Singer Tyler Hilton, who had a recurring role on the teen drama, revealed this week he had tried to date co-star Bethany Joy Lenz, but her cult got in the way. "We were getting closer and closer and then I started getting the vibe that she was in a cult," he told audience members at a Nov. 18 concert in a video captured via TikTok.

Chris Keller and Haley James Scott IRL?! According to Tyler Hilton, he and Bethany Joy Lenz formed a close bond during One Tree Hill but their romantic connection got shut down. “The book talked a lot about personal stuff and I went through a lot of that with her,

Lenz, who played Haley James Scott on the hit show, previously revealed that she was a member of the “Big House Family” cult while she was filming the series.

"So I was really into her though and I was like, 'Dude, I'm down with cult, I don’t care about that s---'"Tyler Hilton once tried to date his former One Tree Hill costar Bethany Joy Lenz — but the "high control group" she was part of (a group she and others later described as a "cult") didn't approve.

Actress Bethany Joy Lenz has revealed one of her One Tree Hill co-star's was keen to date her but when she was part of a 'cult' they quickly ruled him out.

After his co-star detailed her experience as a member of The Big House Family, which she has described as a “cult,” while shooting the WB series in her memoir ‘Dinner for Vampires’, Tyler shares with a live crowd on November 19th how the organization interfered with their budding romance.