And it makes sense why viewers can feel so strongly about fictional characters.
every night with them after work.
But the young star chose to exit the show before filming the eighth and final season.

“I’d been going nonstop since I was 8 years old,” Thomas toldPeoplein 2013.
“I wanted to go to school, to travel and have a bit of a break.”
And take a break he did!

“Did he want to do films?
Did he want to go to school?”
Edelstein wanted to be true to her character.

The sitcom starred Penny Marshall as Laverne and Cindy Williams as Shirley, two wise-cracking best friends.
But she had good reason.
“And I said, ‘You know, I can’t sign this.’

And it went back and forth and back and forth and it just never got worked out.”
And he played Harper well, reportedly raking in $1.8 million per episode, according toEntertainment Tonight.
Despite the drama, Sheen was supposed to return for the sitcom’s finale episode.

Lorre shared, “And then we would drop a piano on him.
We thought it was funny.
He didn’t.”

But Fiona didn’t return home.
Not even for the series finale.
“A very minor but sad result of everything that’s happened in the pandemic.”

But all good things must come to an end a saying Glover thoroughly believes in.
I’ve been sick this year.
I’ve seen a bunch of people die this year.

This is the first time I’ve felt helpless."
It also had the buxom and oh-so-catty Edie Britt, played by Nicolette Sheridan.
Edie was the character everyone loved to hate.

I loved her dearly, but they killed her!
She’s dead."
To put it simply, Sheridan said no.

Even though Bonetleft the spinoffafter just one season when she became pregnant, she didn’t leave Denise.
Why did Bonet leave “The Cosby Show” a second time?
And, as Warner told People, she wasn’t invited to come back for the series finale.

Though fans were dismayed at her exit, Burton claims it was part of the plan all along.
“There really wasn’t a lot of turmoil,” she toldEntertainment Weeklyof her departure.
Perhaps because there actually was lots of turmoil, just behind the scenes.

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“We never really knew what happened to her,” Perkins told ET.
“She didn’t die; she wasn’t killed.

Personally, I think they should’ve pushed her off a cliff.
That would’ve been, like, a proper goodbye to Celia Hodes.
So she could be out there lurking somewhere that makes sense to me.”

If Celia was lurking, couldn’t she have made an appearance in the series finale?
She could have, but Perkins didn’t want her to.
I just felt like, no, Celia should die," the actress admitted toYahoo!

“It just seemed like Celia deserved a better send-off.”
“I’m very laid-back and passive.
But Doherty said no.
“There was nothing interesting and good, and it wasn’t true to the character.”
But for Farrell, Dax’s death wasn’t a surprise.
The actress wanted out of the show because of issues with co-creator and producer Rick Berman.
“In my opinion, he’s just very misogynistic.
As to why Farrell didn’t come back for the “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine finale?
According to an interview with Ira Steven Behr, an executive producer, it was because she said no.
Robert Reed, who played Mike Brady, was famous for being an iconic father.
Seems funny, right?
Rather than deal with Reed, the producers decided to write him out of the episode.