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Nina Dobrev is sharing rare insight about her sudden departure from " The Vampire Diaries ."

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More than a decade after Elena Gilbert went into her magic sleep at the end of season six, the 36-year-old — who occasionally played Elena’s vampire doppelgänger Katherine Pierce — shared insight into how behind the scenes pay disparity with co-leads Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder led to her seeking a life outside Mystic Falls.

In fact, she recalled the pay differences she, Candice King and Kat Graham faced went all the way back to the pilot.

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"Candice, Kat, and I were the three lowest-paid series regulars in the first two s

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