Bethany Pleasure Lenz Hopeful She and Hilarie Burton Can ‘Determine Out’ Their ‘Misunderstandings’

Whereas showing on the Name Her Daddy podcast Wednesday, Lenz mentioned she does not have “any drawback” with Burton and is hopeful that the pair can work out the “misunderstandings” which have apparently cropped up since they reunited for his or her OTR rewatch podcast, Drama Queens, in 2021.

“I like Hilarie,” Lenz, who performed Haley James Scott on the present for its total nine-season run, maintained. “I’ve all the time and can all the time and I haven’t got any drawback along with her.”

“There have been some weird misunderstandings that I actually hope we are able to work out someday, however I like that woman,” she added.

Followers began speculating that there was bother in paradise between the previous co-stars after it appeared that Burton, who performed Peyton Sawyer on the beloved teen drama, had unfollowed or blocked Lenz on Instagram.

Some followers consider Burton was upset that Lenz’s guide cowl resembles her 2023 memoir, Grimoire Woman, although Burton has by no means commented on the hypothesis.

The ladies teamed as much as host their podcast with co-star Sophia Bush starting in 2021, and had been co-hosting the present as a trio till July, when Burton introduced she was stepping again from her internet hosting gig and Robert Buckley (who performed Clay Evans from 2009 to 2012) took her place.

“We’ve got reached the top of my behind-the-scenes expertise on the present, and so I actually began to query what I dropped at this, but additionally how we maintain that storytelling alive and essential,” Burton, who starred within the sequence from seasons 1-6 mentioned on the time. “And so, as we head into seasons 7 by way of 9, it was essential that we launched a brand new queen who may take over for me.”

The actress did, nonetheless, say that she was going to “pop in” to the podcast when she will be able to. She launched Buckley as somebody “who represented the identical issues that I’ve dropped at this present.”

Burton additionally mentioned she felt like she may “lastly take a deep breath” when her Drama Queens episodes ended.

“Each single week, it was, ‘Oh my God, I gotta inform that story. Oh, my god. We’ve got to relive that.’ And there’s, clearly, like, a lot good things that was in it,” she added. “However I must kinda psych myself up each week.”

Elsewhere throughout the interview, Lenz opened opened up in regards to the cult she was in whereas filming OTH, which admittedly affected her relationships along with her co-stars, telling Name Her Daddy host, Alex Cooper that issues had been “exhausting” with Bush whereas they had been filming.

“We’re going by way of the motions of shut friendship however not really figuring out find out how to join,” Lenz shared. “It is exhausting.”

She continued, “I believe we had been each approaching life from an identical manner, however from reverse views. She would have been far more fast to hearken to my perspective and listen to me than I’d have been on the time. However I believe basically there was in all probability a similarity.”

Lenz mentioned whereas she and Bush have not spoken in depth about this, they’ve mentioned Lenz’s distance from the solid throughout the present’s run on the podcast.

“A little bit bit, not as a lot as I’d have appreciated,” the Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Present (Whereas additionally in an Precise Cult!) creator mentioned.

“On Drama Queens, we positively talked about our time again then and what was exhausting and the way nice it was to reconnect and the sentiments of unraveling issues that had been so mysterious to us on the time. However no, it is an ever-evolving journey. There are nonetheless loads of individuals in my life that I… man, disgrace is a troublesome factor.”