Hilarie Burton Reflects On Speaking Out Against One Tree Hill Showrunner
Hilarie Burton reflects on speaking out against One Tree Hill showrunner Mark Schwahn. The series premiered on The WB in 2003 and enjoyed nine seasons of success before ending in 2012, moving to The CW after season 3 due to the network's merger with UPN. Set in the titular town in North Carolina, One Tree Hill begins by following the lives of two half-brothers, Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan Scott (James Lafferty), who compete for spots on their high school basketball team.
The series also follows the drama that ensues from the brothers' various romances, including with their frequent love interests Brooke Davis, Peyton Sawyer, and Haley James Scott, which were played by Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton, and Bethany Joy Lenz, respectively. Now, the former One Tree Hill trio has reunited on a recent episode of CBS' medical drama Good Sam. This onscreen reunion, coupled with the trio's rewatch podcast Drama Queens, have both served to shed further light on the sexual harassment accusations made by the One Tree Hill cast against showrunner Mark Schwahn in 2017.
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During a conversation with Variety, Burton reflected on speaking out against Schwahn five years ago. The One Tree Hill actress says she and her co-stars expected an apology or at least a conversation with someone about the accusations but alas, they were met with silence. Burton was disappointed in the situation at the time, though she has now been able to move past it and begin healing. Read her full comments below:
I mean, me personally, for a long time, I kept waiting for someone to reach out. In my mind, I was like, surely, someone’s going to say something to us. Surely, someone is
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