Here's how Bull's showrunner previously explained Eliza Dushku's abrupt exit

TVLine

When Dushku was cast on the CBS drama for a three-episode arc in March 2017, TVLine described her as being a "potential series regular." Thursday's New York Times bombshell noted that Bull had detailed plans for adding Dushku to the show full-time. Months before Dushku's $9.5 million sexual harassment payment was revealed yesterday, TVLine asked showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron about her exit. "I think what we all realized was… the only way to have kept her character in the show, because she is a lawyer, was if her law firm bought Bull’s company, and then you’re really changing the DNA of the whole show,” Caron said before this season. “There was no way to keep that sort of ‘duet’ working.”