One Tree Hill stars recount being coerced into Maxim photoshoot - The A.V. Club
On a new episode of the recap podcast Drama Queens hosted by Sophia Bush, Hillary Burton, and Joy Lenz, the trio recalled the mind games played by Schwahn and OTH higher-ups to coerce the women into posing for Maxim in 2006.
I just wasn’t a hot girl on the show anymore.” Burton and Bush recalled being told that Lenz turned the opportunity down, putting more pressure on the others to participate: “They scapegoated you to tell the three of us we couldn’t say no.
They threw you under the fucking bus,” Bush said.
“We look uncomfortable, but in the room, I remember being like, ‘I’m looking at my friends, who look stunning, who do look like these ‘50s pin-up girls, and this should be so fun but it’s miserable cause we didn’t choose it,’” Bush reflected.
But the horror story doesn’t stop there: the co-stars also remembered Schwahn turning up to the shoot with a personal gift for Burton—that he delivered in front of Bush and Danneel Ackles.He wanted Sophia to see it to put her in her place, and he wanted Danneel to see it to try and make her jealous