Gellar explains the real reasons she quit.

In the latest Big Issue, Sarah Michelle Gellar discusses why she didn't want to carry on making Buffy.

"You think about it ever year for eight years (sic): when is the right time? But all the signs pointed to the eighth year. I was emotionally and physically exhausted. I wasn't being challenged in the way that I needed any more.

"I really didn't have any [input]. Maybe I should have, 'cause then we wouldn't have got so lost. It took me a while to work up the nerve to say something.

"It didn't feel like Buffyå But it's easy to be vocal now, because Joss isn't going to be yelling at me tomorrow."

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