One Tree Hill's Bethany Pleasure Lenz Reveals Past Fallout With Sophia Bush
One Tree Hill alum Bethany Pleasure Lenz admitted that she and costar Sophia Bush didn't get along while filming the teen drama series on account of her involvement in the Christian “cult” The Broad Home Family.
Bethany Pleasure Lenz is getting candid about her off-show conceal friendships.
The One Tree Hill alum shared that she and costar Sophia Bush had a falling out while filming the early 2000s teen drama series on account of her yearslong involvement in the ultra-Christian organization The Broad Home Family, which she has previously in most cases known as a “cult.”
“I became once the spend of religion as my benchmark,” Bethany wrote in her memoir Dinner for Vampires: Lifestyles on a Cult TV Deliver (While also in an Real Cult!) per Folks. “My budding friendship with sweet Sophia grew to alter proper into a casualty of this and as an different of sitting shiva for my ego, I if fact be told f–king wish I could turn abet time, stroll into her trailer, and give her a lengthy, inspiring hug.”
As for how Bethany's involvement in the organization impacted their friendship? The White Collar alum—who left the Broad Home Family shortly after the 2011 beginning of her daughter, Rosie, who she shares with ex-husband Michael Galeotti Jr.—said that Sophia's behavior in most cases went against her standpoint on how a woman must operate.
“As bubbly and compassionate as she became once, she became once rather more interesting… Her solutions could had been put to appropriate spend by NASA—as opposed to, for sure, she's so beautiful the astronauts would never wish to leave Earth,” Bethany outlined. “I failed to ogle that she became once also attempting inspiring.”
Noting that Sophia became once “repeatedly favored and constantly underestimated in existence on account of her beauty,” she added, “Sophia worked obsessively at proving her price.”
And their rift became once especially painful for the 43-one year-ragged, who said she take to each and each other with Sophia in the origin of shooting the series. In actuality, the pair even adopted pit bull pups collectively sooner than Bethany realized she “wasn't equipped to get too shut to Sophia.”
“Sophia herself became once also hilarious,” she shared in her memoir, per the outlet, “and a runt bit playful—constantly down for an impulsive adventure.”
And while Sophia (who performed Brooke Davis on the show) and Bethany (Haley James Scott) continued to play pals on show conceal all the map by One Tree Hill's 9-season flee, it wasn't except they started web hosting their Drama Queens podcast in 2021 alongside fellow alum Hilarie Burton that they started unpacking their past stress.
“On Drama Queens,” Bethany printed on the Oct. 16 episode of the Name Her Daddy podcast, “we with out a doubt talked about our time abet then and what became once inspiring and the map sizable it became once to reconnect and the sentiments of unraveling things that had been so mysterious to us on the time.”
But she also admitted that their relationship is mild a work in progress. As Bethany put it, “It’s an ever-evolving trot.”
E! News reached out to Sophia's acquire for comment but has now not heard abet.
Read on for more secrets from the One Tree Hill solid…
1. Creator Label Schwahn on the origin wrote the project as a movie known as Ravens and it took four years for Warner Bros. TV executives to convince him to turn it proper into a series.
2. Believing the fashioned title to be too sports-centric, the show's title got here from the U2 tune “One Tree Hill” off their Joshua Tree album. Every episode of the series became once named after a tune from various artists, ranging from Dashboard Confessional to R.E.M.
3. After reading for the half of Ryan on The O.C., Chad Michael Murray turned it down to basic individual as Lucas, the brooding creator and basketball player. Despite the proven truth that producers on the origin envisioned him as Nathan after his unpleasant boy activates Gilmore Girls and Dawson's Creek, Murray connected to Lucas—as his mother left his family when he became once young—and pushed to be solid in the characteristic.
4. Bethany Pleasure Lenz auditioned for Haley and Brooke, but didn't if fact be told wish to play the latter, admitting to reading it the the same intention she be taught the ancient. The the relaxation series regular to be solid, Lenz dyed her blonde hair darkish and straightened her natural curls to uncover apart herself from Hilarie Burton, who performed Peyton.
5. James Lafferty, then 17, had more trip taking half in basketball than acting and knew he had his work decrease out for him to land the half of Nathan. “I don't like I became once an preliminary chance,” Lafferty said in a in the abet of-the-scenes featurette, revealing he had to audition six cases.
He wasn't unsuitable. Accepted executive producer Joe Davola, “When James went into casting he became once a uncomfortable horse to get the job.”
6. While she wasn't in the pilot, Sophia Bush made her debut as Brooke in the second episode and went on to seem every week after, even stepping in the abet of the camera to command three cases.
7. One one year after they met on effect of residing, Murray and Bush acquired engaged in 2004, marrying lower than a one year later. But five months after that, recordsdata broke that that they had split. In 2018, Bush unfolded about what it became once admire continuing to work with her ex-husband on an episode of Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast.
“There became once no effect of residing to self-deem,” Bush said, collectively with that producers had been “if fact be told deeply spoiled” to each and each her and Murray after their breakup.
