If you thought it was shocking when Elena became a Vampire on The Vampire Diaries, that is nothing as compared to what the actress who plays her revealed today.
Nina Dobrev announced that she is leaving The CW show at the end of the season.
She posted the below message on Instagram:
Dearest TVD Family,
I’ve just spent the most beautiful weekend on Lake Lanier in Georgia with my own TVD Family, the cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries. I want to be the first to tell you that it wasn’t just a holiday celebration, it was a goodbye party. I always knew I wanted Elena’s story to be a six season adventure, and within those six years I got the journey of a lifetime. I was a human, a vampire, a doppelganger, a crazy immortal, a doppelganger pretending to be human, a human pretending to be a doppelganger. I got kidnapped, killed, resurrected, tortured, cursed, body-snatched, was dead and undead, and there’s still so much more to come before the season finale in May. Elena fell in love not once, but twice, with two epic soulmates, and I myself made some of the best friends I’ll ever know and built an extended family I will love forever.
I think this is a really smart decision on her part. The Degrassi beauty has a huge career ahead of her and now she is free to do movies and other television shows. She has the potential to be the next Sarah Michelle Gellar and Katie Holmes.
When it comes to the drama, it will be interesting to see how they handle her departure and if they can go on without her? I am not sure that they can, but other shows have survived without their leads like ER, NYPD Blue and CSI to name a few.
To read the rest of her statement, then
There’s more to come before we wrap this up, and I promise you’ll get to hear all about my experiences over the next month as we approach the season finale (I have given an exclusive interview for the June issue of SELF Magazine that I am excited for you to see!), but until then I invite you to hop on the roller coaster ride that is Elena Gilbert’s life and join me as I celebrate her and prepare to say goodbye to her — and to my work family — as I move on to the next chapter of my life. I want to share this goodbye with all of you (this weekend’s pictures were just the beginning). You, the wonderful fandom who gave more love, support and passion than anyone could have ever imagined seven years ago, when a young Degrassi girl from Canada showed up in LA to audition for ‘that Twilight TV show.’ đŸ˜‰ I love you all. Fasten your seatbelts. If you think you know what’s coming, you don’t.
Love, Nina
