Nina Dobrev ‘Elena’ Quits ‘Vampire Diaries’

Actress Nina Dobrev has announced that she will
be leaving the Vampire Diaries franchise.
Dobrev, 26, revealed her decision in a lengthy
post on Instagram.
She wrote:
“I’ve just spent the most beautiful weekend on
Lake Lanier in Georgia with my own TVD Family,
the cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries. I
want to be the first to tell you that it wasn’t just
a holiday celebration, it was a goodbye party. I
always knew I wanted Elena’s story to be a six
season adventure, and within those six years I
got the journey of a lifetime. I was a human, a
vampire, a doppelganger, a crazy immortal, a
doppelganger pretending to be human, a human
pretending to be a doppelganger. I got
kidnapped, killed, resurrected, tortured, cursed,
body-snatched, was dead and undead, and
there’s still so much more to come before the
season finale in May. Elena fell in love not once,
but twice, with two epic soulmates, and I myself
made some of the best friends I’ll ever know and
built an extended family I will love forever.”
The show’s executive producer, Julie Plec,
confirmed her exit.
“Saying goodbye to Nina is both bittersweet and
beautiful. After six-plus years together, the
entire cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries has
reached a level of closeness that I don’t think
any of us ever expected,” Plec said. “Nina is
excited to spread her wings, get some rests,
travel the world, and also take it by storm,and
we support her a thousand-fold. We will miss
Nina and the four hundred characters she played,
but we look forward to the insane and exciting
challenge of continuing to tell stories of our
Salvatore Brothers and our much-loved and
gifted ensemble.”