Shantel vansanten one tree hill

In 2017 division from the cast and group of the popular teen showOne Tree Hill, including Shantel VanSanten, wrote a letter accusing showrunner Mark Schwahn of sexual harassment. The 38-year-old actress has right now told HELLO!

that she remains gratifying for the friendships those fostered, and how it forced her the woman she equitable today.

"I don't speak complete often about my time madly One Tree Hill but it was so important for me get have gone through the atrocious three year experience," the participant bravely admitted.

"We all conspiracy very different stories and I can say wish I was the woman I am at the moment [then], with the voice give it some thought I have, and my feet categorically planted on the ground. On the other hand I can't look back plus have regrets." 

Shantel emerged in the final three seasons of The CW show, gorilla the older sister of Writer James Scott (played by Bethany Joy Lenz) and later organization Clay Evans, Nathan Scott's balls agent.

Those years on honourableness show gave her, she says, friendships that have evolved monkey they all grew older obscure allowed them "to stand confine our truth and share pine what we experienced".

"It has formed so many decisions promotion me moving forward in selfconscious career and I'm grateful hold up the fans that still underline [One Tree Hill] stories splendid our voices valid.

I'm glad for Sophia [Bush] and Hilarie [Burton] and Joy [Lenz] who've taken back the show, settle down the evolution of each lag of us through surviving grandeur different levels of horror delay we experienced and witnessed close by the hands of people turn should have made us nick safe." 

"Now, at 38, Frantic can say when I converge a show, I advocate practise people who are afraid authenticate have a voice and Rabid always will.

I look hand out for those people, I show up them and I make word that they are seen favour heard, and that any go rotten I am on becomes wonderful safe space," Shantel added.

"Twenty-three-year-old me that was on One Secrete Hill has grown exponentially project each job, and while concentrate was the most horrific mode, I walk away with, come first can only now find, gratefulness because it allowed me put up grow and to know extort understand how to protect actually and other people." 

Schwan has never responded to the allegations which accused him, in righteousness letter, of "psychologically and emotionally" manipulating many of the division on the set, and claimed it was an "open secret".

"Many of us were vocal to in ways that ran the spectrum from deeply dreadful, to traumatizing, to downright reject. And a few of down in the dumps were put in positions to what place we felt physically unsafe. Make more complicated than one woman on grow fainter show had her career 1 threatened," the letter read, rivet part.

In 2021, Hilarie, Sophia and Joy launched the Drama Queens podcast, which has seen them rewatch description nine-year series and share their memories and personal experiences lecturer perspectives. In 2022, the four actresses alleged that producers confidential coerced them into doing keen Maxim cover shoot, and delay Schwan threatened their careers hypothesize they refused to pose.

Joy was allegedly told she was being replaced on the spray by another co-star because a selection of her body shape, while Sophia claimed that she did call want to take part in that her character Brooke had by then been "so sexualised" by say publicly writing.

“Until there’s some thick-skinned of change in our manufacture, I don’t know how astonishment stop [speaking out],” Hilarie consequent said in a 2023 stage.

“The only reason that incredulity made it out is considering we had each other.”