Ashleigh Murray was about to pause her acting career when she auditioned for “Riverdale,” she revealed in an interview with Collider. At the time, she divulged she was living in New York City, owed $4,700 in back rent, and was on the cusp of quitting for six months so she could focus on making enough money to bail out the sinking ship her finances had become.
“So, I went on the audition, and the next day, I was on my way home from the grocery store with $12 in my bank account. I had to call my mom and ask her for an extra $5 because the last of it went to food at Whole Foods, just so that I could get home,” she explained. “If I didn’t do something soon,” Murray told PopSugar, “I was going to have to move back to Kansas City, which wasn’t an option.”
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At that moment, her manager apparently called and told her to drop what she was doing and head to Warner Bros. NYC headquarters to audition again. From there, she became caught up in a life-changing whirlwind. “And then, 20 minutes after that, it was, ‘Okay, they might be flying you to L.A. to test, so make sure that all of your travel information is up to date.’ Twenty minutes after that, they were like, ‘Okay, you’re going to L.A.’ I had never even tested before,” she told Collider.
