Its the end of an era.
But before she left,Shamelesshad a semi-surprise in store.
Also, read whatRossum told us about her departureand our fullrecap of the finale.
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It became public at that point.
But she struggled with it for a lot the season.
But we had awareness that she might, so we had a couple different contingency plans.
Shes their older sister, but she raised these kids.
So that interested me and the writing staff.
And you leave it open-ended, opting to not definitively say where shes going.
But the whole mystery of it came about because we were too long.
The episode ended up being about eight minutes long when I first got into the editing room.
So it will be revealed right at the top of the next season.
When the show wasrenewed for season 10, it was announced that Cameron would be back full-time.
And he said, Absolutely.
This is not an unusual situation, it happens with actors on long-running television shows.
What will his return mean for the show?
Truthfully, for his offense, youre not going to be kept in prison for very long.
And then we do what we call Shamelesstime.
I dont know, conjugal visits?
[Laughs] I dont know, we really havent considered it.
But then Debbie seems to be coming into that role.
And then we have Carl getting some emotionally juicy scenes in the finale.
And I think its also what happens in real families.
And Ill really miss Fiona because I loved writing for Fiona.
