But as the Underdog actress admitted, “Granted, a little more complicated to get out of a television show than that.” So how did she navigate her exit from the show? As she noted, her negotiations—though she never specified exactly who with—required a few stipulations.
“They went, ‘Well we can’t let you out of your deal,'” she explained. “‘But we can write you out of the show so you can go on tour. You can’t act in anything else, though.'”
To which the How the Grinch Stole Christmas star added with a laugh, “I went, ‘That’s fine, that’s not what I’m trying to do.'”
And despite having to find the workarounds, Taylor expressed gratitude for being able to pursue her music career.
“They’re like, ‘But if we don’t write you in the episode, you’re not in the episode,'” she added. “And they really allowed me to follow my dream, and so I’m forever grateful and thankful to them.”
