Pakistan, July 11 -- Emmy Rossum has revealed that her years-long equal pay battle on Shameless was only resolved because news of the dispute leaked to the public and even then, the turnaround was astonishing.

Speaking on Call Her Daddy with host Alex Cooper, Rossum described how a pay standstill that had dragged on for more than five years was settled within a single day once the story became public in late 2016.

"I was on a writer's retreat and I was procrastinating and I opened up Twitter and it was a headline that we were in a stalemate and I was shook," she said. "It's a private business negotiation and I never imagined it would become public." Within hours, the tide had turned.

"People seemed to write other articles, like immedia...