There was a lot hypothesis as to why Dobrev left the present early, with some followers considering it needed to do together with her breakup with co-star Ian Somerhalder, who she known as it quits with in 2013.
However when asserting her exit, Dobrev stated it had “at all times” been her plan to go away the present after six seasons.
“I at all times knew I wished Elena’s story to be a six-season journey, and inside these six years I acquired the journey of a lifetime,” she wrote on Instagram.
Later in a 2017 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, the star doubled down that it had been her plan to go away the present after her six-year contract ended.
“That was the plan from the get-go,” she instructed the outlet.
“If something, the truth that [leaving] terrified me drove me much more. I wanted to really feel that worry of ‘Oh, my God, what if I by no means get a job once more?’ That simply made me wish to work 5 occasions as laborious to guarantee that did not occur.”
Dobrev did return to the present as Elena for the sequence finale in 2017, giving followers the closure they wished.
