Shailene Woodley reveals that she passed up numerous career opportunities during the period she was starring in the “Divergent” series due to an unspecified health ailment.
In an interview with the New York Times, the “Big Little Lies” star, 28, opens up about the “very scary” illness and the impact it had on her burgeoning career. “I haven’t spoken much about this yet publicly, and I will one day, but I was very, very sick in my early 20s,” she says. “While I was doing the ‘Divergent’ movies and working hard, I also was struggling with a deeply personal, very scary physical situation.” RELATED: Shailene Woodley Has To Choose Between Jamie Dornan And Sebastian Stan In ‘Endings, Beginnings’ Trailer This, she explained, led her to pass up