Taylor Momsen had a hard time getting out of her contract. Gossip Girl.
After starring as Jenny Humphrey in the first three seasons of the hit series, Taylor wanted to quit and pursue her music career and tour with her band, The Pretty Reckless.
But “leaving such a successful career wasn’t easy,” she told Alex Cooper on the Nov. 5 show. Call her daddy podcast episode.
“It was an easy decision for me. … Terminating a contract was not easy,” she shared.
“It started out as, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore,’ but you’re under contract with CW, Warner Brothers, you know, all that stuff,” Momsen explained.
“It was a very long battle where I argued [with] everyone, ‘Go get me out of here.’ I can’t do this anymore. This is killing me. I have something else I want to do with my life and it has nothing to do with this,” she continued.
Taylor remembers being considered ungrateful for wanting to leave such a successful role and show.
“How dare you turn your back on something that was so successful for you?” it was hard [to hear]” she said. “I just said, ‘Fuck you.’ … I was very defensive.
Eventually, Gossip Girl Executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage agreed to write her character out of the series.
“I really have to give them credit for doing this for me, because they didn’t have to,” Taylor Momsen continued.
