What Sophia Bush has said about Sexual harassment on the One Tree Hill set

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 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 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 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