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Patrick J. Adams ‘Put in the Work’ to Score a Cameo on Pretty Little Liars So He Could Win Back Troian Bellisario

There was far more than met the eye when Patrick J. Adams made a cameo on Pretty Little Liars.
During an appearance on Sophia Bush’s podcast Work in Progress, on Jan. 30, Troian Bellisario revealed the “hilarious” story behind her husband’s guest-starring role on her show, which was actually part of a larger effort by Adams, 43, to win her back.
“It was the first season of Pretty Little Liars, and we actually broke up. I broke up with him,” Bellisario, 39, recalled. “And, like, the morning after we broke up, he got the audition for something for Pretty Little Liars, and he knew Gail Pillsbury, our casting director, and he prepared the crap out of it and went in and… did the audition, and Gail was like, ‘You’re amazing. I love you.'”
“And he was like, ‘Okay, but, like, I really want this role.’ And then he called his agents at the time and they were like, ‘Okay. Like, you’re coming in really hot for, like, an ABC Family, like, guest star role. Like, I don’t understand.'”
His agents were more focused on trying to get Adams on his “own show” at the time, but he doubled down on his desire to land the part in PLL — and he got it.
He immediately called Bellisario with the news. “He was like, ‘Okay, well, I know that we just broke up, but I’m gonna be at your table read and I’m gonna be on your set. So, you know, we should probably talk.’ And then we fully talked — which I think you know what that means — and got back together.”
The best part, though, was that Adams “wasn’t even at the table read” and he and Bellisario “never shot the same day” on the show.
“But it is a hilarious part of our history,” she said of her husband of eight years, with whom she shares daughters Aurora, 6, and Elliot, 3. “He put in the work.”
In the brief role, Adams played a college friend of Ezra’s (Ian Harding) on an episode of season 1. Bellisario later returned the favor as she made an appearance on two episodes of season 4 of Suits alongside her then-fiancé. She played a law student and intern at an immigration law firm who caught the eye of Adams’ Mike Ross, and first appeared in a flashback before starring in a full episode.
At the time, she told PEOPLE it was a “blast” to be onscreen with Adams, who had proposed to her the year before.
“It’s just always so much fun to get to play around with your partner, because you have so much in life to draw on, and you have so much trust. When he tells me that something isn’t working in a scene, I trust him to the end of the earth.”
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Plus, the Suits set was a familiar one for her after four years. “I’m usually there kind of hanging around, getting Patrick snacks, so it’s really fun for me to have something to do.”
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