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Hilarie Burton Morgan is recalling how she and One Tree Hill costar Chad Michael Murray discovered they weren’t returning for season 7 of the long-running collection – and followers are stunned by her candid admission.
In the course of the Sunday, Might 19, episode of her “Drama Queens” podcast, Burton Morgan, 41, informed cohosts and former costars Sophia Bush and Bethany Pleasure Lenz the story of how she and Murray, 42, allegedly weren’t requested again when the present was renewed for an additional season.
Noting that they have been filming a flashback scene in a diner with their respective characters, Peyton Sawyer and Lucas Scott, for season 6, episode 21, Burton Morgan defined that “unexpectedly” their producer, Greg Prange, introduced to everybody that the present had been picked up for a seventh season.
“Chad seems at me and he’s like, ‘Have you ever even gotten a proposal? I used to be like, ‘No,’ and he’s like, ‘I haven’t gotten a proposal,’” she started. “And so round us, everyone seems to be hugging and high-fiving. I imply, it felt like balloons have been dropping from the ceiling. All people was so f–king pumped. And he and I simply sort of sat there and we knew it was coming.”
It’s arduous to look again at teen dramas with out remembering One Tree Hill, and many years later followers are nonetheless speaking about its explosive forged. The collection, created by Mark Schwahn, aired for 9 seasons from 2003 to 2012. It premiered on The WB then moved over to The CW in 2006 when The WB was […]
She added, “And he and I have been the best paid actors on the present, and we knew we have been on the chopping block.”
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Later within the episode, Burton Morgan went on to inform Bush, 41, and Lenz, 43, that the choice to not have her return to the present was a blessing in disguise.
“I feel that is the closure that I wanted as a result of I at all times knew that I used to be proper to stroll away from this example as a result of it was terrible – and my life is superior due to that betrayal,” she stated. “I met my husband [Jeffrey Dean Morgan], I had my youngsters, I received to do White Collar with Willie Garson. My life is so a lot better as a result of I used to be betrayed right here. And that’s the factor that perhaps I would like anyone that listens to this to stroll away with. It’s just like the betrayal simply opened the door for all of the superior s–t that I’ve now.”
Followers have been fast to touch upon Burton Morgan’s facet of the story, as many followers initially thought that the Grimoire Woman creator and Murray selected to go away the present on their very own.
“I at all times thought it was her determination to go away … now I’m mad they didn’t deliver Peyton again together with Lucas afterward,” wrote one fan, who was referring to Murray’s one-episode return as a visitor star within the ninth and ultimate season.
Within the phrases of the good Peyton Sawyer, generally all you want is one — however it could take some time to get there. The characters on One Tree Hill have been in numerous love triangles, went on romantic excursions and even received married in highschool. In actual life, issues weren’t at all times so magical. Though […]
One other added, “Such a mistake to not deliver again Chad and Hilarie. I used to be so upset and the present simply felt completely different after they left.”
The collection, created by Mark Schwahn, aired for 9 seasons from 2003 to 2012. The present adopted two half-brothers, Lucas Scott (Murray) and Nathan Scott (James Lafferty), as they struggled to coexist in the identical city — at highschool and on their basketball crew.
Paul Johansson, Craig Sheffer, Moira Kelly, Antwon Tanner, Lee Norris and Barbara Alyn Woods additionally made up the primary forged when the collection debuted.
After a five-year time leap between season 4 and season 5, followers noticed the previous highschool college students navigate maturity after returning to their (fictional) hometown of Tree Hill, North Carolina.
Throughout an look on Dax Shepard‘s “Armchair Knowledgeable” podcast in 2018, Bush recalled how the the producers “made apply of profiting from individuals’s private lives” for storylines.
For the forged of One Tree Hill, the road between reality and fiction was typically blurred. The present’s stars declare that occasions from their actual lives — from their private pursuits to their traumas — would discover their method into their characters’ storylines. “[The producers] made apply of profiting from individuals’s private lives,” Sophia […]
“It wasn’t OK. It was opportunistic and ugly and while you run a present, you’re like a father or mother, you’re supposed to guard your flock, and it was the other of that,” she informed the Parenthood alum. “I feel they sort of lived for the drama.”
Bush and the opposite ladies of OTH have beforehand spoken out about misconduct behind the scenes of the beloved teen drama — together with harassment allegations in opposition to Schwahn. Together with lots of her costars, Bush penned a letter detailing Schwahn’s misconduct in 2017. The previous forged members stay vocal concerning the harassment allegations to at the present time.
“Till there’s some sort of change in our trade, I don’t know the way we cease [speaking out],” Burton Morgan stated in an April 2023 episode of “Drama Queens,” including, “The one cause that we made it out is as a result of we had one another.”
New episodes of “Drama Queens” could be streamed each Sunday.
