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After 11 seasons connected Saturday Night Live, Cecily Strong took her last bow connected the Dec. 17 episode. Now, the prima is reflecting backmost connected wherefore she didn't marque an announcement until hours before.
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Cecily Strong did things her mode until the precise end.
On the Dec. 17 occurrence of Saturday Night Live, the comedian said goodbye to the storied sketch amusement aft 11 seasons.
Though rumored since the commencement of the season, Cecily's departure wasn't officially announced until hours earlier her last occurrence successful an Instagram station from the SNL account, which read: "Tonight we nonstop disconnected 1 of the champion to ever bash it. We'll miss you, Cecily!"
Now, Cecily has opened up astir wherefore she wanted to support her determination backstage until the past minute.
"I'm atrocious I've been a small quiescent astir it publicly," she wrote connected Instagram Dec. 19. "I didn't privation the other unit connected thing already truthful affectional for me."
Cecily wrote that her "heart was bursting" successful the overwhelming enactment pursuing her SNL swan song, but she assured fans that she knew her clip was up.
"I americium acceptable to go, but I'll ever cognize location is here," she continued. "I've had the clip of my beingness moving with the top radical connected earth."
Cecily gave a peculiar shout-out to "absolute benignant and generous dreamboat" Austin Butler, who hosted her last occurrence and helped nonstop her off with a mentation of Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas."
Many of Cecily's Saturday Night Live co-stars near their emotion successful her remark section, with Bowen Yang writing, "you are life-changing."
Heidi Gardner, Cecily's castmate since 2017, besides near a saccharine connection reading, "Cecily the undeniable champ. could bash thing tossed her way. ANYTHING. I've genuinely ne'er seen thing similar it. I emotion you truthful overmuch and convey you for being a large sister, a mentor, and a friend."
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In her last episode, Cecily besides said goodbye to Weekend Update with 1 past quality arsenic bull-headed, chain-smoking Cathy Anne, who announced she was headed to prison.
"I had a batch of amusive here," she said, "and I consciousness truly fortunate that I got to person truthful galore of the champion moments of my beingness successful this spot with these radical that I emotion truthful much. I conjecture instrumentality that with a atom of brackish being that I person addiction issues."
Cecily's mode until the precise end.
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