Why Kat Graham Says 'The Door's Absolutely Closed' for Her to Revisit 'Vampire Diaries' (Exclusive)

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Kat Graham back should  return. ET's Will Marfuggi spoke to Graham, who played the teenage witch, Bonnie Bennett, for all eight seasons of the long-running series, about her future on the show, and why the singer-actress is focusing on her new music.«I mean, eight years, you know eight years of my life,» Graham, who has been vocal in the past about not returning for a reboot, said of the time she spent on . «I feel like I spent more time as a character than I spent as myself»She continued, «I'm still that girl that was running around rogue, trying to play gigs and, I finally feel like, with especially all the films that I have — five films out this year, it's my second album I'm dropping this year, I feel like I'm almost playing catchup in a weird way as an artist.»After giving so much of herself to the show, the recently engaged Graham said that she's pouring herself into her music, upcoming film roles and activism — something she said she put on hold while filming the show.«I feel like I gave that show, and hopefully the fans that watch it, eight years of my life and poured so much into it and sacrificed a lot of time with my family, even time doing work with the UN refugee agency, doing my activism — so much of that has to get put on hold when you're on a twenty-two episode series for eight years,» She shared. «So, as grateful, and I mean grateful, because I grew from that show, I became who I really am in my twenties from that show, for me, yeah the door is closed.»While the door is closed on , it's wide open for the rest of her career, with Graham telling ET there's so much she still wants to do as both «an artist and as a human.»«It's more open to myself and the different characters I wanna play, and the different.