“I didn’t want to be dating one of my costars–my goal on the show was to be professional. But sometimes you can’t help who you have a connection with, and you can only fight it for so long–which I did for a really, really long time.”–Nina Dobrev tells Seventeen that she didn’t mean to fall in love with The Vampire Diaries costar Ian Somerhalder but in the end, she did.

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