‘Shameless’ Star Emma Kenney Addresses Emmy Rossum’s Exit From Showtime Series - Deadline

“We 100% felt like a family, and we still do,” said Emma Kenney of her fellow Shameless cast members.

Kenney said her relationship with Rossum, who played her sister on the show, felt like a siblingship “in good and bad ways.

Asked if she felt like she was living in Rossum’s shadow on the show Kenney replied, “I felt that dynamic for sure and I never understood it

I was 9 and she was over 10 years older than me, so I’m like, ‘Why is there a weird competition here when I’m not trying to compete?’ I don’t know if it was other people on set creating that, or if it was her creating it, but I know I wasn’t creating it.”