One Tree Hill Ladies Declare They Had been Threatened Into Doing Maxim Cowl Shoot

Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton, and Bethany Pleasure Lenz dropped some bombshell claims about how that shoot took place on the most recent episode of their “Drama Queens” podcast — what beleaguered creator Mark Schwahn instructed them and why Lenz wasn’t a part of it.

Maxim was really part of the present’s inside narrative as nicely, with the journal that includes as a part of a storyline the place Bush’s Brooke took footage of Rachel (Daneel Ackles) for the publication.

A month later, Bush was joined by Ackles and Burton on the quilt of the true journal, however she was undoubtedly there reluctantly, per the podcast.

The ladies declare that the quilt shoot was all a part of a concerted effort to herald male viewers. These efforts additionally allegedly included having the ladies of their underwear extra and introducing an abusive male character, Matt Barr’s “Psycho Derek.”

“I do know they weren’t making an attempt to solicit basement bullies on the web,” mentioned Bush, per Selection. “However they noticed that numerous younger males had been drawn to a violent assault of ladies they usually went, ‘We should always do extra of that.’”

Bush mentioned that when approached about the true Maxim cowl shoot, she turned it down. “I’ve gone to battle making an attempt to make Brooke much less of this factor that you simply guys tried to pressure me into. I don’t wish to do it,” she recalled.

In keeping with Bush, the response she obtained was, “If you don’t go and shoot this cowl along with your co-stars, we are going to assure you that you’ll by no means be set free for a press day, a film, an occasion, any of your charities. We are going to hold you right here for ever.”

Burton then claimed that Schwahn took a considerably completely different method along with her, telling her that each different present solid had carried out journal covers and “nobody desires you guys.”

“It was very a lot a, ‘Nobody else desires you, the studio desires to cancel your present,'” mentioned Burton. “You don’t begin to generate some buzz and appeal to these male numbers, we’re lifeless and all your mates are going to lose their jobs.”

The ladies additionally claimed that Schwahn confirmed up on the shoot and gifted Burton an iPod with songs he thought she would possibly like — one thing they are saying he deliberately did in entrance of the opposite ladies.

“He wished Sophia to see it, to place her in her place and he wished Danneel to see it, as a result of he was making an attempt to make her jealous,” Burton claimed. “I used to be so embarrassed.”

Because it seems, the ladies uncovered one other piece of a few of that alleged pitting them towards one another in actual time throughout the podcast when Lenz opened up about not being a part of the Maxim shoot.

They instructed me that they didn’t come to me as a result of I used to be too fats,” she instructed her former co-stars, who had been surprised by the revelation. “I wasn’t a sizzling lady on the present anymore.”

In keeping with Burton and Bush, not solely had been they instructed that Lenz was requested and refused, that refusal was weaponized towards their very own reluctance to participate.

“After I mentioned I don’t wish to do it, I used to be like, ‘However Pleasure’s not doing it! She mentioned no. Why does she get to say no?’ They go, ‘Properly she mentioned no, so it’s important to say sure. She mentioned no first,'” Bush mentioned. “They scapegoated you to inform the three of us we couldn’t say no.”

Lenz went on to say that the narrative of her being “fats” and never one of many “sizzling ladies” carried into the present, along with her character being known as “a fats lady with just a little head” in an episode shortly thereafter.

“From that time ahead, I began getting handled like, ‘Simply put Pleasure within the class of middle-age mother. We’re gonna do the attractive stuff with all people else,'” she mentioned, saying she obtained changed in that function by Ackles.

The ladies of “One Tree Hill” have beforehand alleged that Schwahn would try to pit them one towards the opposite. In an open letter to Selection, 18 ladies who labored on the present accused him of sexual harassment.

Within the letter, he was accused of inappropriate conduct on set from these engaged on “One Tree Hill,” earlier than these engaged on “The Royals” made comparable claims in 2017, resulting in him being fired from the present.

Among the many allegations: Burton claimed Schwahn forcibly kissed her and put his palms down her pants at a live performance, whereas costar Ackles backed up her account. Schwahn has by no means responded to the allegations.