Nina Dobrev Reveals How Vampire Diaries Gig Induced Main Relationship Drama

Throughout an look on Jessica Szohr’s “XOXO” podcast, the 33-year-old actress recalled some relationship drama again when the long-lasting CW present was within the early levels of improvement.

“They had been gonna select him [for the role of Damon Salvatore],” Dobrev defined. “They ended up not selecting him, however I acquired solid after which it acquired awkward.”

After she landed the a part of Elena Gilbert, the connection got here to a direct finish. “We broke up,” she stated.

In a enjoyable twist, nevertheless, Dobrev sparked a brand new romance with costar Ian Somerhalder — who wound up enjoying Damon on the present. The 2 had been love pursuits on the present and dated IRL from 2010-2013.

After the 2 went their separate methods, he linked up with Nikki Reed — to whom he is been married since 2015. Somerhalder and Reed share one baby, daughter Bodhi. Nina, in the meantime, discovered love with Shaun White, who she’s been courting since 2020.

Final month, the Olympic snowboarder later confessed that he binge-watched “Vampire Diaries” in an effort to be nearer to Dobrev whereas she was filming a film overseas.

“I favored it. It was good,” he stated, including that when Dobrev left on a shoot for 3 months, he determined, “Oh, this shall be cool. I am going to begin the present. I am going to see her with out seeing her.”

Describing the sequence as “cool,” earlier than getting “slightly darkish,” White famous that as Elena discovered herself getting entangled with all these totally different guys, “I discovered myself actually rooting for them.”

“I do not know if that was wholesome or not,” he laughed, “However I did watch the present and it was actually humorous.”

He wrapped his temporary overview of it by joking, “I can not look ahead to Season 9.”