is gearing up for her 24th season of , but it’ll be a bittersweet one as she prepares to say goodbye to co-star .

Giddish  from the NBC procedural in August, confirming that she would be leaving as a full-time cast member during the upcoming season. The actress joined “SVU” as Detective Amanda Rollins at the start of season 13 alongside Danny Pino following Chris Meloni’s unexpected departure at the end of season 12.

Giddish departs following a 12-season run.

ET spoke with Hargitay on the “Law & Order” carpet in New York on Monday, where she spoke about Giddish’s departure from the show.

“Oh god, Kelli. I love Kelli, she’s my girl,” Hargitay, who is also an executive producer on ‘SVU’, told ET’s Rachel Smith. “She is one of my favourite actors that I’ve ever worked with and we got to build something really beautiful together and really earned together because our characters had quite a journey.

It wasn’t so easy at the beginning and then we just fell into this beautiful safety, trust.”

“That was a hard one. I will miss that because she was my go-to, my right hand, the woman that I could talk to,” she said.

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