Eve Reveals ‘Heartbreaking’ Reason Her UPN Show Was Canceled

Eve has revealed the behind-the-scenes drama that led to her UPN sitcom Eve getting canceled after three seasons in 2006.

The rapper-turned-actress sat down the TV One interview series Uncensored and admitted she played a role in her self-titled show got canned.

“I was the youngest, at the time, of the cast. A lot of them were just getting married, just buying their first house, or like just having babies,” she shared in a preview clip. “I was still going to the club trying to get to set at like 9 a.m. Trying to get to a table read.”

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She offered advice advice to anyone fortunate enough to have a steady job on a TV show.

“Don’t do that ever,” she said about going to the club on a work night.

She continued, “It took me a while to figure out that rhythm because I had always been on tour all my life, pretty much up until that point. I think for me to offset some of that, I was still trying to hang out at night, which was not good.”

The show focused on a group of friends learning how to navigate love and life, and co-starred Ali Landry, Natalie Desselle-Reid, Jason George, Brian Hooks, and Sean Maguire.

“When the show ended it was definitely heartbreaking. Because at that time, we had done three seasons and we were a family at this point,” Eve said. “I do believe a lot of it had to do with the fact that I was trying to straddle both sides of my life. Like still trying to hold on to hanging out and I was late a lot.”

Eve rose to prominence following the release of her debut album Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders’ First Lady in 1999.

She was given her own sitcom following the success of fellow music star Brandy Norwood’s hit series Moesha, which ran on UPN from 1996 to 2001.

Eve told Uncensored she didn’t really take the TV opportunity seriously.

“I do think about it sometimes when I look back on it. I’m like, ‘Wow I don’t believe in regrets, but that is one time in my life when I wish I would have taken it a little more seriously than I did,'” she said.

Watch her full Uncensored episode this Sunday, Sept. 20 at 10 P.M. ET/9C on TV One.