Emmy Rossum dispels ‘common misconception’ about her shocking ‘Shameless’ exit years later

Emmy Rossum unopen down nan long-standing rumor that she exited “Shameless” to commencement a family.

“I deliberation a communal misconception is I near to spell person babies,” nan actress, who portrayed Fiona Gallagher for 9 seasons connected nan deed 2010s bid from 2011 to 2019, shared connected Wednesday’s section of “Call Her Daddy.”

“That could not beryllium further from nan truth. I near to spell make nan show I had been processing that our showrunner John Wells had encouraged maine to kinda get successful nan driver’s spot of my ain profession and make my ain shows and make things.”

Rossum, 39, told big Alex Cooper that she had launched her ain accumulation company, Composition 8, successful 2019 and had already started moving connected her 2022 one-season play series, “Angelyne,” erstwhile she was offered 2 much years connected nan Showtime comedy.

“I wanted to enactment successful nan job. I loved nan job,” she explained elsewhere.

“I wasn’t stepping distant from nan job. I loved nan occupation until it felt for illustration location wasn’t capable juice to compression retired of nan lemon,” nan “Phantom of nan Opera” prima continued, adding that she felt “beholden” to move guardant pinch her ain show.

Rossum noted that she near “Shameless” pinch “a batch of condolences and sorrow” because she would miss her co-stars and “couldn’t judge that they were going to spell connected nan travel without [her].”

“But I was besides really excited. I felt for illustration I was launching and getting fresh to commencement this caller chapter,” she pointed out.

The Paul Abbott-created show, besides starring Jeremy Allen White and William Macy, ended pinch 11 seasons successful 2021.

Rossum was antecedently joined to Justin Siegel from 2008 to 2010. She tied nan knot for a 2nd clip to Sam Esmail successful 2017, and nan mates welcomed their first child, a girl named May, calved successful 2021.

The “Mystic River” prima and Esmail expanded their family successful 2023 erstwhile they welcomed a son, whose sanction hasn’t been revealed.

Rossum besides opened up astir her fertility travel and test pinch polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) before conceiving a kid done IVF.

According to nan Cleveland Clinic, PMOS is simply a “condition that affects your hormones,” and tin lead to “irregular menstrual periods, excess hairsbreadth growth, acne and infertility.”

“I had had a benignant of crazy travel to get pregnant, wherever I person [PMOS], truthful I had very debilitating ovarian cysts passim my 20s, and tried to get pregnant naturally,” she explained. “It didn’t hap … past tried IVF, and it happened successful a large way.”

Rossum besides recalled being susceptible aft giving birth and successful awe that she kept her girl “safe” wrong her for truthful agelong up of nan latter’s arrival.