Yahoo News Sophia Bush says she quit Chicago PD after "abusive behaviour"
Sophia Bush has said that she quit Chicago PD after suffering "abusive behaviour".
Bush, who played Detective Erin Lindsay, left in May 2017 after four seasons as a series regular, but at the time declined to elaborate on her decision.
She broke her silence in December last year, explaining that she was "just so unhappy", and now, a year later, has said that her exit was down to "consistent onslaught barrage of abusive behaviour".
"I programmed myself to tolerate the intolerable," Bush told Dax Shepard on his podcast, Armchair Expert. "And part of the big break for me in saying, 'No. I don’t necessarily know what it is, but I know that what's happening is not good for me and everything has to change.'
"That was a big cut-off point when I quit my job.”
She continued. "I quit because what I’ve learned, I’ve been so programmed to be a good girl and to be a work horse and to be a tugboat that I have always prioritised tugging the ship for the crew, for the show, for the group, ahead of my own health."
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Bush added that her "body was falling apart, because I was really, really unhappy".
On the cold weather in Chicago, she said: "It’s literally 30 degrees below zero. So it's 62 degrees below freezing, and you’re gonna say we have to keep working outside?
"But the culture protected it and the culture said, 'This is just what it is, and get the job done, and do the job and do the things.'"
Bush added: "And by the way, when your bosses tell you that if you raise a ruckus you’ll cost everyone their job, you believe them."
Adding of the "consistent onslaught barrage of abusive behaviour", Bush said: "And you know 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 is twice your size doesn't do something, you go, ‘Oh, that wasn’t worth defending? I’m not worth defending?'"
"I am not a difficult person to work with," Bush told Shepard. "I know that nearing the end of my tenure there I was probably difficult to be around because I was in so much pain, and I felt so ignored."
Digital Spy has reached out to NBC for comment.
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Last year, reports suggested that Bush's co-star Jason Beghe's behaviour may have played a part in her departure.
Beghe, who was required by NBC to work with an anger management coach, issued an apology expressing regret for his "hurtful" actions.
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