Mischa Barton’s ‘O.C.’ Bombshell: She Dated Ben McKenzie IRL
Just a few months after an oral history of The O.C. was published that purported to spill all the behind-the-scenes gossip from the beloved teen drama, Mischa Barton has just dropped one of the biggest bombshells of all.
On Wednesday, Barton, who played The O.C.’s chronically troubled beauty Marissa Cooper, admitted for the first time that she dated her co-star and on-screen romantic partner Ben McKenzie.
“It wasn’t just on-screen either,” she revealed on the Call Her Daddy podcast. “It was kind of complicated for me because I went into that like a virgin, a kid, really feeling like I needed to grow up quickly.”