Late last year, Bates reached a point where an unnamed movie left her in tears on her couch. After more than 50 years in the business, she had enough.
“It becomes my life,” she told the New York Times in a new interview. “Sometimes I get jealous of having this talent. Because I can’t hold it back, and I just want my life.”
The actress, who won an Oscar for her role in Misery and Emmys for her roles in American Horror Story and Two and a Half Men, contacted her agent the next day and let them know she was ready to retire.

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