The Saturday Night Live star left the sketch show after seven seasons<\/p>\n
\n\tFour days after Chloe Fineman<\/a> announced<\/a> that she would not be returning for Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u2018s 52nd season, the star opened up about her \u201cbittersweet\u201d exit from the long-running sketch show.<\/p>\n \n\tWhen speaking to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> on the red carpet for\u00a0<\/a>The Dink, which she co-stars in, Fineman said that she\u2019s \u201creally proud of everything, but it\u2019s hard.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m genuinely really good friends with everybody and I genuinely couldn\u2019t love that job more,\u201d she said, sharing that her former SNL cast member Colin Jost called her earlier since it was her birthday and she \u201cfully cried.\u201d Fineman said, \u201ceveryone\u2019s like really reaching out. It\u2019s the sweetest show. It\u2019s a hard show, but the people \u2014 it\u2019s because of hours and everything. But like it really is a family, and I\u2019ve been crying like sweet tears.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tFineman joined SNL as a featured cast member for the 2019\/20 season. Outside of\u00a0the show, Fineman has flexed her voice acting skills on\u00a0Big Mouth\u00a0and\u00a0The Simpsons\u00a0and featured on TV series and in movies. Her credits include\u00a0Laid,\u00a0Megalopolis,\u00a0Search Party, and\u00a0Freakier Friday, among others.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to leave\u00a0SNL<\/a>\u00a0but it does feel like the right time,\u201d Fineman wrote in\u00a0Instagram<\/a> post confirming her exit last week. \u201cI\u2019m going to miss it a lot. But the people who work there are my family and that place is my home, and I know I\u2019ll never be too far away.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tIn her latest feature, The Dink, Fineman stars alongside Jake Johnson and Ben Stiller. The comedy follows a former tennis pro who tries to revive a club by playing pickleball.<\/p>\n \t