Unpopular opinion: Peyton is over-hated 🥲.
I have rewatched one tree hill multiple times and lucas and peyton are usually the most hated characters from what I’ve seen from fans and the lucas hate is well deserved. But for peyton, I understand why she’s such a mess. Yeah no excuses for cheating with lucas on her best friend brooke, but we did find out later brooke slept with nathan while he was with peyton first to be fair.
First off- she lost her mom at a young age and her father was rarely ever around. Nathan was a terrible boyfriend to her. Shes gotten drugged and almost raped at a college party. She got introduced to cocaine. She gets bullied by felix being called a dyke. She finds out later she has a long lost brother from her real dad but was really just her stalker and her mother who raised her her whole life was not her real mom. Then she meets her real mom who dies shortly after. And her real brother could never fully be there for her even after learning of their relationship. She gets shot and almost dies. I may be missing more BUT.
This is all in high school and for a teenager is a lot to handle and I feel bad for her. She by far deals with the most life problems from any other characters on the show and because of all that I cant hate on her as much as the rest of you.