The Pretty Reckless singer exited mid-season, convincing the writers to help her out after struggling to get released from her TV contract
Taylor Momsen said that while leaving “Gossip Girl” at the height of its fame was an easy personal decision, breaking free from her “lock-and-key contract” with the CW and Warner Bros. was far more difficult. The actress eventually convinced the writers to write her out of the show — and, as she put it, she just “Irish dipped” from set one day.
Momsen appeared on Wednesday’s episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, and told host Alex Cooper about her experience filming the hit CW series where she played Upper East Side newcomer Jenny Humphrey for four of the show’s six seasons.
“Can you talk to me a little bit about having this hard time between separating yourself from Jenny Humphrey and Taylor and how the did you mentally do that?” Cooper asked.
“Well, I quit,” Momsen said with a laugh. “I left. I went, ‘I can’t do this.’ It was a struggle there for years, but what I did was I treated it very much like a job. I was professional, I showed up.”
The “Gossip Girl” star said she realized early on that she wanted to focus on music but added that, understandably, people didn’t take her seriously as a 14-year-old trying to front a rock band.
“How early on did you actually know I wanna get the f–k out of here?” Cooper asked. Momsen said that while it took her until the fourth season to finally exit the series, she knew she wanted to leave by Season 2 when she started her band The Pretty Reckless.
