Whereas exhibiting on the Name Her Daddy podcast Wednesday, Lenz talked about she doesn’t 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 carried out Haley James Scott on the current for its whole nine-season run, maintained. “I’ve all the time and can all the time and I haven’t got any drawback along with her.”

“There have been some weird misunderstandings that I actually hope we are able to work out someday, however I like that woman,” she added.

Followers started speculating that there was hassle in paradise between the earlier co-stars after it appeared that Burton, who carried out Peyton Sawyer on the beloved teen drama, had unfollowed or blocked Lenz on Instagram.

Some followers take into account Burton was upset that Lenz’s information cowl resembles her 2023 memoir, Grimoire Woman, though Burton has under no circumstances commented on the speculation.

The girls teamed as a lot as host their podcast with co-star Sophia Bush beginning in 2021, and had been co-hosting the current as a trio until July, when Burton launched she was stepping once more from her web internet hosting gig and Robert Buckley (who carried out 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 additionally how we maintain that storytelling alive and essential,” Burton, who starred throughout the sequence from seasons 1-6 talked about on the time. “And so, as we head into seasons 7 by way of 9, it was essential that we launched a brand new queen who may take over for me.”

The actress did, nonetheless, say that she was going to “pop in” to the podcast when she will probably be in a position to. She launched Buckley as any individual “who represented the identical issues that I’ve dropped at this present.”

Burton moreover talked about 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 good things that was in it,” she added. “However I must kinda psych myself up each week.”

Elsewhere all through the interview, Lenz opened opened up with reference to the cult she was in whereas filming OTH, which admittedly affected her relationships alongside along with her co-stars, telling Name Her Daddy host, Alex Cooper that points had been “exhausting” with Bush whereas that they had been filming.

“We’re going by way of the motions of shut friendship however not really figuring out find out how to join,” Lenz shared. “It is exhausting.”

She continued, “I believe we had been each approaching life from an identical manner, however from reverse views. She would have been far more fast to hearken to my perspective and listen to me than I’d have been on the time. However I believe basically there was in all probability a similarity.”

Lenz talked about whereas she and Bush haven’t spoken in depth about this, they’ve talked about Lenz’s distance from the stable all through the current’s run on the podcast.

“A little bit bit, not as a lot as I’d have appreciated,” the Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Present (Whereas moreover in an Precise Cult!) creator talked about.

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