Cameron Monaghan: Why I'm returning to Shameless

TVLine

The actor says he needed to spend "some time away" from the Showtime drama for "creative reasons, as well as business, which many other actors had done on the show years earlier" after doing the show for 10 years. But Monaghan approached showrunner John Wells about returning. “We got to a place, both creatively and financially, where I felt comfortable coming back," Monaghan said. "Much of that had to do with what we were going to do with the story. So I’m really excited to be able to go back and do that.”