Sophia Bush Talks Working with Ex Chad Michael Murray on 'One Tree Hill' After Ending Their Marriage

If you didn’t know, Sophia and Chad began dating in 2003 and married in 2005. Their marriage only lasted 5 months before they split.

Even after their split, Sophia‘s character Brooke Davis and Chad‘s Lucas Scott dated on the show.

“Not for nothing, you were going through a breakup with the person that you were playing a romance opposite of,” Bethany started. “And regardless of what all those circumstances were, that’s incredibly difficult — emotionally to be able to be vulnerable and be there in that moment.”

“There’s lots of actors who have done that — who’ve done movies and TV shows and things, they date their costar or whatever, it doesn’t work out,” Bethany continued. “But the fact that you were able to just be that raw and open and vulnerable, it’s a real credit to you as an artist. You put your art in front of everybody and just were like, ‘Look, this is it. I’m just sharing my heart and here we are.’ I thought it was really beautiful.”

Sophia then replied, “People can call it whatever they want. They can say it’s strength, they can say it’s pride, they can say its professionalism — you can put a positive or a negative skew on it. But I was always going to put Brooke Davis ahead of everybody and everything else. Nothing mattered to me but being honest for her.”

She then went on to acknowledge why fans may have like Brooke and Lucas as a couple.

As teenagers, they got to be silly and our show needed a little bit of, like, silliness and discovery. It couldn’t all be, like, marriage and death, Sophia explained.

Find out what Sophia has previously said about her marriage to Chad.