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Why This TV Star Doesn’t Regret Turning Down A $27 Million Deal To Shoot Another Season · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Former e Er star
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Speaker 1: Julianna Margulis was responsible for one of the most famous
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Speaker 1: note thank yous in TV history when she opted to
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Speaker 1: walk away from a twenty seven million dollar offer for
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Speaker 1: two more seasons of the hit show back in two thousand.
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Speaker 1: She was widely criticized for passing on the pay day,
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Speaker 1: and in the new memoir Sunshine Girl, An Unexpected Life,
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Speaker 1: she reveals how hard a decision it was, but when
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Speaker 1: she does not regret. Everyone told her she'd be nuts
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Speaker 1: to say no, except her dad, who advised her to
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Speaker 1: simply follow her heart, not her bank account. She writes,
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Speaker 1: my decision to leave was not an easy one. It
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Speaker 1: was perhaps the hardest one I've ever had to make,
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Speaker 1: But I felt confident in my choice. This was my decision,
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Speaker 1: no one else is. After months of harrowing, soul searching,
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Speaker 1: I decided to go with my heart. The next day,
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Speaker 1: with supreme clarity, I politely turned down the offer from
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Speaker 1: e Er. She also admits it being blasted by the
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Speaker 1: media afterward made it even harder, but she knows she
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have the life she has today if she had
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Speaker 1: signed that deal. Sunshine Girl Julianna Margaulie's out now. That's
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Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.