“I couldn’t talk to people anymore. I couldn’t talk to foreigners anymore. I couldn’t be watched anymore, especially in the working environment,” said old One Tree.
Sophia Bush opens onto the toxic working environment that pushed it to the edge.
On the episode of June 3 of Recovery with Monica LewinskyThe 42 -year -old actress recalled the trauma she endured on the set of a television series that she joined after wrap A tree hill in 2012.
While Bush did not name the series, she played as detective Erin Lindsay on Chicago PD from 2014 to 2017 after his time HillAnd the calendar seems to line up.
Bush told Lewinsky that being thrown into the nameless series was an important step, but ended up being a nightmare.
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“It was on my list of buckets,” she said. But once on the set, she says it quickly turned into a nightmare. “I have undergone all the abuses you can imagine with someone old enough to be my father,” she shared.
The experience was so damaging, said Bush, that his body began to break down.
“I had the opportunity after two years,” said Bush. “I did the thing I learned to do and said,” I will not have my integrity reduced by someone else’s behavior. I will be involved. I will come to work and do my job. “And I couldn’t.”
Cealing the devastating physical effects of the experience, Bush said that it “was in physical hell”. Experience even stimulated a “spontaneous disease”, which included being “covered with hives” and suffering from hair loss and weight fluctuations.
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“As an extrovert who loves people, being struck by anxiety in such a way that I could barely get out of the house; if people touched me in public, I would jump from my skin,” she continued. “I couldn’t talk to people anymore. I couldn’t talk to foreigners anymore. I couldn’t be looked at, especially in the working environment.”
The actress also said that work had changed her behavior, making her more kept than she had ever been.
“Because I had to go to work ready for war all the time, I had to learn where to keep myself in the ribs or how to block a scene so as not to be touched. It was just exhausting,” recalls Bush.
She finally left the Chicago PD In April 2017, a few months before the explosion of the #MeToo movement. She said that later that year, she received a telephone call from a network executive with apology.
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“In October, I received a call from an excusing manager for what they had done and not done,” she said. “And (they) said:” We are very aware that we had just made this unharmed “” “
Bush has already talked about his decision to leave Chicago PD in 2017 on Refinery 29 ‘s Non -style Podcast, saying: “It is then that I realized that I was drowning. It was then that I knew how much I was going to work every day. I had to respect myself in a situation where I did not feel respected.”
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