Hilarie Burton has recounted how her One Tree Hill costar Chad Michael Murray defended her towards the present’s creator and showrunner Mark Schwahn throughout an alleged assault.
Talking on the Drama Queens podcast, Burton recalled the incident which passed off whereas the teenager drama was on location in Honey Grove, Texas in 2007.
She advised her cohosts and former One Tree Hill costars, Sophia Bush and Bethany Pleasure Lenz, “Chad walked up and goes, ‘What are you doing?’ He mentioned that to our boss within the bar… He watched our boss seize me in entrance of lots of people, and you already know, Chad didn’t have something to lose trigger he knew our boss hated him anyway.” She continued, “Lots of people had loads to lose, so that you don’t communicate up when you could have loads to lose. However (our boss) felt so comfy that that was not one thing that he had an issue with. (He thought), ‘I can do no matter I wish to her in public along with her boyfriend standing there.’”
Bush shared that she believed Murray’s starring function as Lucas Scott on the present contributed to his means to defend Burton. Stated Bush, “He was protected because the No. 1 on the decision sheet. He had essentially the most energy, so he may come up and shove our boss off you and get in a struggle. And I’m glad that he did. I need all people to observe that lead.”
Bush additionally talked in regards to the significance of defending others. “This concept that wanting on the floor is OK — it’s not,” she mentioned. “And thank God, Hilarie, that you just had that second with Chad, who was already so at odds with our boss.”
Schwahn has by no means spoken about any of the allegations, however was later fired from E!’s The Royals in 2017. His downfall started when TV author Audrey Wauchope accused the OTH creator and showrunner of sexual harassment through the time she and her writing associate, Rachel Specter, labored on the CW drama. The duo had been quickly joined by quite a lot of different former OTH solid and crew members, together with Bush, Burton and Lenz, who signed an open letter detailing harassment by Schwahn. They described being “manipulated psychologically and emotionally,” “put in uncomfortable positions,” “threatened” and feeling “bodily unsafe” whereas on the present. The ladies have acquired assist from their male counterparts, with quite a lot of OTH stars standing by their colleagues in social media messages.
Quickly after the allegations got here out, Schwahn was suspended and subsequently fired from The Royals.
