Hilarie Burton Morgan Says Letting Her Hair Go Gray at a Young Age Was ‘a Relief’

Hilarie Burton Morgan is loving her grey hair.

The One Tree Hill alum, 41, appeared on The Viewon Thursday and informed longtime co-host Pleasure Behar that she’s “rising all of it out.”

“It’s a bizarre factor once you have been a teen drama actress, and the expectation to be 17 perpetually is on the market,” she stated. “And I didn’t essentially like my youthful years. I handled some darkish stuff in my youthful years. So this concept that you would be able to degree up and get to the place the place you’re the salty one within the room was thrilling to me.”

“And my heroes have been Bea Arthur and Ruth Gordon and Betty White,” the Drama Queens podcast host added. “That’s who I wished to be. So going grey early had been a aid.”

“Nicely you’re on pattern, a whole lot of ladies are doing it,” Behar informed Burton Morgan, who replied, “Nicely good, yeah. We’re going to take over the world.”

“I’ll do it with this colour,” Behar, 80, stated, referring to her ginger hair. “I’ll take over the world with this colour.”

“It takes all types,” Burton Morgan replied.

Whereas selling her ebook, Grimoire Woman: Creating an Inheritance of Magic and Mischief — which was launched on Tuesday — Burton Morgan beforehand informed PEOPLE about her graying hair turning into such a preferred matter, providing comparable sentiments as what she shared with The View.

“Is not that bizarre?” she requested in response to her hair being a buzzy pattern on-line. “I imply, look, I began doing TV actually the second I graduated highschool. I’ve given everything of my youth to different individuals. And there is one thing actually rewarding for me to simply say, ‘f—- it,’ and let my hair develop grey. ‘Trigger I wasn’t essentially revered as a child, so why would I need to cling on to that?

“I believe individuals put a lot emphasis on staying younger perpetually,” TheStrolling Useless star informed PEOPLE. “However I’ve discovered a lot extra achievement and respect and success and happiness the second I used to be like, ‘I am not going to play by these guidelines anymore.’ It feels good to type of scoff within the face of that. And my husband’s a silver fox. Nobody ever questioned him going grey. So I do chortle at it anytime I see somebody making a giant deal out of it.”