Occasionally, when we talk to “One Tree Hill” star Sophia Bush, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur. We mean that as a compliment — after nine years of watching the show, the place where Sophia ends and Brooke Davis begins has become less defined.

Sophia knows the feeling. “We were shooting a scene in the finale and Brooke was revisiting the high school hallways,” she says. (The high school sets were rebuilt for the final episodes… so prepare your kleenex and wine supply now.) “I walked in there and it was like everything I’d ever experienced as Brooke Davis and also as myself, all my best days… all my worst days… as a young girl making mistakes and a young girl having great success– whatever it was, it all came back to me and it was incredible emotional.”

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Sophia will be on the cover of “Viva Magazine” for February. The magazine is running a contest where you can pick the cover image – vote here!

The Final Scene
Bush: “I was the last person who was filmed on the show, so the final scene for me was the final scene for One Tree Hill.”

Theme of the Final Season
Bush, of Schwahn’s hint that not everyone will be seen by season’s end: “I can’t say anything about it otherwise they’re going to kill me!”

What’s in Store for Tree Hill
Bush: “The pendulum in her life has swung. For a while, it was career above all else. As the career fell apart, she put her family first and became a wife and a mother. Now she’s going to find herself with a balance and find herself in the middle: how to have a career that makes her happy, how to have a marriage that makes her happy, how to run a business with her best friend.”

Stepping Behind the Camera
Bush: “I was fortunate they gave me the second to last episode ever to direct. It’s my favorite episode I’ve ever made. I’m looking forward to getting to that point in the season because 12 and 13 really are a love letter to our little family, from the writers to the actors and the crew. It felt really good.”

Read Bethany and James’ answers here.

“One Tree Hill” star Sophia Bush has long been involved in political issues, including touring college campuses to encourage young people to vote to making appearances in Texas in support of the 2008 Obama campaign.

Apparently Bush even contemplated a career in politics herself, until coming to the conclusion she couldn’t make much of a difference.

“I certainly have thought about it (moving into politics) but the more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless,” Bush told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column at InStyle’s Forevermark Diamond Preview at the Beverly Hills Hotel. “I would much prefer to at some point, to advise a fund and make change, rather than have to sit in a room listening to bureaucratic bull***t and try to cut through red tape and really not get anything done. I’m not interested in living the life that I think our president has been living… I’m really disillusioned by the whole political sphere at this point, and I’d really rather focus on the non-profits base and do work there.”

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Anyone who knows the slightest bit about “One Tree Hill” star Sophia Bush is aware that she’s an avid supporter of a variety of charities. In fact, she recently beat out Rogen in a Firefox-hosted CrowdRise contest to see who could raise the most money for their charity of choice. Bush won an additional $25,000 towards her selection, F Cancer, while another $5,000 went to the rest of the competitors. To Bush, everyone involved in the contest was a winner.

“I think it’s really wonderful to have had the opportunity and we owe Firefox a big thank you, but also it’s a really nice thing when you can get a bunch of people together to do something really good for the world,” she said. “I think Hollywood could use more of it.”

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Even though it’s hard to imagine putting Brooke through another tragedy, Bush says if her character was coasting, it would be boring and somewhat unrealistic. “No matter how together you are, no matter how professional you are, and no matter how many good things happen, we’ve all been through things that are almost unspeakable,” she says. “It’s important for me to have played someone who is flawed and who has been hurt and who has been betrayed, even though she’s a great person.”

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Brooke has daddy (and baby) issues:
“You’re going to meet someone who’s really relevant to Brooke’s life who you’ve been wanting to meet for a long time,” Sophia Bush tells us. “You’re [also] seeing Brooke and Julian with babies. Infants are really hard to deal with on set, so we have kids now who are pretty close to a year playing a little younger than they are. The babies are amazing. They just sit there looking at us everyday, and I think, ‘You’re the best babies ever.’ It’s good.”

Read the other star’s reveals here.

Sophia Bush is a freaking goddess. Let’s just get that out there. And by the end of the night, had proved why she is the show’s sweetheart. Not only is Brooke one of the most relatable and loving characters, but Sophia puts everything she has into her. And as she teared up talking about her season 9 experience (she directs the penultimate episode), we all teared up with her. The whole theater was bawling. Literally.

“She’s taught me a lot,” Sophia said about Brooke. She was especially happy to see Brooke finally have children with Julian. “It was a beautiful journey to see that through with her,” she said. “The hardest day I ever had was when Brooke found out she couldn’t have kids. I never cried like that in my life. That stayed with me for a really long time.”

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