryan Murphy’s Monsters and subsequently visiting the actual Menendez brothers in jail.

Of assembly Erik and Lyle, he mentioned it wasn’t “intimidating,” including, “I might say extra nerve-wracking ‘trigger I’ve identified about them for thus lengthy and I care a lot about them it was similar to nervous, however then once I acquired there it was all nice.”

He additionally revealed whether or not any prosthetics have been used for Koch whereas filming a nude bathe scene, with the 28-year-old actor telling host Cohen, “simply to say, mine was not a prosthetic.”

“Effectively, that was gonna be my subsequent query!” the 56-year-old, replied. “Congratulations to you, Cooper.” Koch mouthed, “thanks.”

“You are very blessed, aren’t you?” Cohen requested.

“Effectively hung,” Koch quipped, earlier than sharing later within the interview that the bathe water wasn’t all the time heat.

Throughout his WWHL look, Koch mentioned he was additionally reminded of a time when his drama instructor informed him the explanation he wasn’t reserving roles as as a result of he has a “homosexual voice.”

“Yeah, I do not discuss to them anymore,” Koch informed Cohen, after the host requested whether or not Koch had despatched her all 10 episodes of the sequence that has since catapulted his profession to a brand new degree.

“I used to be so shocked by it on the time, it was earlier than the category even began and she or he then proceeded to inform your entire class the dialog we had beforehand had,” Koch recalled.

Koch and his costar/onscreen sibling Nicholas Alexander Chavez, who performed Lyle Menéndez, have been making waves within the business for the reason that sequence premiered final month.

The controversial scripted present, created by Ryan Murphy, facilities the Menendez brothers’ high-profile trial for killing their dad and mom in 1989 and explores their claims that they have been sexually, bodily and emotionally abused by José and Kitty Menéndez.

It is streaming now on Netflix.

However first, considered one of them would wish to emerge with the ultimate energy of the week, and that will take three rounds of competitors to perform. As soon as the ultimate Head of Family is topped, the ultimate choice they get to make occurs. Who to take to the top?

This is how we noticed the choices as they have been laid out going into the finale:

Cam – For Cam to have any probability on this sport, he wanted first to win this remaining Head of Family. Then, he wanted to chop Chelsie as a result of his total sport was in her shadow. On prime of that, he’d want one hell of a robust argument to beat Makensy’s powerhouse sport that helped carry him to the top. In different phrases, he had virtually no shot in hell of successful, however he might combat his solution to second.

Chelsie – If she might get to the top, by successful or getting carried, she had the best path to victory. Hers had been a season-long journey of manipulation and management, orchestrating the season behind the scenes when she wasn’t in energy and taking energy 4 time as Head of Family to regulate issues instantly. She manipulated Makensy to learn her personal sport, using the comp beast as her personal lackey. She’s an important speaker, so all she wanted was an opportunity to talk. If she did achieve energy, although, we would not be shocked if she lower Makensy to make her victory all of the extra assured.

Makensy – The neatest factor Makensy might have achieved could be to beast out, win the ultimate Head of Family after which lower the pinnacle off the snake, sending Chelsie to Jury Home. She might then argue she solely used the mastermind to guard her (since she could not win every little thing) as wanted, after which lower her unfastened when she did not want her anymore. She might make that argument subsequent to Chelsie, and add that aspect of loyalty, however it could be a lot more durable to persuade this Jury that she had extra of an general sport than Chelsie did. She gained her manner right here, she wanted to win her manner out with a wise eviction within the remaining quarter.

As we left the Houseguests in Spherical 1 of the ultimate Head of Family, they have been hanging on for pricey life in a variation of the Wall, solely this one required power of palms, core, and legs to remain inside their harness machine whereas it confronted the ground.

Makensy shortly began complaining that she might now not really feel her left hand, and finally it price her the sport, with the athlete dropping first out of the competitors.

With a shot at his second general victory, Cam was powering by as finest he can. Alas, he needed to accept yet one more second-place end, as he dropped and secured Chelsie’s spot within the remaining spherical of play, which came about stay on Sunday night time.

