The former idol of Teen Teen says that she was dismissed after an "whole season of use"

Lindsey Shaw has just revealed why she was released from Pretty Little Liars.


Fans of Teen Thriller Show pretty Little Liars know Lindsey Shaw Better like Paige McCullers. The actor played a recurring role in the Buzzy show from the first season, but at the end of season 5, Paige had a goodbye emotional airport with his girlfriend on and offer Emily ( Shay Mitchell ) and left the series. Now, eight years later, Shaw revealed why Paige had been written in the show, sharing that she had been released after the producers noticed that she was fighting with drug use and had lost a significant weight.

Now 34 years old, the former teenager Idol believes that she has been dismissed for her own good. Read the rest to discover what Shaw had to say about a recent episode of his podcast on the treatment of drug addiction, body image and loss pretty Little Liars Job, only to be brought back in the last season.

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Shaw used medication to hide a different problem.

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Shaw is currently the podcast Survival Guide to the Declassified Podcast of Ned , which concerns the show NED declassified school survival guide , which was broadcast on Nickelodeon from 2003 to 2007. Its co-hosts are two of its old co-stars, Daniel Curtis Lee And Daniel Werkheiser . During A recent episode of the podcast , the hosts discussed the body image, and Shaw opened up to how his drug use affected his.

"When I had my drug problem and I was between working on stuff, I would never have to approach my relationship with food, because I always said to myself:" Oh, I could always Going better Adderall and it goes with that, "so it was really difficult," she said.

According to Mayo Clinic, Adderall is prescribed "Treat the hyperactivity disorder deficit in attention (ADHD) and narcolepsy;" although some people take it without a prescription. One of the side effects is weight loss.

She was dismissed from pretty Little Liars .

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Shaw said that in the middle of her drug use, she was dismissed pretty Little Liars by creator series I. Marlene King . Shaw explained that King was clearly concerned about his well-being.

"I was essentially dropped pretty Little Liars In season 5, because of the weight I had lost, and it was really an embarrassing thing, "she said." it's too heavy. So it played in this stupid cycle. ""

Shaw started to cry and explained to be dismissed: "I was called pretty Little Liars Creator's office, and it was just like "then we're going to let you go." She says to herself: "It is not because of your game". She said, "Do you have someone to talk to? And I said to myself: "UM, no." And it is like, "well, find someone, and we must let you go now." ""

The actor added that his shot was made "with so much care".

Shaw left Los Angeles to become sober.

During an interview in 2020 with the podcast Women on top ,, Shaw said she left Los Angeles To spend two years with her family in Arizona to work on her mental health and sobriety, including AA meetings. She explained that she abused "drugs and alcohol".

"I was broken. I was completely broken. And the speed of me advancing while trying to act as if I had not been arrested," she said. "Even if it was like death, I had no other appeal. I had to leave. I could not leave my house when I was here [in Los Angeles without being wasted ... Social anxiety was paralyzing .

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pretty Little Liars brought her back in season 7.

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The character of Shaw Paige was brought back to Pll In her last season, which she is grateful.

"It was so charming of this writing team to see this relationship and this character," she said on Survival Guide to the Declassified Podcast of Ned . She added: "I am so grateful for this set and for the character and for Shay and for the people who brought me back."

She is "so much happier" now.

Lindsey Shaw at Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights in 2019
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Shaw noted on her podcast that she "had just given everything [she] cared" when she was struggling with substances. She continued: "I just don't know that I have never returned to the point of my career that I was before this conversation, this meeting, or all this season of use ... to worry about your body can you Make any different directions go from plastic surgery to medication to retain any type [explained]. "

From pretty Little Liars , Shaw appeared in the movies 1/1 And Restoring camp And in an episode of the series Lucifer .

Shaw said she realizes now that "you look like what you look like ... There are things that I like so much in my body now that I can't put words." From her mental health, she said: "For the mental place in which I am now, I'm so happier."


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