Hilarie Burton says Chad Michael Murray protected her

• Hilarie Burton recalls how Chad Michael Murray defended her.
• Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz were informed by Burton.
• Bush also emphasized the need of having allies.

Hilarie Burton recalls how Chad Michael Murray, a coworker on One Tree Hill, defended her.

Burton, 40, detailed how Murray, 41, intervened to defend her against the showrunner of the adolescent drama, Mark Schwahn, during an alleged assault while they were filming the fourth season of the program in Honey Grove, Texas, on the most recent episode of the Drama Queens podcast.

“Chad walked up and goes, ‘What are you doing?’ He said that to our boss in the bar,” Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz, who were her cohosts and former OTH co-stars, were informed by Burton, who portrayed Peyton Sawyer on the show.

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“He watched our boss grab me in front of a lot of people, and you know, Chad didn’t have anything to lose because he knew our boss hated him anyway,” she continued. “A lot of people had a lot to lose, so you don’t speak up when you have a lot to lose. But [our boss] felt so comfortable that that was not something that he had a problem with. [He thought], ‘I can do whatever I want to her in public with her boyfriend standing there.'”

Bush, who was married to Murray from 2005 to 2006, said she thought Murray’s ability to defend Burton was influenced by his leading position as Lucas Scott on the program.

“He was protected as the No. 1 on the call sheet,” she said. “He had the most power, so he could come up and shove our boss off you and get in a fight. And I’m glad that he did. I want everybody to follow that lead.”

Bush, 40, also emphasized the need of having allies and standing up for people.

“I have sympathy for the reality that people are scared they’re going to put a hole in the ship and then the ship is going to sink, but get over it and protect your people. Because this idea that looking at the ground is OK — it’s not,” she explained. “And thank God, Hilarie, that you had that moment with Chad, who was already so at odds with our boss.”

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