That queued up the gamers for Spherical 2, which was a tacky competitors the place they needed to pivot poles to line up a monitor and take away three items from them. Then, organize 9 “energy cords” of differing lengths to destroy Ainsley’s mind. That is proper, it is all about destroying the season’s evil AI.

Actually, Ainsley did not actually do a lot after she turned evil. We actually thought she was going to torture the Houseguests after her flip, however that is not what occurred. Hell, JANKIE was way more torturous for that week they have been locked outdoors!

Whereas we received some speaking heads from Cam about how he wanted this win to make a giant transfer and the way shut it was … it wasn’t even shut!

He was nonetheless spinning pillars to attempt to discover the trail whereas Makensy was wrapping up aligning all 9 energy cables. This one was a disastrous efficiency for the elite athlete, wrapping up a horrible season that he admitted after it was throughout was very humbling for him.

Now, his destiny was not in his palms. Fortunate for him, his poor performances all season lengthy, and general ineffectiveness as a Large Brother participant, make him an important candidate to hold into the Remaining 2 and safe that large victory.

The third and remaining spherical of the competitors came about stay throughout Sunday’s two-hour finale broadcast, with Chelsie and Makensy going through off in six rounds of question-and-answer about very particular particulars concerning the Jury’s time within the Home.

Remarkably, they have been tied going into the sixth spherical, having given the identical reply (out of three) in each single spherical, and being proper each single time. Within the remaining spherical, you possibly can hear the viewers gasp as they lastly gave completely different solutions.

Ultimately, Makensy caught by her mantra of loyalty (that will not have been returned), staying true to her character and making the finale way more aggressive for herself. By selecting to take a seat subsequent to Chelsie and evict Cam, she gave herself an uphill battle to win, and never a complete lot of time to develop her technique.

And Makensy gained the Remaining HOH, taking her win whole to 11 (or 12 should you rely Elements 2 and three individually). Both manner, it is an unimaginable powerhouse run that gave her sole energy to regulate how her sport ended.

Might Cam persuade her he was price taking, when everyone knows he would not have taken her to the top? Can Chelsie, once we’re fairly certain she would not have taken her. Chelsie was fairly assured she might win in opposition to both of her opponents, however Makensy was positively the harder alternative. That might come right down to who might make a extra compelling argument — the pastor or the athlete.

Within the remaining reckoning, the Jury positively appeared like they already thought Chelsie was the extra deserving winner. And regardless of stay feeders listening to Chelsie inform Makensy time and again she hadn’t even considered what she was going to say, “your lady” was clearly mendacity.

She was as eloquent as anticipated, whereas coming throughout virtually cocky in her self-assuredness. She did not fairly personal her dishonesty within the sport, however completely took possession of even what Makensy claimed was her largest transfer (getting Leah out).

Makensy argued that it was the most important transfer she’d made on her personal, whereas Chelsie argued she’d manipulated Makensy into eliminating somebody who would have hindered her personal sport down the street. Each issues might be true, however Chelse’s declaration mainly negated Makensy’s argument.

The uphill battle was far worse than we thought for Makensy, who wasn’t fairly in a position to articulate why she had a robust sport. Chelsie drilled time and again how she broke down the sport, managed the opposite gamers, gained when she “needed to,” not as a result of she needed to.

Makensy might have argued she allowed Chelsie to really feel that she was loyal and pliant as a result of she knew she could be weak when she wasn’t eligible to compete, so she wanted somebody who might win and would by no means put her up. Seeing that Chelsie needed to play this mastermind sport, she might have argued, her smartest transfer was to have Chelsie shield her when she could not.

She might have argued that her again was in opposition to the wall a lot of the season, and Chelsie was solely ever at risk within the center half. She might have argued a variety of issues, however even she admitted she’s not as eloquent a speaker as Chelsie.

After overcoming one problem after one other all season lengthy to make it to the top, Makensy could not overcome the one she’d made for herself — out-argue a prolific manipulator, liar, and public speaker. It could not be achieved, and so she was achieved.

