Sophia Bush

Bush says the women later learned the showrunner had been spreading stories about each of them to the others, which explained her rift with Hilarie Burton.

“years later, we all came to learn our boss was telling every woman on the show stuff about the other women”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 43:52

Bush recounts Daphne Zuniga's suggestion of an anonymized collective statement describing the misconduct.

“if we did a collective statement, we can anonymize who everything happened to, but we can be clear about what happened”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 30:25

Bush describes how senior cast members crashed the showrunner's dinners with new actresses so they would not be alone with him.

“we would act jealous so she wouldn't have to sit alone with him at a restaurant”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 26:53

Bush alleges the showrunner deliberately tried to keep the female cast from trusting each other.

“our boss being so insidious as to really try to make sure the girls wouldn't feel safe to be friends with each other”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 24:14

Bush argues that the belief women are too old or undeserving to want more is a product of patriarchy.

“this idea that it's too late or you're too old or who are you to want more? That's patriarchy”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 1:22:28

Bush argues that men also suffer under patriarchy but do not face the harassment women must navigate daily.

“Men are clearly not happy either in a patriarchal system, but they don't have to deal with what we have to deal with”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 23:05

Bush says she proposed to Harris and they married in a small backyard ceremony.

“got married in the backyard, had dinner. And it was, it was the best, most perfect day ever”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 1:17:59

Bush distinguishes ordinary marital difficulty from suffering.

“You hear people say, marriage is hard. But if hard is suffering, that's not the same thing”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 49:44

Bush denies any overlap between her relationship with Ashlyn Harris and their prior marriages.

“Two people who had filed for divorce and lived in separate residences from their exes went to dinner”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 1:10:31

Bush says that as a young woman in her relationship with Murray she trusted others over her own judgment.

“I trusted every single other person in the room more than I trusted myself”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 38:48

Bush says she defiantly challenged her boss over the increasingly revealing scenes written for her character.

“I literally said to my boss, I go, keep writing these scenes. I dare you”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 18:25

Bush recounts refusing a nude strapless bra meant to make her look topless in a hot tub scene.

“they gave me bathing suit bottoms, but a nude strapless bra. And I was like, no, I want a bathing suit top”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 18:25

Bush says she and her second husband mistook shared commitment to a project for compatibility as partners.

“I absolutely see how we mistook a a melding on something really important as meaning it was important that we were important”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 56:38

Bush contrasts her One Tree Hill experience with working for Shonda Rhimes, whom she praises highly.

“I've also been an actress on a Shonda Rhimes show. I would work for her until the day I die”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 32:48

Bush says 18 women signed their letter, followed by a letter from 25 women on the showrunner's then-current show.

“there were 18 of us who signed our letter to see the response letter of 25 women from the show he was working on at that time”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 32:48

Bush says playing Brooke led her to question why bold women are labeled derogatorily for behavior that earns men praise.

“Because if the boys act like this, they get high fives, but then she gets called something derogatory”

Call Her Daddy: Sophia Bush: Brooke Davis, Breakups & Beginning Again (Oct 21, 2026) · Listen from 14:15