In accordance with Hilton, who portrayed Chris Keller on the hit present, producers leaned into the real-life emotions creating between the 2 actors and wrote a romance into the present for him and her character, Haley James Scott, amid marital woes along with her TV husband Nathan Scott (James Lafferty).

“I began to divine that she was in a cult,” Hilton mentioned throughout a dwell look captured in a TikTok video and shared earlier this week.

“We had so many lovely, deep conversations about faith and stuff and each as soon as and some time I would just get cult vibes,” he elaborated, per E! Information. “So I used to be actually into her, although, and I used to be like, ‘Dude, I am down with cults. I do not care about that s–t.”

Apparently, no less than in keeping with Hilton, when their emotions began to develop stronger, her “cult” made their strategy to one in every of his dwell performances “and so they sussed me out.”

“They had been like, ‘Yeah, he is not the vibe,’” Hilton shared. “She was like, ‘Yeah, the cult mentioned no.’”

In accordance with Hilton, that was the tip of it, too. “I did not actually have a solution for that one,” he mentioned. “Usually, in the event you inform a lady, ‘Oh, is there one thing I can do?’ But when the cult says no, you are f–ked.”

“I might by no means actually been damaged up with by a cult earlier than,” he laughed. “That was a primary time.”

TooFab has reached out to Lenz’s reps for remark.

Lenz has been candid for a number of years now about discovering herself part of a “cult for 10 years” whereas filming the present, even saying that her castmates had tried to avoid wasting her from it.

She first opened up about her expertise on her Drama Queens podcast in July 2023, saying on the time that she thought it will be vaulable to jot down about that, and her decade-long restoration.

The subsequent month, she began to share a bit extra in an interview with Selection in regards to the Bible-based research group she discovered herself getting an increasing number of concerned with, saying that the solid was unable to interrupt their maintain on her as a result of the group got down to “construct a deep wedge of mistrust” between her and her solid.

The affect of the cult even derailed her burgeoning profession, with Lenz turning down movie and theater roles. “All the pieces I might skilled for, all my childhood goals had been coming true and I mentioned no to all of it so I might go dwell with this distant, small group of individuals, satisfied I used to be making a noble, non secular sacrifice,” she mentioned.

Lastly, on October 22, 2024, Lenz’ long-awaited memoir hit bookstore cabinets, detailing her life, profession, and her entanglements with the non secular group she got here to explain as a “cult,” which she went as far as to accuse of stealing her cash and brainwashing her.

Lenz would in the end marry Michael Galeotti Jr., the son of Large Home Household chief Michael Galeotti, which she opened up about extra throughout an look on Name Her Daddy final month. The couple would in the end divorce in 2012 after seven years of marriage. They share teen daughter Rosie.

In response to the memoir, the senior Galeotti instructed Day by day Mail in an interview printed Oct. 22, “All people sees issues just a little in another way and he or she’s going to cling to the celebrity. Good for her. She’s going to make a reputation for herself. Nevertheless it’s not the way in which it went down.”