In a landslide unanimous victory, Chelsie took house the $750,000 prize. After which, in a franchise first, America’s Favourite Participant got here right down to Angela, Quinn, and Tucker — and for the primary time ever, a pre-jury participant gained.

Tucker took house that $50,000 prize, and he received the lady. It wasn’t fairly a Swaggy C proposal second, however he did provide Rubina flowers and apologize for outing their relationship as Quinn’s AI Avatar. It seems like this couple goes to offer it a shot outdoors the Home.

The identical is likely to be attainable for Makensy and Matt, who agreed a “dialog” was available after their very flirtatious 10 days collectively within the Home.

Talking of Matt, he made the remark that in watching the Dwell Feeds, he felt perhaps Angela needed to maneuver on from their feud, however she shut that down fairly aggressively.

“I noticed on the stay feeds that you simply have been questioning if I used to be going to offer you a hug or not,” Matt mentioned, to which Angela shot again, “No. Not likely.”

However that is additionally the lady who mentioned she was simply taking part in round when she misplaced her s–t over the charcuterie board, and lied at one other level about damage emotions. She additionally might have been being sarcastic.

Whereas she took the hug, which was about as awkward as marketed, she then made it clear that she stands by every little thing she mentioned whereas he was within the Home. Poor Angela has but to see how she was obtained outdoors the Home. Although she was High 3 for America’s Favourite, she was additionally a really, very polarizing participant for a few of her habits.

Julie Chen wrapped the present with affirmation that it could be again subsequent summer season for a twenty seventh season. We’re undecided once we’ll have one other season of returning gamers, however they’ve positively been constructing a fairly strong roster of gamers who could be enjoyable to observe once more these previous few years.

This season alone provided some nice personalities who could be enjoyable to see once more. Angela is unquestionably considered one of them, as are the opposite two different finalists for America’s Favourite, Quinn and Tucker. Makensy and Chelsie, clearly.

We additionally really feel there was extra attention-grabbing prospects with Cedric, who did not get practically sufficient time within the Home, in addition to T’kor’s quiet method to the sport (which had full management for some time within the center there — if solely her facet had stored round somebody who might win).

We’re assured that a few of them will likely be again in some unspecified time in the future for one more shot on the grand prize. Till then, we’ll start the hypothesis about some type of mid-season run (unlikely) and await the return of Large Brother subsequent summer season.

In her cowl story with Australian journal Stellar, the 36-year-old singer — whose actual identify is Johanna Rosie Hodges — opens up about when she first met the “Achy Breaky Coronary heart” singer and her relationship regrets.

“He mentioned, I will simply introduce you to everybody else and we will hang around for the remainder of the day,” Firerose mentioned of her first encounter with Cyrus when she was a 22-year-old singer auditioning on a Hollywood lot.

“My intestine intuition, truthfully, was: what does this man need? I most likely ought to have had method higher boundaries,” she recalled. “I used to be in no way [in a romance].”

“However I could not have seen 10 years into the longer term. After I take into consideration what I simply went by, I’d have informed my 22-year-old self to run in the other way and by no means look again,” she continued.

The 2 fell out of contact, solely reconnecting as soon as the pandemic hit they usually collaborated as musicians. The connection finally turned romantic.

“Rapidly, as an alternative of being my regular energetic, outgoing self, I turned very introverted except we had been working or collectively in public, the place I might usually attempt to be overly optimistic as I used to be scared to let anybody see how devastatingly withdrawn I might grow to be,” Firerose mentioned.

“My household and mates all had the identical expertise: me withdrawing and pushing them away. The way in which I skilled it was: ‘Oh, he is simply actually protecting,’” she continued.

Firerose claimed that there have been quite a lot of guidelines to observe as soon as she began courting Cyrus.

Based on Firerose, Cyrus would say: “‘Nicely, you’ll be able to’t dwell that method anymore. You are a Cyrus now. You may’t be going to church. You may’t be going to public locations the place folks may observe you dwelling. You are going to be murdered.’ It sounds loopy, however that is what was taking place.”

