Colton Haynes Reveals Why He Left Teen Wolf and Arrow

The 33-year-old actor addressed his exits from each reveals in his just-released memoir, “Miss Reminiscence Lane.” Within the e-book, he says that in relation to “Teen Wold,” there have been extra elements at play than only a contract negotiation stalemate.

“The actual reality was that they did not wish to pay me the identical quantity as everybody else,” the “San Andreas” star wrote, “which wasn’t rather a lot to start with by Hollywood requirements, though my working quote—the charge I’d be paid to seem on anybody else’s present—was larger than many of the solid’s.”

“It did not assist that I used to be represented by a crew of people that made the Teen Wolf manufacturing’s life a residing hell,” he continued. “So to be able to get again at my crew, the manufacturing refused to pay me the usual wage.”

The actor shortly transitioned to a different function on “Arrow” the place he performed Roy Harper/Arsenal all through the present’s eight seasons. Although he had been an everyday on Season 7, he solely returned in a restricted capability for the present’s remaining outing.

“I had walked away from my full-time job on Arrow in the beginning of the yr, supposedly as a result of my contract had ended,” he admitted, “however it was often because I used to be too depressed and I could not stand working with one in all my solid mates.”

Within the e-book, the actor additionally opened up about his struggles with habit, describing his remaining bender the place he consumed mass quantities of Xanax and alcohol and wakened within the hospital with a bracelet named “Bruce Stark” — an alias his pals used to maintain his hospital admission out of the press.

“After every week at Cedars, I nonetheless could not stroll,” he wrote. “A health care provider advised me that I might taken a near-lethal dose of Xanax on my remaining bender, of which I had no recollection; it did not sound like one thing I’d do, however I needed to admit that I did not acknowledge the individual I might was. I had no concept what his intentions have been.”

Colton defined he turned to ingesting to alleviate painful life moments and reminiscences — together with his alleged sexual abuse by his uncle when he was six and his mom’s loss of life — in addition to the pressures of intense public scrutiny and the shaming he’d get on-line.

“I used to be drunk and too fats, too skinny, too profitable, too washed up, too fairly, too threatening, too brief, too sincere, too homosexual, too straight, too cocky, too severe, too goofy, too this, too that,” he mentioned of the labels placed on him.

Haynes is sort of 4 years sober now and says the street to sobriety is “the one street I’ve ever been on the place I’ve saved each arms firmly on the wheel, the one one I’ve ever taken gradual, observed the warning indicators, and given pedestrians the fitting of approach.”

His memoir, “Miss Reminiscence Lane,” is out now.