Former Saturday Night Live castmember Melissa Villaseñor opened up this week about her decision to leave the show, and it doesn’t sound like it was an easy one. “It was my decision,” Villaseñor told The Daily Beast’s Last Laugh podcast.
She went on to explain the terms on which she departed in September. “I gave myself a lot of time in the summer to think on it and kind of play out in my head if I go back.
At the end of the day it was about my mental health. Last season, I had a couple of panic attacks. I think it was just…I was struggling.
I always felt like I was on the edge of a cliff every week. And I was like, I don’t want to be doing that to myself anymore.
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