Sophia Bush Claims She Was Assaulted and Abused on ‘Chicago P.D.’
Actress Sophia Bush claimed on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast that towards the end of her time playing Detective Erin Lindsay on NBC’s Chicago P.D., she was assaulted and abused on set.
“I quit because, what I’ve learned is I’ve been so programmed to be a good girl and to be a workhorse and be a tugboat that I have always prioritized tugging the ship for the crew, for the show, for the group, ahead of my own health,” she explained. “The reality was that my body was, like, falling apart, because I was really, really unhappy.”
She later said she grew concerned over the well-being of the cast and crew around her: “I internalized and sort of like, inhabited that role of ‘pull the tugboat’ to the point where just because I’m unhappy or being mistreated or I’m being abused at work, I’m not gonna f–k this job up for all these people and what about the camera guy whose two daughters I love and this is how he pays their rent? It becomes such a big thing.”
She added, “When your bosses tell you that if you raise a ruckus, you’ll cost everyone their job, and you believe them.”
Sophia left the series in May 2017 after the season 4 finale. Before the fourth season premiere, she took some concerns to her bosses and was apparently “told to stop.”
“‘I said, ‘Okay, you can put me in the position of going quietly of my own accord or you can put me in the position of suing the network to get me out of my deal and I’ll write an op-ed for the New York Times and tell them why,’” she said. “Nearing my tenure there, I was probably difficult to be around because I was in so much pain and I felt so ignored.”
Hear her interview HERE.