Chicago PD Fans Still Miss Sophia Bush's Erin – But There's Zero Chance She'll Come Back

Six years after she left the show, the love for Chicago PD's Erin Lindsay is still pouring in.

In a recent Reddit post, users described her as an 'absolute FAVEEEEE' and said the show was 'completely different' without her. There was also discussion about whether the show will ever 'get that energy and chemistry back'.

Maybe it will. But if it does, it will be without Sophia Bush.

As an original cast member and one of the show's most popular characters, it made sense for the writers to leave the door open for her to return at some point. Indeed, moving Erin to New York could even have been seen as a step towards a possible new series of the franchise set in the Big Apple.

Another alternative would be for Erin to remain with the FBI in New York, but return to Chicago for an investigation. While this wouldn't 'fix' the Chicago PD in the eyes of Redditors, it would be something of a compromise.

But that ain't happening. Any chance of her making a comeback was gone long before she even left the show. Quite simply, Sophia Bush was so dismayed by the way she was treated on set that she went to great lengths to leave.

She was actually signed on for three more seasons of the show and had to fight to get out of her contract early.

Speaking to Dax Shepard on his Armchair Expert podcast, she described how her body was 'falling apart' as she was 'really, really unhappy.'

But it was perhaps the nature of the problems she was facing that made a comeback so unlikely. It was, she said, a 'constant onslaught of abusive behaviour' on set.'

She continued, 'When someone assaults you in a roomful of people, and everyone literally looks away… and you're the one woman in the room, and every man who's twice your size doesn't do something, you go, 'Oh, that wasn't worth defending? I'm not worth defending?''

In the end, she gave the network an ultimatum: 'I said, 'OK, you can put me in the position of going quietly of my own accord or you can put me in the position of suing the network to get me out of my deal and I'll write an op-ed for The New York Times and tell them why.''

Needless to say, they acquiesced and she left her contract early. But to say that bridges have been burned is an understatement. And any talk of a return seems a long way wide of the mark.

Source: Reddit, Armchair Expert podcast.