2026-02-27
1 小时 27 分钟Sup, Daddy Gang.
It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy.
Bethany Joy Lenz, welcome to Call Her Daddy.
Thank you.
Your book, Dinner for Vampires, comes out this week.
Congratulations.
How are you feeling?
I feel proud of it.
You know, people often ask me, are you excited?
And I'm thinking,
excited is not the right adjective because I It's not a story that I was ever really dying to tell.
It's not like I thought, oh, this is great material.
I just lived through something traumatic and you go through therapy and you want to just work through it in your private life.
That became part of the healing was recognizing how relatable my story was to so many other people who hadn't been in something as dramatic as a cult.
And yet somehow I was finding myself in conversations with so many women in particular,
but so many people who had found themselves in this kind of dynamic yeah relationally and the more I had that conversation the more that brought healing to me and then when the opportunity
for writing a book came up it just felt like this is the right thing to do it's also What good are our mistakes
if we can't?
It's honestly one of the things I love about you and listening to your show is that there's this sense of like an open It's actually really wonderful and really comforting to see somebody just living in this space of,
I don't know,