Pauley Perrette is maintaining her retirement from acting.
The 55-year-old actress, most well known for her role on NCIS for 15 years, has not appeared on television since her 2020 CBS sitcom, Broke.
In a new interview, Pauley opened up about why she has no plans to return to acting.
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“I’m not ungrateful for the benefits that it gave to me,” she shared with Hello!. “But I’m a different person now, and I want to be here for it – the good and the bad and the painful. I want to be me all the time, and it takes a good amount of courage for me to say that to myself but it’s authentically how I feel.”
“At this point in my life I have this deep need to find authenticity in everything, and being an actor, especially at certain points in my life, was a great escape; it’s like a drug because I didn’t have to be me, I could be somebody else. My character didn’t have all of the problems that I was having,” Pauley added. “It’s why I only watch documentaries, I want the truth. For me, going back to being an actor would be taking away from this life of true authenticity that I’m living 100% of the time.”
Pauley revealed about two years ago that she suffered a massive stroke in 2021.
Her last public appearance was at the Los Angeles LGBT Center Gala back in April 2023.
