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Kelli Giddish, who made her last appearance as Det. Amanda Rollins on 'Law & Order: SVU' on Dec. 8, is leaving the door open to a possible return.

Epatha [Merkerson] is on “ [Chicago Med](http://variety.com/t/chicago-med).” These these characters are so beloved and so well-defined, because you get to see them day in and day out. And she’s now married to Carisi, who is still part of the show. The door is un-shut. It’s so much fun, there’s so much laughter and there were so many tears. The wedding was so exciting. My side of things is just that it’s time in the Rollins storyline. I am so excited about things going on in my personal life and kind of the mirroring of what’s going on in my personal life and in Rollins’, there’s a lot of joy to be experienced. Nothing is set in stone, and if you want to try something, the writers are right there because they trust Mariska and I to kind of fine-tune the words of the script. The actor made [her final appearance](https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/kelli-giddish-leaves-law-and-order-svu-rollins-quits-1235381341/) on “Law & Order: SVU” on Thursday night, with her character marrying Carisi (Peter Scanavino) and choosing to leave the squad for a teaching gig. Everyone was pretty shocked to hear that you were leaving. I got to do the gambit. With playing someone as multi-faceted as Rollins, I got to play all kinds of different things — down and out, on top, joyful, doubtful, scared, triumphant.

The actress bid farewell to the NBC procedural this week in an episode that saw her character Amanda Rollins marrying Sonny (Peter Scanavino) before leaving to ...

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Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Dec. 8 episode of Law & Order: SVU. In the end, Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish) got a happy ending.

And then I had to race across town because I was in the The Good Wife and I had to go do a fitting for them. I think it made for a beautiful scene for the audience to get to be a part of. So they said cut, I got to say thank you and bye to the crew, and then I left and raced home because it was Halloween to go trick-or-treating with my kid. I think the door's open, sure. I do, because I had finished up a movie with Gina Carano where, I think, she kills me, and so I had fake blood in my hair and it's kind of hard to get out. It was the one where he's like, "You haven't talked to Olivia, have you?" So I was like, "Please let this be over." I was so happy for the fans. So it does feel different today. We did the scene in the bed, with my daughters, and then we moved to his office for two scenes. She's a mom and she's got all this awesome stuff happening around her. In the end, the team applauded her as she walked out.