Dobrev left the show after season 6 in 2015, citing unequal pay in relation to her male co-stars, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder.
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"It felt like they were saying that all the hard work I was putting into it didn’t matter to them and that I wasn't an equal to my male counterparts, and so that was upsetting to me," Dobrev said of her decision to leave after season 6.
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