One Tree Hill actresses Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton have claimed they were strong-armed into doing their 2006 Maxim shoot while on the show.

Throwback: Sophia Bush (center) and Hilarie Burton (left)  have claimed they were strong-armed into doing their 2006 Maxim shoot with their co-star Danneel Harris Ackles (right)!

The cover starred Bush and Burton alongside their co-star Danneel Harris Ackles, as cross-promotion connected to an episode of One Tree Hill where Burton's character Brooke snaps Ackles' character Rachel for a 'Hometown Hotties' Maxim cover. .

Bush said that 'we got told we had to do [Maxim], and I – because Brooke had been so sexualized on the show, and the whole idea of this like hometown hottie was Rachel’s storyline, I was like: “Look, if the girls wanna do it, that’s great.

Nowadays: Burton (left), Bush (right) and their old co-star Bethany Joy Lenz (center) made the allegations on their new podcast; they are all pictured together in September.

They way they were: Bush, Lenz and Burton are pictured together in a publicity shot for the show during its run, which lasted from 2003 to 2012.

'And it'll be your fault,' Bush added, explaining that their employers would be able to punitively keep her on set even on days she was not scheduled to shoot by booking her in for other work-related commitments like wardrobe fittings.

All together now: Lenz, Bush and Burton are all pictured at FYE in New York City at an event to sign autographs for One Tree Hill fans in 2005

Lenz then claimed that she was told that Ackles had been selected to replace her on the Maxim shoot because of Lenz' weight

'They told me that they didn't come to me because I was too fat and I just wasn't like, I wasn't the hot girl, I wasn't like a hot girl on the show anymore,' she said

Her co-stars were flabbergasted by Lenz' bombshell, and Burton exclaimed: 'Joy, they told us they asked you and you said no!' 

With mounting fury, Bush added that 'when I said: "I don't wanna do it," I was like: "But Joy's not doing it

Quintet: Lenz, Burton and Bush are pictured between their One Tree Hill co-stars James Lafferty (left) and Chad Michael Murray (right) in New York in 2004