Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton Detail Why ‘One Tree Hill’ Cast Must Keep Talking About Harassment Allegations

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Standing together. The women of One Tree Hill first went public with harassment allegations against creator Mark Schwahn in 2017, and six years later, the actresses say it’s important to keep talking about his alleged actions.“Until there’s some kind of change in our industry, I don’t know how we stop [speaking out],” Hilarie Burton Morgan said on the Monday, April 17, episode of the “Drama Queens” podcast. “The only reason that we made it out is because we had each other.Cohosts Burton, 40, Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz were joined by Danneel Ackles (née Harris) to recap the OTH season 4 finale.

While discussing the episode, they recalled tension with Schwahn, 56, coming to a boiling point.The showrunner — whose name is censored on the podcast — allegedly was rubbing actresses’ shoulders and putting his arms around them between takes, making the women feel uncomfortable, so Burton told him to stop touching them.

He later screamed at the White Collar alum with her brother, boyfriend and boyfriend’s father in the next room, Burton alleged.

No one came in to defend her. Eventually, an executive producer came in to break the tension.“What you experienced that night, the way you got yelled at, that’s exactly the s–t I was dealing with in Chicago and also had a group of men who … never got involved and never stood up,” Bush, 40, said, referring to her four-season stint on Chicago P.D. “And I know some of them are mad that I acknowledge that when we talk about this show as well, and you know what?