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Bethany Joy Lenz Says "One Tree Hill" Creator Sought To "Humiliate" Her With Storylines

Lenz isn’t the first <i>One Tree Hill</i> actor to come forward with allegations of mistreatment at the hands of the show’s creator.

Five years later, Lenz and co-stars Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton were among 18 women who supported former One Tree Hill writer Audrey Wauchope after she accused Schwahn of emotional manipulation and sexual harassment in 2017. In 2022, Burton and Bush recalled how One Tree Hill producers were so “fixated” with “male numbers in viewership” that they allegedly forced the female actors to pose for a men’s magazine. Appearing on the Call Her Daddy podcast last week, she spoke at length about her decade-long involvement with the Big House Family, which she readily described as a cult.

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