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This foreign born A- list mostly television actress who was recently a regular in three separate shows at the same time had the opportunity this weekend to discuss why she left one of those shows, but chose to keep quiet about it.

I smell a confidential settlement.

Ruth Wilson

The Affair: Ruth Wilson Says There’s a “Much Bigger Story” About Her Sudden Exit

The strange mystery surrounding Ruth Wilson’s sudden departure from The Affair continues. Speaking with The New York Times, the actress shot down the two most salient theories about why she left the show, leading to her character’s sudden death on the Showtime drama: “It isn’t about pay parity, and it wasn’t about other jobs,” Wilson said, adding, “But I’m not really allowed to talk about it.” After a long pause, Wilson continued, cryptically: “There is a much bigger story.”

Wilson’s character, Alison Bailey, died toward the end of the drama’s fourth season. At first, it appeared that she had killed herself—but later on, it was revealed she’d been murdered. The death caused immediate uproar among fans, who wanted to know why the series’s protagonist had died so abruptly.

Wilson has batted away the notion that her departure had anything to do with pay parity before. On CBS This Morning, she denied just that after Gayle King mentioned that she had once complained in an interview that her co-star Dominic West earned more than her on the show. Beyond her initial comments to the Times, Wilson urged reporter Ruth La Ferla to reach out to show-runner Sarah Treem, who simply responded with the same statement Showtime initially sent out regarding Wilson’s exit: “The character of Alison had run its course. By completing her arc this season, the consequences of her death will lead to compelling story lines for our final season.”

In an interview immediately following Alison’s death, Treem told The Hollywood Reporter that she decided to kill the character off only after Wilson had indicated that she wanted to leave the show. In her own interview with Vulture, Wilson said that she had no say in how her character left the show. “I always had the image that she would walk into the sunset with her son with no man. That’s what I hoped for her. But no.” – Source

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