14. After six seasons, Murray and Burton exited the sequence in 2009. But the seeds for Burton’s departure have been planted a lot earlier, she revealed in her memoir. 

After her pricey pal Scott Kirkpatrick was killed whereas serving in Iraq in the summertime of 2007, her life “took a turn,” she wrote, his loss of life snapping her “priorities and goals back into focus.”

“I had spent the previous few years wandering, never really finding my place, but I wanted more,” she defined. “I wanted a family. I wanted a home that could be a refuge and a blank canvas that would allow me to daydream, to take risks, to try and fail and try again. I wanted to push myself every day. I wanted to make every moment intentional. Wake up intentionally. Work intentionally. Eat intentionally. And rest intentionally.” So she give up, started writing a novel and booked a one-way ticket to Paris.

15. At the time, nonetheless, Schwahn instructed a bunch of followers in Paris that their departures have been attributable to a contract dispute, based on The Los Angeles Times. “I know they’ve been offered great things, and hopefully they’ll decide to come back,” he stated. “If they don’t that’s always a possibility…[the show] has made it through some of the riskier moves we’ve done.”

Murray additionally spoke out to the present’s viewers, saying in a video, “They’re not bringing me back next year…because they want to save money. Start blogging and being pissed off.” While Burton by no means returned, Murray made an look within the ultimate season.