Are you surrounded by scandal or are you ready to let go? Stassi Schroeder, Lauren ConradAnd Nicole “Snooki” PolizziThese are some of the reality stars who have left their shows in a surprising way
Schroeder was fired for one. Vanderpump Rules after eight seasons alongside costar/frenemy Kristen Doute. Bravo confirmed their departures on June 2020, following their past insensitivity to race towards former castmate Faith Stowers resurfaced.
“It is important that I continue to take accountability for what I have said and done, while pushing myself to do better. I have grown significantly from the person I was then, and I am still filled with remorse and regret for the hurt I caused,” Schroeder wrote via Instagram days before her dismissal. “I am grateful for the people in my life that continue to check me and push me to evolve into a more educated person.”
Reality TV exits do not always come with controversy. Polizzi for her part, left Jersey Shore Family Vacation after three seasons, announcing her retirement in December 2019. Later, she explained everything exclusively to Us Weekly that her decision stemmed from her children’s reactions to her filming away from home, pointing out that her absences “scarred” son Lorenzo.
“Anytime I say ‘Mommy’s going to work,’ he’s like, ‘Mom, you cannot leave me again like you did. I was so upset. I don’t want you leaving,’” she recalled in January 2020. “So now every time I say I’m leaving for work, he goes, ‘How long are you leaving?’ It kind of gives him anxiety now. I can’t do that anymore. They are definitely happy that I’m not going to be leaving for days on end now.”
Polizzi spoke to her husband Jionni LaValleThe cast and crew followed her lead in expressing their disapproval. “[Producers] know they can’t change my mind, so everyone accepted it and they respected it,” she told Use. “They were always very accommodating when it came to us and moms and working to also being with our kids.”
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