Sophia Bush Reveals How She Worked With Chad Michael Murray On ‘One Tree Hill’ After Split

Sophia Bush, 40, is speaking out about what motivated her to keep working alongside Chad Michael Murray, 40, after their marriage was over.

The actress and actor, who co-starred as dating couple, Brooke Davis and Lucas Scott, on One Tree Hill, started dating in real life in 2003 before getting hitched in 2005

and although things ended between them after five months of wedded bliss, they continued working closely on the show.

Sophia admitted that it was putting her character and the show first, above all, that helped her keep going, in a new episode of her Drama Queens podcast.

“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,” Sophia

Sophia also expressed that there were many fans who liked Brooke and Lucas as a couple, which she could understand, and she wanted to do her best with the romance storyline.