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REPORTJerrika Hinton Is Leaving ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ After Season 13

Don’t go, Jerrika Hinton!

According to TV Line, the actress is leaving Grey’s Anatomy once Season 13 ends. Jerrika has portrayed Stephanie Edwards on the hit medical drama since 2012. Rumors of the 35-year-old’s exit came shortly after she was cast in an upcoming Alan Ball HBO drama.

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Jerrika on Grey’s Anatomy.

The last person to leave Grey’s was Sara Ramirez last year, who played Dr. Callie Torres for 10 seasons. Shortly before that, Patrick Dempsey — aka Dr. Derek Sheperd — was sadly killed off the show after 10 years in the role. Despite many stars leaving the show over the years, they still have a way of keeping their viewers coming back for more.

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Though Season 14 of the series has not yet been confirmed, as previously reported, ABC Chief Channing Dungey revealed she’s optimistic Grey’s will produce many, many more episodes in the future. She additionally confessed she’d love to beat out their rival series, ER, which previously ran for 15 seasons.

“That’d be lovely,” Dungey said of hitting that milestone. “I’ll take even more! Honestly, I think that the show is going to continue as long as [the show’s writer Shonda Rhimes] and the gang have a creative passion for telling those stories. At the moment, it feels like we’re full steam ahead.”

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“What Shonda and the team at Grey’s have really been able to do over time is continue to bring in new characters that give the series additional life and energy while remaining true to the core cast of characters,” Dungey continued. “When I’ve been looking at the fan feedback and reaction from this season, people are more interested than ever in the relationship between Meredith and Alex [Justin Chambers], and these are two characters that have been around since Season 1. But we’re now experiencing them in a totally different way than we have before. That’s just what the writers do so well; they continually peel back new layers of these characters that we get to expand and explore.”

Here’s to many more seasons of Grey’s Anatomy, with or without Jerrika!

Click through the gallery below to see the cast of Grey’s Anatomy then and now!