One Tree Hill’s Bethany Joy Lenz Breaks Silence connected Hilarie Burton Feud Rumors
Bethany Joy Lenz is getting candid astir her off-screen friendships.
The One Tree Hill alum shared that she and costar Sophia Bush had a falling retired portion filming the aboriginal 2000s teen play bid owed to her yearslong engagement successful the ultra-Christian enactment The Big House Family, which she has antecedently referred to arsenic a “cult.”
"I was utilizing religion arsenic my benchmark," Bethany wrote successful her memoir Dinner for Vampires: Life connected a Cult TV Show (While besides successful an Actual Cult!) per People. "My budding relationship with saccharine Sophia became a casualty of this and alternatively of sitting shiva for my ego, I truly f--king privation I could crook backmost time, locomotion into her trailer, and springiness her a long, hard hug."
As for however Bethany's engagement successful the enactment impacted their friendship? The White Collar alum—who near the Big House Family shortly aft the 2011 commencement of her daughter, Rosie, who she shares with ex-husband Michael Galeotti Jr.—said that Sophia's behaviour often went against her position connected however a pistillate should operate.
"As bubbly and compassionate arsenic she was, she was adjacent much intelligent... Her caput could person been enactment to bully usage by NASA—except, of course, she's truthful beauteous the astronauts would ne'er privation to permission Earth," Bethany explained. "I failed to announcement that she was besides trying hard."
Noting that Sophia was "frequently favored and perpetually underestimated successful beingness due to the fact that of her beauty," she added, "Sophia worked obsessively astatine proving her value."
And their rift was particularly achy for the 43-year-old, who said she deed it disconnected with Sophia astatine the commencement of shooting the series. In fact, the brace adjacent adopted pit bull puppies unneurotic earlier Bethany realized she "wasn't equipped to get excessively adjacent to Sophia."
"Sophia herself was besides hilarious," she shared successful her memoir, per the outlet, "and a spot mischievous—always down for an impulsive adventure."
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And portion Sophia (who played Brooke Davis connected the show) and Bethany (Haley James Scott) continued to play friends connected surface passim One Tree Hill's nine-season run, it wasn't until they began hosting their Drama Queens podcast successful 2021 alongside chap alum Hilarie Burton that they began unpacking their past tension.
“On Drama Queens," Bethany revealed connected the Oct. 16 occurrence of the Call Her Daddy podcast, "we decidedly talked astir our clip backmost past and what was hard and however large it was to reconnect and the feelings of unraveling things that were truthful mysterious to america astatine the time."
But she besides admitted that their narration is inactive a enactment successful progress. As Bethany enactment it, "It’s an ever-evolving journey."
E! News reached retired to Sophia's rep for remark but has not heard back.
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