Real reason Chad Michael Murray is refusing to take part in One Tree Hill sequel

Chad Michael Murray has nary plans to prima successful the upcoming One Tree Hill sequel as he has zero tendency to enactment with his ex-wife Sophia Bush, insiders claim.

Bush and her chap costar Hilarie Burton, some 42, confirmed successful August that a caller bid is successful the works for Netflix - with the brace some serving arsenic enforcement producers.

The deed series, which ran from 2003 until 2012, was famed for a fig of explosive storylines - but arsenic arsenic melodramatic were the existent beingness autumn outs behind-the-scenes, including Murray and Bush's acrimonious divorce. 

The 2005 divided proved truthful divisive that Murray, 43, does not privation to reunite with, oregon enactment for, his estranged ex connected the upcoming project, with insiders claiming nary magnitude of wealth could tempt him.   

'There’s nary emotion mislaid betwixt Chad and Sophia,' an insider told DailyMail.com. 'They’ve some moved connected successful their idiosyncratic lives since divorcing.'

Bush and Murray officially started dating successful 2003 and tied the knot successful 2005 in Santa Monica.

They celebrated astatine Hotel Casa del Mar with their friends and family, but shocked fans erstwhile they divided conscionable 5 months later.

It was rumored astatine the clip that Murray had stepped retired connected their matrimony with nary different than his House of Wax costar Paris Hilton.

Bush attempted to get the matrimony annulled, citing fraud, but her efforts were unsuccessful, and the divorcement was yet finalized successful 2006.

'This is simply a hard and unfortunate situation. I americium gladsome this is being resolved sooner alternatively than later,' she said successful a connection shared with PEOPLE astatine the time.

Awkwardly, the brace inactive had to enactment unneurotic connected the amusement portion dealing with the separation.

Murray near One Tree Hill successful 2009 aft six seasons playing brooding hoops subordinate Lucas Scott, who was embroiled successful a analyzable emotion triangle with Bush's Brooke Davis and her champion person Peyton Sawyer, played by Burton.

'Sophia attempted to person their matrimony annulled, citing fraud, but she was denied,' the root continued. 'The past happening Chad wants oregon needs is to enactment with, oregon for, Sophia. 

'With her shaper recognition it means she’d beryllium his boss. No magnitude of wealth would get him to hold to spell back.'

The histrion has been coy astir immoderate imaginable engagement erstwhile pressed during the promotional way for his caller Netflix Christmas movie, simply claiming that helium is excited for fans. 

In an interrogation with Deadline, helium said: 'I truly privation immoderate iteration of this amusement to travel backmost for the fans. I’ll archer you, immoderate iteration of the amusement comes forward, I privation that for the fans. 

'There’s specified a brotherhood and a enslaved betwixt truthful galore radical each astir the satellite with us. I’m grateful for that.'

In a abstracted chat with The Hollywood Reporter, Murray explained that helium had not been contacted astir the project.

Explaining however helium reacted to the news, helium admitted that helium got connected the telephone with his costar James Lafferty - who played his half-brother Nathan Scott.

'We’re not doing it due to the fact that nary one’s ever picked up the telephone and said, "Hey, we’re doing this," truthful we’re not doing it,' helium told the publication.

In the years since Murray near OTH, helium has had respective nationalist clashes with his ex-wife astir the struggles successful their marriage.

In 2018, Bush, who was 22 erstwhile they tied the knot, sparked contention erstwhile she claimed that she had been excessively young to marque the determination to wed and said she felt 'pressured' to spell done with it.

Speaking connected Andy Cohen's SiriusXM vigor amusement she said that 'everybody's 22 and stupid,' and added that the matrimony was 'not a happening I really truly wanted to do.'

She recalled however she allowed herself to beryllium talked into the union, telling Cohen: 'Because however bash you fto everybody down? And however bash you - what's the fight?

'And erstwhile you person bosses telling you that you're the lone idiosyncratic who gets a idiosyncratic to enactment connected time, and 200 radical either get to spot their kids astatine nighttime oregon they don't, due to the fact that our days commencement connected time.

'What the nationalist knows ever is ne'er - it's not the extremity of the iceberg.'

She said she and Burton 'used to laugh, and we were like: "If we had a behind-the-scenes show, the play would beryllium truthful overmuch f***ing amended than the play that the writers write.'''

In a connection to People, Murray's rep fired back and said that the 'story is ludicrous.'

'Chad conducts himself successful a wholly nonrecreational mode and would ne'er wed for immoderate crushed but love,' the rep continued. 'Thirteen years since his divorcement from Sophia, helium has a precise blessed household beingness with his woman and children.

'He has wholly moved connected and doesn't consciousness the request to prosecute successful this benignant of behavior.'

The incidental led Bush to denote that she would ne'er talk astir her ex again during an 2021 interrogation connected Smallville alum Michael Rosenbaum's podcast, Inside of You.

'Oh, I'm not going to speech astir him,' she said astatine the time. 'I'm not allowed to due to the fact that I've tried to poke amusive astatine being a dumb kid and whenever I've done that, it gets twisted into I'm talking s**t astir idiosyncratic who I don't adjacent cognize anymore, who's intelligibly a grown-up.

'I deliberation you person to laughter astatine who you utilized to beryllium but erstwhile radical inquire maine astir past that involves idiosyncratic else…it's not worthy my time. It's not a spot wherever I harbor sick volition oregon anything.'

When Rosenbaum added that it besides can't 'come retired right,' Bush agreed and added:  'It ne'er does! And I've tried to like, you know, bash the happening wherever erstwhile I get stuck unrecorded connected the air—which has happened to maine twice—getting asked astir it wherever I springiness a little...like jazz hands quip and determination on. It conscionable doesn't work, truthful I'm not going to.'

Murray went connected to wed histrion and exemplary Sarah Roemer, 40, who is champion known for her relation successful the movie Disturbia starring Shia Labeouf. 

Bush is presently successful a narration with erstwhile shot subordinate Ashlyn Harris pursuing her divorcement from entrepreneur Grant Hughes. 

Murray is presently gearing up for his caller Netflix vacation film, The Merry Gentlemen, successful which helium strips off, overmuch to the delight of fans.

The histrion plays a subordinate of an all-male Christmas themed revue.

The movie besides stars Britt Robertson arsenic Ashley, a erstwhile big-city dancer who forms the revue successful bid to prevention her parents' quaint performing venue.