Bethany Joy Lenz Reveals the Unexpected “One Tree Hill ”Costar She 'Developed a Crush on' During Filming

The actress is sharing new details about her on-set dynamics with her 'One Tree Hill' costars in her new book

Bethany Joy Lenz is revealing new details about her on-set dynamics with her One Tree Hill costars, including an unexpected crush she had on one of her costars.

In her new memoir, Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!), Lenz, who played Haley James Scott for the show’s entire nine-season run, details her early beginnings on the series.

In one moment from the book, she recalls her first table read with the entire cast, including Chad Michael Murray, Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton and James Lafferty. Though she previously interacted with Murray during her audition, she notes she was particularly excited to be surrounded by two ‘90s heartthrobs, Paul Johansson and Craig Sheffer, who played brothers Dan and Keith, respectively.

As she recounts their previous acting roles, she notes that Sheffer had a “rugged vibe” that “worked for him very well,” before admitting she had a bit of a crush on him throughout the series.

“I developed a crush on him, too, which Paul would later taunt me about endlessly,” she explained, referencing her longtime friendship with Johansson.

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“The first thing Craig said to me, after doing a double take under the room’s harsh fluorescent lights, was ‘Whoah, you look like a monster!’ Which is always nice for a young woman to hear,” she said of their first interaction.

Lenz later reveals that Sheffer wasn’t the only costar she developed a crush on during filming. Though she notes that many of her male costars were in other relationships at the time, she eventually developed a close bond with Tyler Hilton, who played her fleeting love interest, Chris Keller.

“Tyler and I took up together like two kids in a potato sack race,” she explains, adding they became fast friends as they sang and recorded in Wilmington, N.C., where they show filmed, and later went on tour together.

“Even though he didn’t share my faith (or my Family), I was developing a big crush on him,” she says. However, she says things took a turn when Hilton suspected she was part of a religious cult.

“As the tour continued on, Tyler seemed to want more space away from me,” she recalls. “I didn’t understand why until he called me in my hotel room one night.”

After Hilton’s tour manager caught wind of a potential story about Lenz’s association with a religious cult, she says Hilton addressed her directly about the situation as his name was attached to the story because they had been “hanging out so much.”

Though Lenz denied she was in a religious cult at the time, she says her relationship with Hilton was not quite the same after.

“Tyler always treated me normally from then forward, but I hated having it hang over me. He had become a good friend, crush or no crush, and it hurt to have people keep distancing themselves from me.”

In an interview for a new cover story with PEOPLE, Lenz recalls that Sheffer was one of the first costars to address her potentially being in a cult.

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“We were sitting at the bleachers filming a basketball scene at Laney High School, and he started asking me questions about my family,” says Lenz.

She began to tell him all about her "chosen family," a tight-knit group of deeply religious friends she’d met at a Bible study in Los Angeles who lived in a commune-like house in Idaho where they were led by a pastor she calls "Les" in the book.

“Eventually Craig goes, ‘You know you're in a cult, right?' " Lenz writes.

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It would take her eight more years before she left for the sake of her daughter, though Lenz says her castmates were certainly cognizant of her ties to the religious group.

"I could see it on their faces," she says of her One Tree Hill costars, about what they knew and thought about it.

"But I'd justify it, like, 'I couldn't possibly be in a cult,' " Lenz explains. "It's just that I've got access to a relationship with God and people in a way that everybody else really wants, but they don't know how to get it."

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