Sophia Bush and Bethany Pleasure Lenz aren't pleased with the best way a few of their One Tree Hill costars had been written off the present.

"I want we might have seen Haley [Lenz's character on the show] studying a letter from Lucas [Chad Michael Murray] simply to listen to what was happening of their lives," Lenz mentioned on yesterday's episode of the Drama Queens podcast, answering a listener query. The fan then requested what Lucas and Peyton (Hilarie Burton Morgan's character), who had been written off the present after season 6, could be "as much as" now, prompting a spherical of head scratches from Lenz, Bush, and cohost Robert Early Buckley.

"I don't even keep in mind the place they moved. The place did they go?" Lenz requested.

"They left in a convertible, so I'm gonna guess possibly the West Coast the place it's a bit hotter and fewer wet," Buckley speculated.

"I don't know," Bush mentioned flatly, including, "That is the issue: They didn't give us sufficient to make the place our pals went make sense."

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"It's bizarre, and I do know we introduced this up, clearly, with the powers that be on the time," Bush, who performed reformed get together woman Brooke Davis on all 9 seasons of the collection, continued. "I really feel prefer it was extra a private beef than something that made sense for our characters, which is unlucky…. I used to ask, 'Why can't Brooke be getting textual content messages from Peyton? Why can't you see them texting? Like, why am I not getting photograph updates of this child? It feels actually bizarre.'"

Bush and Burton's characters on the collection had been finest pals, making Peyton's radio silence after driving away from the fictional North Carolina city of Tree Hill perplexing.

"And Karen," Lenz added, citing the character performed by Moira Kelly, who was additionally dispatched after six seasons, "like everyone, they only pale off into the gap. I do want they’d saved that up in some extra clear method. I don't suppose it could have been laborious."

Murray and Burton's characters had probably the most shipped romances on TV within the 2000s. When Peyton lastly gave beginning to their youngster, Sawyer Brooke Scott, it appeared that the One Tree Hill household had gained one other main participant, not that it was gearing as much as lose two, however the episode closes with the younger household driving off into the sundown, with solely Murray making a cameo on a later episode.

"I feel it was some form of private beef behind the scenes that they’d identical to — not they, however he, our creator, simply didn't wanna have. He hoped the viewers would simply neglect about them," reasoned Lenz, referring to collection creator Mark Schwahn.

"Which appears so silly," Bush noticed, "as a result of it's a selection rooted in ego, and it's like, 'Dude, you wrote these characters, so that you knew they had been nice. So why are we all of a sudden pretending they're not?'"

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Burton has spoken about her and Murray's exit from the collection previously, noting in 2021, "Chad had nothing to do with my leaving. We had been each handled badly, and he defended me…. I simply wished to make clear that Chad was my teammate. My bosses had been the s—-."

Murray has been much less outspoken on the difficulty, however mentioned of his time on the collection final 12 months, "There was a second the place I used to be quitting. I used to be carried out. I simply couldn't do it anymore…as a result of, whenever you're 18 to 25, these formidable years the place you're actually chopping your enamel on life experiences and your mind isn't absolutely developed, you make errors." Although he discovered from these errors, he mentioned, "it's laborious for me to see previous these moments whenever you're not grownup sufficient to know the eventualities that you simply're in."

Take heed to the remainder of Bush, Lenz, and Buckley's dialog on Drama Queens under.

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