“They ran, admire, TV classified ads about it, it became once if fact be told gruesome,” she continued. “They made voice of taking profit of contributors's inside of most lives, and now not proper for me and for my ex, for other actors on the show who would half as you produce in case you get shut to contributors. Deeply inside of most things that had been happening of their lives and they would wind up in storylines. It wasn't OK.”
8. Bush would later date Lafferty in 2008 sooner than placing up a romance with Austin Nichols, who performed her husband Julian on OTH. The couple known because it quits in 2012, the the same one year the series ended.
9. There became once one a success on-effect of residing match: Lisa Goldstein, who performed Millie in the later seasons, married Brendan Kirsch, the show's basketball coordinator, in 2011.
10. Right by an episode of her podcast Drama Queens, which she co-hosts with Bush and Lenz, Burton printed her husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan became once nearly her colleague on OTH.
“You know after I met Jeff, he became once admire, 'Oh I auditioned for that show,'” she said, revealing he had be taught for the half of Keith, Lucas' father resolve, a characteristic that went to Craig Sheffer. “'And I became once admire, wait, what?'”
11. Burton and Morgan would as an different get launched by her co-basic individual Danneel Ackles, whose husband Jensen Ackles shaped a shut reference to The Strolling Ineffective basic individual after Morgan performed his father on Supernatural.
12. In a monstrous originate letter printed November 2017, 18 solid and crew contributors levied sexual harassment accusations against Schwahn, hinting about the darkish atmosphere that existed on effect of residing
In her 2020 memoir The Rural Diaries: Like, Cattle, and Broad Lifestyles Lessons Down on Mischief Farm, Burton wrote of Schwahn, “In my specific fairy chronicle there had been a villain who pitted female actors against one but one more, pushed us to produce gratuitous sex scenes that constantly left me feeling unwell and ashamed, told young female actors to stick their chests out, put his hands on all of us, and pushed himself on me, forcing undesirable kisses.”
13. Additionally, Bush also spoke out about her trip for the length of a June 2021 appearance on the Chicks in the Office podcast, claiming that she and her One Tree Hill co-stars—who she didn't title—had been being controlled and manipulated by unspecified adults on effect of residing.
“We had grown-u.s.a.who we relied on, who now we perceive had been being if fact be told controlling and manipulative—who didn't settle on us to be shut 'reason they idea we would band collectively and request for more cash,” Bush alleged. “It's proper so unfamiliar and these had been proper things we had been now not responsive to on the time.”
14. After six seasons, Murray and Burton exited the series in 2009. However the seeds for Burton's departure had been planted noteworthy earlier, she printed in her memoir.
After her dear buddy Scott Kirkpatrick became once killed while serving in Iraq in the summertime of 2007, her existence “took a turn,” she wrote, his demise snapping her “priorities and objectives abet into point of curiosity.”
“I had spent the final few years wandering, never if fact be told finding my characteristic, but I mandatory more,” she outlined. “I mandatory a family. I mandatory a home that on the total is a refuge and a clean canvas that would allow me to daydream, to hold dangers, to hold a ogle at and fail and test up on once more. I mandatory to push myself day-after-day. I mandatory to produce every second intentional. Wake up deliberately. Work deliberately. Eat deliberately. And relaxation deliberately.” So she stop, started writing a unique and booked a one-intention designate to Paris.
15. At the time, nevertheless, Schwahn told a neighborhood of fans in Paris that their departures had been on account of a contract dispute, in step with The Los Angeles Times. “I know they've been equipped sizable things, and with any luck they'll make a resolution to intention abet abet,” he said. “If they don't that's constantly a chance…[the show] has made it by about a of the riskier strikes we've carried out.”
Murray also spoke out to the show's viewers, saying in a video, “They're now not bringing me abet subsequent one year…resulting from they’ve to economize. Initiating operating a blog and being pissed off.” While Burton never returned, Murray made an appearance in the relaxation season.
16. In a fearless pass, One Tree Hill staged a time-leap in season six, selecting to forgo the college years to satisfy up with the characters as adults.
“At the same time as you happen to ogle abet and leer identical exhibits to ours are trying to produce that leap from excessive college into the subsequent chapter of these characters' lives,” Lafferty told E! News in 2015, “it's form of awkward and clunky and it doesn't work that well.”
17. Country singer Jana Kramer joined OTH for its remaining three seasons and printed on her podcast Squawk Down that one unnamed solid member “made it hell” for all americans else on the series, alleging she became once now not allowed to be pals with Lafferty.
“As soon as I became once on the show…there became once proper some, now not cattiness, but proper, 'You have to well't consult with this individual in case you're pals with this individual,'” she said in a 2021 episode. “So I wasn't very shut to James on account of sure scenarios on the effect of residing on the time.”
18. In 2010, solid member Antwon Tanner became once sentenced to about a months in prison for his characteristic in a rip-off to sell stolen Social Security Numbers all over direct traces. The actor, who performed Antwon “Talents” Taylor, pled responsible after getting caught in a sting operation attempting to hawk 16 phony Social Security Numbers and three untrue cards in 2009.
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