Addressing her shocking exit from the series, the actress playing Abbie Mills claims she was treated differently from former co-star Tom Mison when she fell ill and developed an autoimmune condition.

• Jun 23, 2020

AceShowbiz - "Shame" star Nicole Beharie has accused "Sleepy Hollow" producers of killing her character because she got sick on set.

Fans were stunned when series favourite Abbie Mills was killed off in 2016, and now the actress claims TV bosses started treating her differently when she fell ill and developed an autoimmune condition.

"My co-star (Tom Mison) and I were both sick at the same time but I don't believe that we were treated equally," Nicole told the San Diego Tribune. "He was allowed to go back to England for a month (to recover); I was given Episode 9 to shoot on my own. So I pushed through it and then by the end of that episode I was in urgent care. And all the doctors, including the doctors that the studio was sending, were all confirming, 'Hey, she can't work right now'."

In an interview with the New York Times, Nicole added production was eventually shut down for two weeks but producers insisted she visit doctors regularly "to make sure I was actually sick".

"Months ensued and I got a lawyer. I got my hours down and worked through it," she shared. "But then I developed an autoimmune condition. I had C. difficile, which had me on eight different prescription medications. Sometimes I think that some people I was working with didn't like that I was unwell but loved by the audience. Everyone of colour on that show was seen as expendable and eventually let go."

Beharie claimed she held back on talking about the story because she was too bitter at the time.

"I tried to get work afterwards and people were like, 'We heard you were difficult'... but no one can say I was late or unprofessional or negative... I lost out on a lot of jobs and opportunities because of how somebody labelled me," she raged.

Nicole is now very much back on Hollywood's radar thanks to her new role in acclaimed new movie release "Miss Juneteenth".