Euphoria’s Colman Domingo Reacts to Barbie Ferreira Leaving Amid Drama Rumors: ‘She Was Moving on Creatively’

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Denying the drama. Colman Domingo has heard the rumors surrounding Barbie Ferreira’s exit from Euphoria — and he’d like everyone to calm down.“I don’t think there’s really any drama to it.

I think people make more drama than it actually is,” Domingo, 52, exclusively told Us Weekly at the Creative Coalition TV Humanitarian Awards on Sunday, September 11. “It’s an ensemble show and I think she was moving on creatively.”The model, 25, who played Kat Hernandez on the teen drama, announced last month that she would be exiting the series.“After four years of getting to embody the most special and enigmatic character Kat, I’m having to say a very teary-eyed goodbye,” she wrote via her Instagram Story at the time. “I hope many of you could see yourself in her like I did and that she brought you joy to see her journey into the character she is today.

I put all my care and love into her and I hope you guys could feel it.”Ferreira’s surprising departure comes months after The Daily Beast published a report that speculated the Unpregnant star and creator Sam Levinson had a falling out, which resulted in the actress walking off set.Domingo, who portrayed Ali Muhammed on the second season of the HBO series, explained that despite false allegations of behind-the-scenes drama, there has been “nothing that has actually happened” between Ferreira and Levinson, 37, that contributed to her surprisingly early exit.“I think people like to spin it into something more when it’s actually you know certain story lines emerge, some things recede,” he revealed to Us. “Things become larger, some things smaller, and it’s just about storytelling.”The Pennsylvania native also shared that the Nope star’s departure has made it more of “something that was