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 reside 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, at the very least in accordance with Hilton, when their emotions began to develop stronger, her “cult” made their method to one in every of his reside performances “and so they sussed me out.”

“They have been like, ‘Yeah, he isn’t the vibe,’” Hilton shared. “She was like, ‘Yeah, the cult mentioned no.’”

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

“I would 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 save lots of 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 might be vaulable to put in writing about that, and her decade-long restoration.

The following month, she began to share a bit extra in an interview with Selection in regards to the Bible-based examine group she discovered herself getting an increasing number of concerned with, saying that the forged 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 forged.

The affect of the cult even derailed her burgeoning profession, with Lenz turning down movie and theater roles. “Every thing I would skilled for, all my childhood goals have been coming true and I mentioned no to all of it so I may go reside 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 finally marry Michael Galeotti Jr., the son of Huge Home Household chief Michael Galeotti, which she opened up about extra throughout an look on Name Her Daddy final month. The couple would finally divorce in 2012 after seven years of marriage. They share teen daughter Rosie.

In response to the memoir, the senior Galeotti informed Each day Mail in an interview revealed Oct. 22, “All people sees issues somewhat in a different way and she or he’s going to cling to the celebrity. Good for her. She’s going to make a reputation for herself. Nevertheless it’s not the best way it went down.”