Sophia Bush on her Chicago P.D. exit: “It was my dream job and I was miserable”

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"I don't have to give everyone the specific break down of exactly why I left until I'm ready to do that,” she said on Refinery 29’s Unstyled podcast. “But, the overarching theme for me, was that I landed my dream job. I landed this job that, since I was 20 years old and trying to become an actor, I said I wanted. And aspects of it, don't get me wrong, were wonderful. But, I realized…by the end of the second season I couldn't do that job anymore.” She added that she gave producers plenty of warning about her exit, saying she told them: “I'm giving you 23 episodes notice. I'm giving you that much time. So there will be no conversation in which I was hysterical, emotional, in which I was being a quote irrational female or whatever you want to put on it. I'm literally sitting in front of you like cool as a cucumber.”