‘NCIS’ Alum Pauley Perrette Will ‘Never Return’ to Acting and Is a ‘Different Person Now’: ‘Going Back Would Take Away From This Life of True Authenticity’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director “NCIS” favorite Pauley Perrette recently told Hello magazine that she has no intention of returning to acting.
Her last major screen credit was the starring role of the CBS sitcom “Broke,” which ran for only one season and 13 episodes in 2020.
Perrette announced her retirement shortly thereafter, and now she said she will “never return” to the screen. “I’m not ungrateful for the benefits that it gave to me,” Perrette said. “But I’m a different person now and I want to be here for it – the good and the bad and the painful.
I want to be me all the time, and it takes a good amount of courage for me to say that to myself but it’s authentically how I feel.” “At this point in my life I have this deep need to find authenticity in everything, and being an actor, especially at certain points in my life, was a great escape,” she continued. “It’s like a drug because I didn’t have to be me, I could be somebody else.
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