While their on-screen relationship was darling, it seems that wasn’t the case in real life for Sophia Bush and Jason Beghe. In 2017, Variety reported that Sophia Bush’s departure from “Chicago P.D.” at the end of its fourth season was partly due to verbal abuse from co-star Jason Beghe. Furthermore, NBC launched an investigation in 2016 after receiving “multiple complaints about Beghe’s behavior on set.”
The following year, Us Weekly shared a similar report. The publication noted that during an interview on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, Bush hinted that there were serious issues on set. “I feel like I was standing butt naked, bruised and bleeding in the middle of Times Square, screaming at the top of my lungs and not a single person stopped to ask if they could help me,” she explained. She added that the experience was “a consistent onslaught barrage of abusive behavior.”
Bush then explained she thought staying with the show would be best for those around her, but it ended up taking too much of a toll on her. “I quit because, what I’ve learned is I’ve been so programmed to be a good girl and to be a work horse and be a tug boat that I have always prioritized tugging the ship for the crew, for the show, for the group, ahead of my own health,” she recalled. “My body was, like, falling apart, because I was really, really unhappy.”
