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In a caller interview, Melissa Villaseñor opened up astir her exit from Saturday Night Live aft its 47th season. Find retired wherefore she left
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Melissa Villaseñor near Saturday Night Live connected her ain terms.
In September, it was announced that the comedian—who joined SNL in as a featured subordinate successful 2016 earlier being upgraded to main formed subordinate successful 2018—was leaving the famed sketch show.
At the time, it was not wide if Villaseñor had been fired oregon if she had made the choice herself. Now, she's mounting the grounds straight.
"It was my decision," she told The Daily Beast Oct. 25. "I gave myself a batch of clip successful the summertime to deliberation connected it and benignant of play retired successful my head. At the extremity of the day, it was astir my intelligence health. Last season, I had a mates of panic attacks."
The histrion continued, "I was struggling. I ever felt similar I was connected the borderline of a cliff each week. And I was like, 'I don't privation to beryllium doing that to myself anymore.'"
Villaseñor, who became champion known for her uncanny impressions of celebrities similar Dolly Parton and Dua Lipa, was speedy to admit that her departure wasn't the responsibility of anybody progressive with SNL.
"It's not similar the amusement was mean towards maine oregon anyone," she explained. "It was conscionable however I grip things. I'm an introvert. When I'm successful a large radical of a batch of astonishing people, and everyone's speaking implicit everyone else, I thin to get small. I get nervous, like, 'Where bash I fit? What americium I expected to do?' That's however I was successful precocious school, too. I deliberation that's what caused it."
Still, Villaseñor admitted the determination "was ace hard" and she'll ever person emotion and appreciation for Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels.
"I shared with them that this was my kid dream," the 35-year-old said. "This is each I wanted arsenic a kid. So I'm going to transportation that everlastingly successful my heart, that I got to acquisition that successful my life."
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While Villaseñor feels it'll beryllium "a small tough" watching the caller season, which premiered Oct. 1 with a hugely revamped cast, saying, "It is simply a small tough, I'm not gonna lie, it is simply a small tough," she's made a constituent to marque the astir of her caller schedule.
"I astir consciousness reborn oregon something, due to the fact that I person each this escaped time," she said. "I'm enrolling successful classes, astir similar a small kid. I'm taking guitar lessons and Spanish lessons. I signed up for a pottery class!"
Saturday Night Live airs Saturdays astatine 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT connected NBC.
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