“Once Upon A Time” Star Jennifer Morrison Quits Show After Season 6, Reveals Cast And Crew Reaction To Emma Swan Exit

Emma Swan will no longer be in Storybrook next season.

This was confirmed by the actress herself, Jennifer Morrison, who played the sword-wielding heroine, early this week, to the shock of “Once Upon A Time” fans everywhere. According to her, her decision is a personal one, and that a break would be something she’d look forward to.

Deadline said the actress had declined the invitation to return from series creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, and had chosen to leave the series at the end of her current contract.

“I spent six years year on “House”, a year on “How I Met Your Mother” and spent 6 years on “Once Upon a Time”, and collectively that’s 13 years of network schedule, which is an amazing and incredible gift but it’s a grueling schedule. I’ve been transitioning into doing more directing, I’ve had some opportunities that I’ve passed up along the years in order to fulfill these network schedules, and I really had to weigh where I was in my life. I’m just at an age and a time in my life where I want to be home, I want to be with my family and my friends, to have a chance to have a personal life for a while, and also wanted to be available to do other creative things.”

She also shared the cast and crew’s reaction to her impending exit, telling Entertainment Weekly, “Obviously, it’s bittersweet on both sides. We all love each other. I love Adam and Eddy, and I love everyone on the show, so it’s tough. But it’s also a family. We’ve become a family. We’ve worked so closely with each other over the last six years that you really do become a family, and you know each other very, very well.”

However, Morrison said fans will definitely see her one more time to help wrap her character’s storyline. It is not made known as to how the show will wrap Morrison’s character.