Los Angeles, June 22 (IANS) Actress Sophia Bush, who gained massive popularity for playing Brooke Davis in the show "One Tree Hill" said she found handling fame hard as a young person because she was expected to be perfect even though she was still growing up.

Bush played Brooke Davis in "One Tree Hill" in 2003 when she was 21. She said filming the show, which ran until 2012, protected the cast from too much attention, but she still had some tough time in the spotlight, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"Even the aspects that we did experience were really traumatising for me. It was so hard to handle, this notion that everyone wants you to fail so they can make fun of you but also you're meant to be perfect but no one knows how to be perfect, let alone an adult because we were 20 years old. We were children," Bush said on her new podcast, "Drama Queens".

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