Sophia Bush Recalls the “Ugly” Effects of Her Divorce from Chad Michael Murray

The actress, who went on to star in Chicago P.D., said she was “a really naïve kid” at the time of her marriage, and in part credits the ordeal to her quick ascension to fame.

“Being a super nerdy kid, and suddenly you’re on TV and this is happening, and one of the cool people you work with thinks you’re awesome … There’s really base brain stuff there,” she explained.

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After just five months of marriage, Murray and Bush announced their separation in September 2005. They’d spend the next four years working together. “There was no space to self-reflect,” she told Shepard of the situation on set.

According to Sophia, the show’s producers (which include disgraced showrunner Mark Schwahn) didn’t make the uncomfortable dynamic any easier.

“[The producers] were really deeply inappropriate to both of us about it,” she shared. “They ran like TV ads about it. It was really ugly. They made practice of taking advantage of people’s personal lives — and not just for me and for my ex, for other actors on the show who would share deeply personal things that were happening in their lives. They would wind up in storylines. It wasn’t OK. I imagine that was hard for [Murray] as well. It was a very ugly situation, on their part.”

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