Why Hilary Barry Really Quit Her Job

Hilary Barry was so desperate to leave TV3 she'd been planning to quit for months - and she's revealed she left without another job to go to.

In a tell-all interview for Next magazine, Barry says she had to leave TV3 because "I couldn't take it anymore".

Barry has mostly remained silent about the reasons behind her July departure, but the 46-year-old reveals to Next she had been planning to leave since Christmas, 2015.

"It'd be fair to say I got to a stage where I felt sad about my work life, and I didn't think it was good for my mental and physical health to stay there. I thought it was time for me to walk out the door, on my own terms," Barry tells Next.

"I haven't regretted that decision for a moment. That might surprise some people, because they look from the outside and go, 'Oh, but that was such a dream job.' And it was, for a long time. But it wasn't in the last year."
"You just get to a stage ... I couldn't take it anymore. I actually couldn't take it. It was time for me to go, to preserve my own sanity."

Read the full story on the NZ Herald. 

- NZ Herald