Greta Lee insists "it was time to go" after leaving The Morning Show

Confirming her departure - which has come midway through the fourth season - she told The Hollywood Reporter: "This is the first time I'm saying it out loud but yeah, this is the end. This is goodbye."

Greta admitted the move was "shocking", but explained that her own hectic schedule played into the exit, which was a mutual decision with showrunner Charlotte Stoudt.

She said: "It was time to go, really. I wish I could split up into different people and just keep doing everything, but that would be physically impossible."

Greta explained that there "were a lot of factors" surrounding the departure, while in an ideal would she would "have loved to have stayed on indefinitely".

She added: "This is like family to me. I moved to L.A. because of this show a few years ago from New York.

"I had my babies while doing the show and so much has happened. But it got to the point where it just wasn't possible.

"These shows are such a commitment. We kept trying and it just got harder and harder, scheduling-wise, to be there, and to be able to hand over my resources and time to keep being on the show."

Her own work schedule got busier, as she had been working on Tron: Ares, A House of Dynamite and Late Fame.

She said: "The writers came back with this storyline and it's so bittersweet, but I also feel this was the end.

"Sometimes it's that hard thing where it's time. It's time for a character to move on."