Shenae Grimes keeps her head down as she arrives back at LAX airport in Los Angeles on Tuesday night (May 22).

The 22-year-old actress was in New York City for a week of major events, including the CW Upfront Presentation.

Shenae shared with US Weekly on the red carpet: “Playing Annie this season was really hard for me because I had zero connection to her storyline whatsoever. To me, it seemed really off-base that my character would even be behaving that way, because she does come from a pretty solid family and there was never any mention of her reaching out to her parents at all for money or anything.”

She added, “I mean, they had a house in Beverly Hills, her mom’s living in Paris — it’s not like they’re broke! So I couldn’t really wrap my head around the thought process behind what was going on, so that made it difficult.”

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