Chad Michael Murray knows he wasn’t ready to be a husband when he was with Sophia Bush. The “One Tree Hill” alum, 42, looked back on his 2005 marriage to his former co-star that ended badly after only five months. “I was a baby,” Murray told the Cut in an interview published Tuesday.
He continued: “I didn’t know up, down, left, right. You move out there and you go, ‘Well, what am I supposed to do now? Get married? That’s exciting!’ “ Murray and Bush, 41, met on the set of “One Tree Hill,” where they played Lucas Scott and Brooke Davis, respectively. The actors dated for two years before they got married in 2005, when he was 23 and she was 22 — and they got divorced later that same year.
In early 2006, Bush filed for an annulment , citing fraud, but her request was denied. Their divorce was finalized in December 2006. Last year, the exes’ relationship ended up in the headlines again when Erin Foster claimed that Murray cheated on her with Bush in the early 2000s.
Murray responded to the accusations to E! News : “It’s not one of those things that I want to go down the road of because there’s just never a winner. I feel blessed to be where I am right now.” “I have more regrets in my life than I care to think about, but I don’t live in the past,” the “Freaky Friday” star added.
“I try to move forward every single day and just go, ‘I got air in my lung, life in my step, the will to move forward and the sun’s gonna rise on a bea.
