Chad Michael Murray was originally the favorite to play Nathan Scott on “One Tree Hill,” but according to E! News, he wanted the role of Nathan’s half-brother, Lucas Scott. This is because Lucas was abandoned by a parent, a pain Murray knew all too well. However, it was his mother, not his dad, who walked out on Murray’s family when he was 10. “She put me on the bus for school one morning, saying she was going out of town for a couple of weeks, [but] she didn’t come back till I was 18,” Murray told Seventeen. His father was raising five children on his own, so the family’s financial situation wasn’t great. “I had no stuff, no money, no friends,” said Murray.
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According to Murray, he felt like an outsider during high school and was bullied in elementary. “I had my two front teeth knocked out by a sixth grader in first grade. He picked me up and jacked me in the mouth,” he recalled to PBS Kids. Murray also suffered a horrific injury at age 15 that sounds like something the “OTH” writers might conjure up: He almost died because his intestines had twisted, he was bleeding internally, and his abs were too tight. “They had a priest at the end of my bed, Murray said on “The Jess Cagle Show,” adding, “It was the only time I ever saw my dad cry — well, one of two times.”
