TV Stars Who Left Hit Shows: Pictures

It’s by no means straightforward to say goodbye, even when it’s a tv goodbye. While no TV present can final perpetually – properly, Law & Order: SVU is within the operating – the cast doesn’t all the time keep as lengthy. Many actors select to depart after their contracts finish. Some give the networks a prolonged heads-up, whereas others simply appear to up and vanish, leaving the writers to scramble (see under!). Regardless, the present should go on.

One of essentially the most talked about exits was in May 2017, when Sophia Bush determined to depart Chicago P.D. after season 4. She performed the lead position of Detective Erin Lindsay on the NBC drama and was written out of the present with a cliffhanger – her character was supplied a job in New York to hitch the FBI. Many thought this might imply she would pop up on Law & Order: SVU – one other present written by Dick Wolf which has performed a crossover with P.D. earlier than – however over time, it was made obvious that was not occurring.

In a number of interviews since her exit, Bush defined that she went to her bosses between the third and fourth seasons and instructed them if issues didn’t “drastically” change, she could be leaving on the finish of the year. Then, in December 2018, she opened up in regards to the choice whereas on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast.

“I quit because, what I’ve learned is, I’ve been so programmed to be a good girl and to be a work horse and be a tug boat, that I have always prioritized tugging the ship for the crew, for the show, for the group, ahead of my own health … My body was, like, falling apart, because I was really, really unhappy,” she revealed, earlier than later including she felt “ignored” and recalled the time she instructed a coworker, “I feel like I was standing butt-naked, bruised and bleeding in the middle of Times Square, screaming at the top of my lungs and not a single person stopped to ask if they could help me.”

She additionally referenced the present as “a consistent onslaught barrage of abusive behavior.” Bush famous: “You start to lose your way when someone assaults you in a room full of people and everyone literally looks away, looks at the floor, looks at the ceiling, and you’re the one woman in the room and every man who’s twice your size doesn’t do something.”

For extra TV stars who walked away from hit reveals, scroll by the gallery under.