Though Sophia Bush has never named Jason Beghe specifically, she’s hinted plenty of times that she had serious problems with him while working on “Chicago P.D.” For starters, there was a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that seemed to clap back at his statement to Deadline. Beghe had told the outlet, “I have struggled with anger issues for some time.” Just over two weeks later, Bush wrote on X, “Repeat sexual abusers having their gross physical misconduct rebranded as ‘anger management issues.’ [I’m] flabbergasted, really.” It seems like that wasn’t a coincidence.
It wasn’t the last time Bush would refer to Beghe’s statement. In a 2023 episode of “Drama Queens,” the podcast she co-hosts with Hilarie Burton and Bethany Joy Lenz, she mentioned feeling completely out of sorts in the wake of how it was handled. “I don’t know what I’m supposed to do that my next employers rebranded sexual assault with witnesses as ‘anger management issues’ in the press,” she said.
That note on witnesses is another detail Bush has spoken about, more than once. In an appearance on “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepherd,” she revealed that on one occasion, she’d been assaulted in the presence of a number of her former co-workers. Heartbreakingly, not one of them stepped in to help. “You’re the one woman in the room and every man who’s twice your size doesn’t do something,” she recounted.
