Emmy Rossum is looking back at her shocking exit from Shameless.
The 39-year-old Golden Globe-nominated actress starred as Fiona Gallagher in the first nine seasons of the Showtime series, which ran for 11 seasons between 2011 to 2021. For years, rumors have swirled about why she left the show, including her highly-publicized equal pay dispute.
While appearing on the Wednesday episode (July 8) episode of Call Her Daddy, Emmy set the record straight on why she decided to leave Shameless.
“I wanted to stay in the job. I loved the job,” Emmy emphasized. “I wasn’t walking away from the job.”
“I loved the job until it felt like there wasn’t enough juice to squeeze out of the lemon,” she explained. “We had made 110 episodes and by the time I left and they offered us two more years I had already started my production company. I had set up my first show [Angelyne] and I was green lit and getting ready to make it.”
Emmy added that when she was offered two more years of Shameless, she felt “beholden to the other job.”
She also addressed the rumors that she left the show to start a family. If you didn’t know, Emmy and husband Sam Esmail share two children – a daughter born in May 2021 and a son born in April 2023.
“I think a common misconception is I left to go have babies,” she continued. “That’s could not be further from the truth.”
“I left to go make the show I had been developing that our showrunner John Wells had encouraged me to kind of get in the driver’s seat of my own career and make my own shows and make things,” Emmy continued. “I left with a lot of grief and sorrow because I would I would miss all those people and I couldn’t believe that they were going to go on the journey without me. But I was also really excited. I felt like I was launching and getting ready to start this new chapter.”
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