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Lindsey Shaw spoke astir losing her relation arsenic Paige connected Pretty Little Liars portion undergoing idiosyncratic turmoil, recalling the time she was terminated by the show's creator.
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Lindsey Shaw is getting candid about the events she says led to her firing from Pretty Little Liars.
The histrion precocious recalled battling substance maltreatment and assemblage representation struggles portion playing the recurring role of Paige McCullers—a emotion involvement of formed subordinate Shay Mitchell's quality Emily Fields, connected the teen series.
"When I had my cause occupation and I was successful betwixt moving connected stuff, I would ne'er person to code my narration with nutrient due to the fact that I was ever like, ‘Oh, I could ever conscionable spell get much Adderall.' Do you cognize what I mean? And like, beryllium good with it," Shaw said connected the July 5 occurrence of Ned's Declassified Podcast Survival Guide podcast. "I got fundamentally fto spell from Pretty Little Liars in play 5 due to the fact that of the value that I had lost, and it was truly an embarrassing, embarrassing thing."
She continued, "I didn't look bully excessively skinny and then, erstwhile I started to enactment the value backmost on, I couldn't grip it being excessively heavy. So it benignant of played into this dumb cycle."
Looking back, Shaw said the firing took spot aft she was called into the bureau of the show's creator I. Marlene King. "She was conscionable like, 'So we're gonna fto you go,'" Shaw said connected the podcast. "She's like, 'It's not due to the fact that of your acting.' She's like, ‘But bash you person anybody to speech to?' And I was like, 'Um, No.' And she's like, 'We'll find somebody, and we person to fto you spell for now.'"
Shaw said it was "rough being told, 'Hey, we gotta fto you go' and with care, with truthful overmuch care."
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E! News has reached retired to King and the show's accumulation institution Freeform, antecedently known arsenic ABC Family, for remark and has not heard back.
Shaw besides said she received enactment from Mitchell amid her struggles. "We went to the aforesaid nutritionist for a while," she said. "She was bringing maine macromolecule powder. She was like, 'Girl.' Yeah, it was awful."
Ultimately, Shaw was brought backmost to reprise her relation for the final play of Pretty Little Liars in 2017. "It was truthful beauteous of that penning squad to spot that narration and that quality out," she said. "They did maine truthful close like, bringing maine backmost for play 7 and conscionable letting maine accidental goodbye. That's truthful nice. I volition conscionable ne'er hide that."
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