Nina Dobrev Shared The Heartbreaking Real Reason Why She Didn’t Return For More Episodes Of “TVD” After Leaving The Show, And Fans Are Outraged On Her Behalf

Not lone did Nina, who was conscionable 20 erstwhile the CW bid aired successful 2009, famously play protagonist Elena Gilbert, but she besides played multiple doppelgängers of her character.

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But contempt the information that this resulted successful her moving much hours and having a much aggravated workload than her counterparts, Nina has revealed that she was paid little than her antheral co-leads Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley, who played Damon and Stefan Salvatore.

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“It was a spot of a tricky concern due to the fact that my declaration lone said to play Elena, but I was playing aggregate characters, which doubled my workload. I had to beryllium connected acceptable for treble the magnitude of time, I had to memorize treble the magnitude of lines,” she detailed, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Author Samantha stated that due to the fact that actors are usually allowed to commencement negotiating their contracts by Season 3, Nina was apt earning little than Ian and Paul for the archetypal fewer seasons of the show.

“I wanted to play [Elena’s doppelgänger] Katherine, but I wanted to beryllium compensated reasonably for that, and I wanted to beryllium an adjacent to the boys,” Nina shared, with Samantha adding that portion the prima was yet paid more, it was ne'er adjacent to what Ian and Paul earned.

“That was astir apt the astir hurtful due to the fact that it felt similar I was truly moving hard and we changeable eighteen-hour days sometimes, and nights, and I was putting my implicit bosom and soul, blood, sweat, and tears into it,” Nina said.

“I retrieve feeling similar the workplace didn’t admit what I was bringing to the show, and it felt similar they were saying that each the hard enactment I was putting into it didn’t substance to them and that I wasn’t an adjacent to my antheral counterparts, and truthful that was upsetting to me,” she added.

TVD spoiler alert, but Elena was enactment nether a sleeping spell successful Season 6, meaning that Nina near the show. However, she famously returned for the Season 8 finale, which aired successful 2017.

Opening up astir pushing for adjacent wage earlier agreeing to instrumentality for the finale, Nina shared, “I was ever unfastened to coming backmost for the finale, and storyline-wise it made sense. I felt similar it was important, and it needed to hap for the show; it needed to hap for the fans. It was conscionable truly important to maine that astatine the extremity of the show, arsenic a woman, I wanted to marque definite that I was compensated and that I was an adjacent to my antheral counterparts connected the show, and truthful it came down to that.”

Shockingly, Nina said that she was initially offered “five times less” than what she made astatine the extremity of Season 6 to instrumentality for the finale. She said, “That’s the lone crushed why, astatine 1 point, I astir didn’t travel back. I needed to beryllium paid parity to the boys. I had to enactment my ft down and accidental that if it didn’t happen, I wouldn’t beryllium capable to travel back. And it wasn’t astir the wealth — I didn’t springiness a crap astir the wealth astatine each — it was the principle.”

Eventually, the workplace agreed to wage for conscionable 1 occurrence astatine Nina’s requested complaint — which is why, arsenic co-creator Julie Plec enactment it, Nina lone appeared successful that 1 last episode. Nina added, “For the fans, I felt horrible, and I wanted the communicative to beryllium told successful the champion mode possible, and it was heartbreaking that the artistry had to endure due to the fact that of this, that we didn’t get to possibly person the fewer episodes astatine the extremity of the amusement that Julie wanted. … I’m precise blessed that we were capable to marque it enactment and that I came back, due to the fact that I wanted to beryllium portion of the goodbye.”

Reacting to Nina’s comments, respective fans were rightfully outraged. “This is disgusting. They worked her to the bony with each those nighttime shoots and doppelgänger scenes, and they inactive paid her little than Paul and Ian? Fuck the amusement industry,” 1 idiosyncratic wrote.

“Wow, the LEADS weren’t getting paid the aforesaid astatine least?!?! She was the main quality anyhow (imo), truthful she should person been getting paid the most,” idiosyncratic said.

“She was the prima of the show, she should person been making astatine slightest what the antheral actors were making from the start,” different remark read, portion 1 much idiosyncratic added, “forget equal, she should person been the highest paid histrion connected that amusement BY A MILE. She was worked to the bony and was inactive the champion retired of the three.”

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