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When Ryan returned it looked like they might rekindle their relationship, however after finding out about her relationship with DJ, the yard guy, Ryan decided they should just be friends which they remained throughout most of the season. Marissa's relationships in the interim period seemed somewhat specifically chosen to take stabs at her mother — first with DJ, the lawn boy, and then a lesbian relationship with Alex Kelly , Seth's ex-girlfriend.

Marissa moved out of her mother's house briefly to live with Alex, returning home once she and Alex broke up. Her relationship with her mother improved little throughout the season. She did eventually rekindle her relationship with Ryan after a period of friendship and growing gradually closer, paticularly as she helped him with his brother Trey after he was released from prison. However this support Marissa provided Trey with for Ryan resulted in Trey getting the wrong idea, and under the influence attempting to rape her.

This caused inevitable tensions between Trey and her, which Ryan picked up on and became suspicious of, causing difficulties in their relationship. Ryan eventually found out about the attempted rape, which lead to a confrontation with Trey and turned violent. Trey had Ryan pinned down to the ground and was strangling him, when Marissa, having been warned by Seth and Summer, turned up and pleaded with Trey to let Ryan go. Trey continued despite this, and Marissa picked up a gun and shot Trey to save Ryan's life.

As the series' third season opened, Marissa was under investigation regarding the shooting of Trey Atwood. In an effort to shield her daughter, Julie attempted to obstruct justice by bribing Trey into accusing Ryan. Marissa becomes aware of this, and convinces Trey to confess the truth, detailing that Marissa fired only to protect her boyfriend, resulting in Ryan being let free and Marissa facing no legal liability as she was defending another person's life using proportional force in the circumstances.

Despite a lack of legal repercussions, the event caused Marissa to be expelled from The Harbor School , as it was cited along with her past of flagrant shoplifting. She eventually was readmitted after a campaign to let her in from Ryan, Seth and Summer with the suprising assistance of Taylor Townsend as well.

However while at Newport Union she befriended a local surfer called Johnny Harper , who eventually fell in love with her and caused rifts in her relationship with Ryan. However Marissa confirmed her committment to Ryan, and wrote Johnny a letter saying that whilst he was her friend and she cared for him, she would never love him. This resulted in Johnny falling to his death after a drinking spree, which eventually caused further riffs and distance for Marissa and Ryan from each other.

They broke up shortly afterwards, conceding their relationship was not working. Marissa then fell for Volchok, whom she broke up with him when she found him cheating on her at the prom. Some time later, Marissa decided to go to visit Berkley, the university where she would like to go to study, but the experience turns out to be a failure, and Marissa, begins to reflect on her life.

Barton also revealed that she was bullied on set and didn't feel any support from the rest of the cast or crew. So, when producers gave her the option to leave the series with the potential of a future return, she decided to kill her character off because it didn't make sense to her for someone like Marissa to drive off in the sunset. After leaving The O. Mack is a pop culture writer and nerd from Oregon who enjoys binging Netflix, listening to Star Wars audiobooks, watching James Bond movies, and reading interesting, behind-the-scenes facts about his favorite movies and TV shows.

He studied journalism and public relations in college. You can follow him at mackthemuser. I was a high school senior living on Long Island, thousands of miles away from the sound stage, unaware that things behind the scenes of a TV show can often be even more dramatic than what's happening on screen.

In the years since, though I've grown closer to Hollywood both literally and figuratively, I've remained curious as to what the real story was behind Barton's exit from the show, especially because she was the breakout star. She was on magazine covers.

The paparazzi documented her every move. She was a burgeoning fashion icon. To me, she had it all. Over the years, there have been a handful of interviews that have tip-toed around the decision to kill off Marissa, but a definitive reason has never been revealed. And when asked if Barton wanted off the show, he said, "Mischa didn't want off the show any more than any of the other kids wanted off the show.

It was a complicated chemistry with the cast For her part, Barton, now 35, hasn't really addressed her shocking exit from The O. Because 15 years after Marissa's death aired, I remain just as curious about what the hell happened as I was sitting in front of the TV in my childhood bedroom with my jaw on the floor. Sure, the show went on for one more season sans Marissa, but that episode truly felt like the series finale for me, a farewell to my favorite show as I knew it.

So, on a whim, I reached out to Barton, not really knowing if she would want to talk about her time on The O. And I was admittedly surprised when she not only agreed, but opened up in such an honest and vulnerable way while on a lunch break. News in that May 14 phone interview. News has reached out to Warner Bros. TV and they declined to comment. Fox did not respond to our request. While she is working on a few projects to, as she put it, " really talk about" what she experienced during her three years on the show, Barton answered all of my questions about saying goodbye to Marissa Cooper and how she really felt about leaving The O.

News: There have been so many rumors about why Marissa was killed off, so I wanted to hear, directly from you, when did those conversations about you leaving The O. Mischa Barton: It's a bit complicated. It started pretty early on because it had a lot to do with them adding Rachel [Bilson] in last minute as, after the first season, a series regular and evening out everybody's pay—and sort of general bullying from some of the men on set that kind of felt really s--tty.

But, you know, I also loved the show and had to build up my own walls and ways of getting around dealing with that and the fame that was thrust specifically at me. Just dealing with like the amount of invasion I was having in my personal life, I just felt very unprotected, I guess is the best way to put it.

After everything that happened to her, it seemed like things were finally coming around. Then she and Ryan got into a car accident, Ryan pulled her from the wreckage, and she died in his arms. I had always been supporting in The Sixth Sense and any of those things. My dream was to be offered those lead roles, so that's what happened. It just felt like it was the best thing for me and my health and just in terms of not really feeling protected by my cast and crew at that point.

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