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 would 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 whole nine-season run, maintained. “I’ve at all times and can at all times and I haven’t got any drawback together with her.”

“There have been some weird misunderstandings that I actually hope we will determine in the future, however I like that lady,” she added.

Followers began speculating that there was hassle 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 e book cowl resembles her 2023 memoir, Grimoire Lady, 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 in addition how we maintain that storytelling alive and vital,” Burton, who starred within the collection from seasons 1-6 mentioned on the time. “And so, as we head into seasons 7 by 9, it was vital that we launched a brand new queen who might take over for me.”

The actress did, nevertheless, 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 might “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 great things that was in it,” she added. “However I must kinda psych myself up each week.”

Elsewhere in the course of the interview, Lenz opened opened up concerning the cult she was in whereas filming OTH, which admittedly affected her relationships together with her co-stars, telling Name Her Daddy host, Alex Cooper that issues have been “laborious” with Bush whereas they have been filming.

“We’re going by the motions of shut friendship however not truly realizing methods to join,” Lenz shared. “It is laborious.”

She continued, “I believe we have been each approaching life from the same method, however from reverse views. She would have been rather more fast to hearken to my perspective and listen to me than I might 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 forged in the course of the present’s run on the podcast.

“A bit of bit, not as a lot as I might have favored,” the Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Present (Whereas additionally in an Precise Cult!) writer mentioned.

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