Like many people who grew up in the early 2000s, I was obsessed with Gossip Girl at one point. Taylor Momsen’s Jenny Humphrey was a standout character in the Gossip Girl cast for me because she was more around my age than the other characters on the show. But then out of the blue in the middle of Season 4, she was suddenly no longer on the show. The actress has now shared what happened behind the scenes.

Momsen, who is currently 32, has spent most of her adult years as the frontwoman of the rock band The Pretty Reckless ( one time she got bitten by a bat during one of her concerts ). When she was on the Call Her Daddy podcast, she said this of her departure from Gossip Girl :

They wrote me out of the show so I could go on tour and be in a band… I just kind of Ir

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