The news came last week that long-time Law and Order: Special Victims Unit actress Kelli Giddish will leave the show after its upcoming 24th season—but not by her choice.

Giddish joined the series after Christopher Meloni left at the end of the 12th season (he has recently returned and got a spinoff series—Organized Crime) and has since been, at times, the only other female detective in the room alongside Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson. Her character, Amanda Rollins, has been rough at times, and there have been moments when I’ve wondered how she, of all people, was working in the Special Victims department. Despite all of that, she has been a core part of the rotating cast and had been, until now, the longest-lasting member after Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson and Ice-T’s Odafin Tutuola.