After 11 seasons on 'SNL,' Cecily Strong took her final bow as a castmember.
The news broke in the afternoon before the show hit the air, withsharing a message of gratitude for Strong.
"My heart is bursting. I have a lot of big huge life changing love to unpack, so this is what I can say tonight," Strong wrote, sharing a memory from her very first day as an"Ten and a half years ago I got my dream job. The first actual work day I tried to be very cool and make it look like I knew what i was doing and I was supposed to be there. I left that night around 11 after saying goodbye to everyone.
"It felt as impossible to leave that night as it does now," she continued. "And my great friend Colin Jost ended up helping me again, this time by getting Elvis to sing me off ." Strong went on to apologize to her fans for not revealing her plans to leave earlier, and explained it was because she didn't"want the extra pressure on something already so emotional for me."
"I’m so grateful I got to have these wonderful past six shows to help me ease into it and get to meet and laugh and probably overly hug Molly, Marcello, Devon, and Michael who I think are not only brilliantly funny but really great humans. I am ready to go, but I’ll always know home is here," she concluded. "I’ve had the time of my life working with the greatest people on earth.
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