I can well imagine how wracking this role must be and she has been so generous with it, holding nothing back. I agree, it would have softened the blow if they'd just been honest about it. Plus she's still young and must have so many ambitions to play different parts but with her being in every episode she was much more restricted than the other actors. That was a serious mistake to zero in to one character instead of keeping the stories more evenly distributed. They could still have carried on with Ethan and I think Josh was told that his character would be developed through several seasons so I'm sure it was a shock.