Revealed: The Real Reason These Characters Left Their TV Shows

Columbus Short Had Some Scandals Of His Own

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Luckily, for the creators and crew of Scandal, Columbus Short didn’t cause any direct problems for the show. However, they were forced to let him go from the show and have his character Harrison Wright assassinated by the Secret Service.

Short had been having personal issues and had been arrested for attacking his then-wife in front of his children, assaulting a man in a bar fight, and threatening his wife with a knife. Although he hadn’t been a problem on-set, the show’s creators felt it was best to let him go and even helped to send him to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction.