9 Celebrities Who Walked Out On Popular Shows To Good And Bad Results For Their Career

Lisa Bonet

Bonet has of course departed from two popular shows in her lifetime. Once on her own, the other…by being forced out. She was originally the central focus of A Different World, but she left after season one when she became pregnant with daughter Zoe, with then-husband Lenny Kravitz. Bonet would later try to make a return to the Cosby Show soon after departing from A Different World (a pregnant central character on World was just too much for TV back then), but by 1991, the show that made her a star fired her due to “creative differences” and didn’t ask her to even return for the series finale.

After she left A Different World, the focus then went to Whitley (Jasmine Guy), Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) and the other colorful cast of characters at Hillman College. It wound up being a major success. Since leaving TV sitcoms, Bonet has been in just a handful of movies and had a few guest TV roles over the years. But mostly, she’s decided to focus on being a wife (to hottie actor Jason Momoa) and mother.