Sophia Bush Reveals Being Assaulted In a Room Full of Men who denied to Help her on Chicago PD

Sophia Bush has opened up about the harrowing reasons why she had decided to walk away from the lead role in Chicago PD, claiming she was assaulted in front of male colleagues who did nothing to help. Bush, 36 spoke to Dax Shepard on his Armchair Expert podcast on Monday about her decision to leave her role as Detective Erin Lindsay in the successful Chicago Fire spin-off after the filming of four seasons.

Sophia Bush finally explained why she decided to end her tenure on NBC's Chicago P.D.

• Sophia Bush finally explained the reason why she left the Chicago PD after 4 years being in the show.
• After the filming of season 4, she took the decision to quit the show.
• She opened up about the sexual assault on the set of Chicao P.D. while talking to Dax Shepard on his Armchair Expert podcast.
• Previously, she talked about her exit from the show on Refinery29’s “UnStyled” podcast last year.

Sophia Bush Recalled Her Time On Chicago PD; 'I Felt Trapped'

Sophia Bush opened up about the harrowing reasons why she decided to walk away from the lead role in Chicago PD, claiming she was assaulted in front of male colleagues who did nothing to help.

Bush, 36 spoke to Dax Shepard on his Armchair Expert podcast on Monday about her decision to leave her role as Detective Erin Lindsay in the successful Chicago Fire spin-off after the filming of four seasons. 

She told Dax during the podcast,

“It was a consistent onslaught barrage of abusive behavior."

She further added,

"You start to lose your way when someone assaults you in a room full of people and everyone literally looks away, looks at the floor, looks at the ceiling, and you’re the one woman in the room and every man who’s twice your size doesn’t do something."

The actress has not revealed the true identity of her assailant yet. She claimed she stayed on the show so long as she loved her colleagues and cared about their well-being and because bosses pressured her to stay or those same colleagues’ work would be in jeopardy.

Sophia recalled complaining multiple times at the beginning phase of season four. She told her bosses that she would quit if the situation was not sorted by the time they are at the end of the filming. But her concerns didn’t get any positive response so she had signed for seven seasons.

She recalled,

“I said, OK, you can put me in the position of going quietly of my own accord or you can put me in the position of suing the network to get me out of my deal and I’ll write an op-ed for The New York Times and tell them why."

She was yet to discover that NBC president Jennifer Salke had not been informed about her grievance. Shepard also mentioned that Bush and other female co-stars of One Tree Hill accused creator Mark Schwahn of sexual misconduct in 2017. 

She addressed that they were different experiences.

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Bush remembers receiving a complete understanding and cooperative behavior on Salke’s part.

Further, Sophia Bush also revealed that the producers took advantage of her breakup with Chad Murray.

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Previously, she discussed about her exit from the show last year on Refinery29’s “UnStyled” podcast. She compared her experience on the show that she was feeling "trapped in a burning building".