She additionally claimed she wasn’t allowed to have a couple of buddy at their wedding ceremony.

“And that was my hairstylist,” Firerose mentioned.

“I used to be allowed to have her over as a result of she was doing my hair. It was fairly hurtful, on reflection, and it breaks my coronary heart. How did I not suppose that that was so bizarre and unacceptable?” she requested. “I justified it like, nicely, that is my life now. I accepted his lunacy as actuality.”

“By the purpose the place I noticed it was too late, what was even worse was he blamed me one way or the other for every little thing that had beforehand gone fallacious in his life,” she claimed.

“For somebody who’s had so many good issues occur to him, and a lot luck and so many blessings, to be that vacant is de facto unhappy. And I assumed, I am simply going to maintain loving him, pouring my coronary heart and soul into this relationship,” she mentioned.

The pair known as it quits on their marriage this previous June, after roughly seven months of marriage. He filed for an annulment, earlier than she accused him of “excessive verbal, emotional and psychological abuse”; the pair finally settled the divorce in August.

Cyrus was beforehand married to Tish Cyrus for nearly three a long time. In 2010, Cyrus filed for divorce, however a number of months later he ended up dropping the request. The couple remained married for a number of years however then Tish filed for divorce in 2013. She rescinded the request only a month later.

The couple’s marriage lastly got here to an finish in April 2022, after they filed for divorce for a 3rd time. Tish later defined that in the course of the pandemic, she really had time to replicate on the connection and what she wished out of life — and realized she ought to have left a lot sooner.

“Throughout that interval, I took a extremely good, laborious take a look at life, my life, and like, ‘What was I gonna do?’ As a result of it had not been in place for a very long time. And I believe I did keep so lengthy out of worry of being alone,” she mentioned on the Name Her Daddy podcast. “I actually did not need Noah [Cyrus] to nonetheless be younger [when we divorced]. However wanting again on it, it will have been a lot better for her had I left.”

Learn extra on Firerose’s marriage to Cyrus on Stellar’s web site.

Recent off his position as Ronald Reagan within the latest Reagan biopic, Quaid spoke at a rally for Trump at Coachella, California on Saturday,

In his speech, he urged attendees that “it is time to choose a aspect” — earlier than asking, “Are we going to be a nation that stands for the Structure? Or for TikTok? Are we going to be a nation of legislation and order? Or large open borders? Which is it? As a result of it’s time to select a aspect.”

That portion of his speech went viral after comic Jason Selvig shared a clip and quipped, “Dennis Quaid asks if we will be ‘a nation of legislation and order’ whereas at a rally for a convicted felon.”

It is that publish that Quaid’s former flame Thomspon then shared to her personal web page, whereas including, “I used to be engaged to him.🤔#VoteBlueToStopTheStupid #crimeisactuallydown”

The Again to the Future Star’s replies had been full of followers telling her she “dodged a bullet” by not marrying him, whereas Holly Robinson Peete reacted to her publish with a collection of “🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️” emojis. Morgan Fairchild, in the meantime, was shocked by the reveal — commenting, “I did not know that!”

Thompson, a vocal supporter of Kamala Harris for president, caught some flack from Trump supporters as effectively.

One wrote, “When did the gorgeous harmless actress in BTF turn into such a bitter hateful soul? Is it value it?” — getting a “I’m a loving joyful individual” reply from Thompson herself.

When another person shared a video of the rally’s crowd, telling the actress, “You lose,” she additionally replied, “All doom and hate.”

Thompson and Quaid met on the set of Jaws 3 again in 1982, acquired engaged in 1984 and break up in 1987. She moved on with and married Howard Deutch in 1989 and so they’ve been collectively ever since; the 2 share two daughters.

Quaid, in the meantime, was later married to Meg Ryan from 1991-2001, Kimberly Buffington from 2004-2018 and married Laura Savoie in 2020. He and Buffington share 16-year-old twins, whereas he and Ryan share actor son Jack Quaid … who has endorsed Harris.

