Overview
- Jennifer Marshall wrote on Instagram that appearing as Susan Hargrove in Season 5 would have helped her qualify for union health insurance while she was in remission.
- Marshall says a brief hospital reunion scene was filmed but not used, with a later comment indicating it was shot during Season 4; Netflix and the showrunners have not confirmed or addressed the claim.
- Fans are criticizing the handling of the character’s absence in the final season and sharing a petition urging release of cut material that drew nearly 400,000 signatures.
- Sadie Sink told Vulture in a December 25 interview that she has her own theory to account for the character’s disappearance in the story.
- Marshall previously disclosed a stage 3 cancer diagnosis in 2022 and says she was in remission during the Season 5 production window.