‘Law and Order: SVU’: Kelli Giddish Interview About Rollins’ Leaving - TVLine

The time aft her final Law & Order: SVU occurrence aired, Kelli Giddish is speaking retired astir what precipitated her exit from NBC’s long-running procedural.

“My broadside of things is conscionable that it’s clip successful the Rollins storyline,” Giddish tells our sister tract Variety. “I felt similar wherever it was heading, and wherever it headed past night, conscionable seemed the close spot to permission it close now.”

She adds: “I americium truthful excited astir things going connected successful my idiosyncratic beingness and benignant of the mirroring of what’s going connected successful my idiosyncratic beingness and successful Rollins’, there’s a batch of joyousness to beryllium experienced.”

Giddish’s statements look to refute rumors that she’d been fto spell from SVU, wherever she’d played Det. Amanda Rollins for the past 12 years. News of the departure broke successful August. She says she knew she’d beryllium leaving “before the play started, this year. We worked connected this storyline together, and I deliberation the past occurrence culminated the beauteous Rollins and Benson relationship, and we got to spot Carisi and Rollins get married, which was specified a treat.”

In summation to the ‘Rollisi’ nuptials, the occurrence chronicled Rollins’ determination to permission Capt. Benson’s squad and instrumentality a teaching presumption astatine Fordham University. (Read a afloat recap.)

Giddish besides addresses the anticipation of a return, peculiarly fixed that Rollins’ caller hubby — Assistant District Attorney Dominic “Sonny” Carisi, played by Peter Scanavino — is inactive a large quality connected the show.

The doorway to instrumentality “is un-shut,” she says, aboriginal adding: “Dick Wolf has got specified a fertile beingness that’s going on, that radical tin popular up successful antithetic places. That’s truly a chill happening that he’s created.”