'I just wasn’t wanting to perpetuate this sort of behavior that I didn’t think was appropriate,' Sophia Bush said
“It was bad. It was really rough,” Bush said. “I gave that [job] up because it was unsustainable for me to go to work anymore. You can’t heal from toxic behavior in the toxic environment. You just can’t do it. … I had to prioritize my life over my job at that point.”
Bush left the NBC drama at the conclusion of season four finale in May 2017. She said she had signed a 6-year contract on the show, but got out of it early because of the on-set battles.the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. “I was fighting this battle with no cultural conversation about this in the industry,” Bush said. “It was really interesting. I think about it and I’m like, ‘Man, there are some people on that set who are just like, breathing a sigh of relief.’ Which is unfortunate. But it’s been a weird thing because you realize how quickly if you stand up for yourself, you can become the enemy. And for whatever reason, the men who behave in these ways get branded as old school.
“For me, the experience of standing up for myself, I got listened to for a moment and then it was clear that I wasn’t going to back down about it and then I became the enemy,” Bush said. “And I thought, ‘Wow it’s so interesting that in speaking what was happening to me, I’m the troublemaker rather than the person who has put me through this.
“We need them to speak up and we also need men to be better allies in the moment,” Bush added. “Because everyone’s trying to be good employees and everyone’s trying to get to the end of the day. And people forget that there are 200 people on a set, on a crew, a lot of people’s livelihoods and their kids’ school tuition and their mortgages depend on their job.
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