Deb Scott

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Deborah Helen Scott (née Lee), better known as Deb Scott, is a fictional character on the CW television series One Tree Hill, played by Barbara Alyn Woods. Deb is Dan Scott’s wife and Nathan Scott’s mother.

Deb Scott is the ex-wife of Tree Hill mayor Dan Scott (Paul Johansson) and the mother of the Ravens basketball star Nathan Scott (James Lafferty). She worked full-time until she saw the way her son's life was turning out in season one. She tried to intervene to keep Dan from completely ruining Nathan's life. Deb, despite being married to her ex-boyfriend, became a close friend of Karen Roe (Moira Kelly). She went into business with Karen with the club Tric, and helped her keep her cafe in business. At the end ofthe season, as her ammriage was falling apart Deb slept with Dan’s brother, Keith Scott (Craig Sheffer).

However, Dan had a heart attack when he caught them and she decided to stay with him, mostly out of guilt. She tried to save her marriage while trying to get Nathan back. But when Haley left, she realised that her son should have the chance of being happy and pushed him to find Haley back. It was then revealed that she had a pill addiction and she decided to have a therapy. There she realised that her love for Dan was gone and after seeing Keith tready to kill his brother, she decided to take that matter in her own hands, drugged Dan and started a fire at his car dealership. That failed when Lucas saved Dan.

In season 3 she decided to divorce but Dan threatened her to take Nathan away from her if she ruined his family based campaign to become Tree Hill's mayor. They spent their time doing anything to get the other one mad and finally divorced when Dan was elected. Deb then fled Tree Hill after Lucas told her he knew about the fire. She came back after Keith's death but called Cooper to protect her and managed to have Dan stay at least ten feets away from her citing harassement.

At Nathan's wedding she confessed Dan that she was the one who tried to kill him, not Keith. Dan then threatened to kill her. Deb has since gotten addicted to pîlls again. She carries a weapon with her and it has misfired once, she has also let her son down several times because she was high and set a war with Karen when she tried to help her. She ended up in prison for false prescription and Dan took her out in exchange for her giving Tric back to Karen. Soon after Karen showed her tough love again (she had already fired her from Karen's Café) by bringing her into rehab while she was asleep because of her pills.