The actress is likely one of the stars for Peacock’s new present Hysteria, set in the course of the top of the Satanic Panic craze of the Nineteen Eighties. Following appearances in tasks like American Werewolf in Paris, Hubie Halloween and Completely Killer, it is the newest spine-chilling undertaking for Bowen, who insists she has no spooky facet herself.

“Not even slightly. I’m the precise reverse,” she advised TooFab. ” I feel it is as a result of I am the right viewers for it. I am petrified of soar scares. My children had been forbidden once they had been little from soar scaring me, or I might take their iPads away.”

“Possibly I am too gullible. It’s totally straightforward for me to get scared. Even generally trying within the mirror on the make-up for Claire Dunphy for Halloween, I might get very scared,” she added. “So no, I like extra psychological. I cherished Let the Proper One In; I cherished the ’80s, Jagged Edge, the sense that one thing dangerous goes to occur, I like that. However soar scares, they freak me out, and blood.”

Whereas horror clearly is not her jam, Bowen stated she loves how Hysteria is extra of a psychological thriller than a slasher. And with themes like youngsters struggling to slot in and the pressures of rising up, it is a fairly relatable one … Satanic murders apart.

“I had an outdated sister. Molly is, and was, very fashionable, very social; regardless of the development was, she knew what it was. She was cool,” she recalled of her personal teen years within the ’80s. “And I used to be her a lot quieter youthful sister. I used to be far more timid. I used to be not good at sports activities. I wasn’t good at being loud. You’ll by no means know I might flip into the particular person I’m now … however I used to be positively a fringe particular person.”

“After I was a young person — and perhaps that is distinctive to me, or women, or teenage women — however there was type of a want to out-emote one another, prefer to have the most important emotions,” she continued. “So we’d typically say that we noticed ghosts, or we’d have an actual creepy feeling after which that may feed on itself after which everybody would turn into hysterical. It was all the time excessive drama. Teenage women, there’s a number of hormones and drama.”

Now, Bowen is a mother to teenagers herself. She shares three sons — together with a 17-year-old and 15-year-old twin boys — with ex-husband Scott Phillips. Whereas she fears her on-screen son falling prey to the satan’s music, in actual life, her considerations aren’t fairly as biblical.

“It is humorous, as a result of I’ve three boys and two of them are twins — not an identical — and none of them are the identical. So my worries with each are very, very totally different,” she advised TooFab. “The place one could also be too social, one not social sufficient, one is just too into this, one’s into that. They’re all very, very totally different individuals.”

“Making an attempt to father or mother, it is like I’ve to be three totally different mother and father. That’s my greatest concern. They’re superb children and thanks Teen Uber, whoever got here up with that,” she exclaimed. “They inform you once they get picked up, the place they get dropped off. Recreation changer, as a result of earlier than that, I did not really feel snug letting them simply name an Uber. However I do not need to go choose somebody up at eleven o’clock at night time. I am outdated and I am drained!”

She could also be drained, however Bowen can also be laborious at work on her subsequent movie, a followup to the Adam Sandler comedy basic Pleased Gilmore. The sequel finds her reprising her position as Virginia Venit from the 1996 movie; with Sandler and Christopher McDonald returning alongside newcomers Margaret Qualley, Dangerous Bunny and Travis Kelce.

“We’re in our third week. I shot yesterday and I am capturing tomorrow,” Bowen stated after we spoke along with her on the finish of September. “Adam is such a loyal and type particular person to his crew and to his buddies, that this, it seems like a reunion.”

“I do know Billy Madison was his first film, however it actually appears like a reunion of everyone from alongside the best way, is all on this film. Together with the manufacturing designer, Perry, who was there 30 years in the past,” she added. “The producers, the director of the unique Pleased Gilmore is on this film, it appears like a reunion and its actually enjoyable.”

See Bowen in motion in Hysteria when it drops in full Friday, October 18 on Peacock. The present may also air Fridays on USA and SYFY.