Buffy the Vampire Slayer star resurfaces to reveal she’s a therapist in Boston nearly 10 years after quitting Hollywood

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The star never returned to screens after accusing a co-star of sexual harassment while working on a huge TV series

  • Published: 12:09 ET, Nov 8 2024
  • Updated: 12:10 ET, Nov 8 2024

A BUFFY the Vampire Slayer star has revealed a brand new career - almost a decade after quitting Hollywood.

Eliza Dushku Palandjian's career took off when she landed the role as Faith in the smash-hit series in the 90s.

Eliza Dushku is still slaying at a brand new career path

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Eliza Dushku is still slaying at a brand new career pathCredit: Instagram

The Buffy The Vampire Slayer star has quit acting after going back to school and getting an undergraduate degree

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The Buffy The Vampire Slayer star has quit acting after going back to school and getting an undergraduate degreeCredit: Instagram

She played Faith in the smash-hit supernatural series in the late 90s and into the early noughites

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She played Faith in the smash-hit supernatural series in the late 90s and into the early noughitesCredit: Alamy

She played the iconic character in the supernatural drama for seven years until its cancellation in 2003.

The role saw the star go onto land other high-profile gigs such as Bull, Eloise, Jane Wants A Boyfriend and Bring It On!

However, Eliza has revealed to fans she's now a therapist in a drastic career change, nearly 10 years after quitting Hollywood.

The 43-year-old went back to school and successfully earned her undergraduate degree and completed the requirements for a masters degree in clinical mental health and counselling.

With her degree now in psychedelic-assisted therapy, Eliza and her husband Peter Palandjian have been funding trials in that area of health.

The mum-of-two also relocated back to Boston, the city she was born in after her abrupt departure from LA.

Eliza hasn't acted since she accused her Bull co-star Michael Weatherly of sexual harassment in 2017.

Following the claims, which Weatherly denies, the star was written off the show and told plans to include her a full cast member had been cancelled.

Eliza was later paid a confidential settlement reported to be $9.5million by Bull's network CBS.

Eliza Dushku claims Bull co-star Michael Weatherly 'threatened to take her to rape van' in 'constant sexual harassment'

Speaking previously about the ordeal, she said she was promised a "six-year" contract to play her character J.P. Nunnelly, a criminal defense lawyer.

Eliza alleged: "However, in my first week on my new job, I found myself the brunt of crude, sexualized, and lude verbal assault [of Michael Weatherly].

"I suffered near constant sexual harassment from my co-star."

TV Show Cancellations 2024

While many TV shows were renewed this year, many did not get as lucky and were axed by their respective networks. Here's a list of some shows that didn't make the cut for another season:

  • Blue Bloods - CBS (cancelled after its 14th season)
  • The Good Doctor - ABC (cancelled after its 7th season)
  • Grown-ish - Freeform (cancelled after its 6th season)
  • Good Trouble - Freeform (cancelled after its 5th season)
  • Magnum P.I. - moves to NBC (cancelled after its 5th season)
  • Station 19 - ABC (cancelled after its 7th season)
  • Superman & Lois - CW (cancelled after its 4th season)
  • What We Do in the Shadows - FX (cancelled after its 6th season)
  • Young Sheldon - CBS (cancelled after its 7th season)
  • NCIS: Hawai'i - CBS (cancelled after its 3rd season)
  • CSI: Vegas - CBS (cancelled after its 3rd season)
  • So Help Me Todd - CBS (cancelled after its 2nd season)
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