I can't stand Haley James Scott
The first time I watched this show I did love her. This is my second time watching and I didn't expect to feel this way. If you love her then just skip this. This is cathartic venting.
She's the most selfish self righteous character besides Dan. Nathan absolutely married his father.
She tutors Nathan for lucas but ends up having a crush. Nathan still bullies lucas but she makes lucas take the high road. Fine, I could accept this until I kept washing the show.
She finds out Nathan watches porn and the whole world falls apart. She's entitled.
3.After their married, she kisses chris. When peyton asks her about it, her first response is to SCOFF. Like how dare you call her out!
She talks it out with peyton which i think is valid. She realized she didn't feel for Chris but they were connected through music. Cool.
3.the second she finds out Nathan slept with her sister before even knowing she exist, she punishes him for it. Nathan by now is just use to saying sorry. She's also emailing Chris and blames the whole thing on her sister. Her sister takes the fall.
She runs away to be in tour and doesn't ask her husband to go. Red flag. He goes after her later on and he says he'll do anything to make it work but she's back peddling saying "maybe we rushed into things". Then he decides to move on with his life. That's when she comes back. (And according to Keith in the angel episode where lucas has a heart attack, she wouldn't have come back if lucas didn't go see her.)
So she comes back and decides to fight for her marriage. She literally gets everyone to tell Nathan to forgive her BTW. They finally sleep together and when he freaks out about birth control, instead of reassuring her husband and helping the situation she says "your career as a basketball player is secure but your future as my husband isn't" and walks out the door. Manipulation 101. Like the second Nathan gave her an inch of love and then got scared she turned right back into this emotional blackmailing wife.
After telling Nathan that she has bigger dreams than trapping him, and that she is in fact on birth control, she ends up pregnant??? And when does she tell him? Not when she knows. No when he tells her he got in to Duke, he can't even have that for himself. She drops the news and is so confused and upset and that he's scared and upset. She's mad that he isn't jumping with joy. Making him the villain. So they are struggling with money, they need full scholarships and she surprises him with a kid. Great
And yes I know it takes two but she had already made up her mind and because Nathan has codependency issues, he's going to do whatever she says.
Nathan jeopardizes his future by shaving points and owing money to loan sharks. Again for her and the baby. He's a good man.
She walks out on Nathan AGAIN once she finds out about the loan sharks and how they hit her with a car. She also isn't really there for him when he's scared about the situation.
Right before prom the brooke/Nathan sex tape drops and she acts like a victim. Girl you knew he was a complete asshat before you guys even met.
She's the worst character because she a self serving, self righteous manipulator. I know she's pregnant and a hormonal teenager and he's her first love but the way she rips her friends for any and every mistake they make is trash. She Dan 2.0.
Edit: lmao ok I'm being very dramatic with the dan 2.0. Like I said this is just cathartic venting. She's not as bad as Dan but the way she emotionally blackmails Nathan is gross