Inside Reneé Rapp's 'Deeply Emotional' Last Day onSex Lives of College Girlsand Her 'Cathartic' Final Scene (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Warning: This post contains spoilers for season 3 ofThe Sex Lives of College Girls.

Reneé Rappis about to take her final bow as the iconic Leighton Murray.

On the Nov. 28 episode ofThe Sex Lives of College Girls, Rapp’s character will make her long-awaited exit. The departure comes more than a year afterRapp, 24, announced she would be stepping back from the seriesin July 2023. She said in aposton X (formerly Twitter) that the series “changed my life” as she revealed her exit.

Ahead of her final episode’s premiere, her costars Alyah Chanelle Scott and Amrit Kaur, as well as showrunner Justin Noble, caught up with PEOPLE to reflect on the “very emotional” exit.

Alyah Chanelle Scott, Reneé Rapp, Amrit Kaur and Pauline Chalamet in ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ season 3 (left); Reneé Rapp attends the 66th Grammy Awards Pre-Grammy Gala on Feb. 3, 2024.Tina Thorpe/Max; Amy Sussman/Getty

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Rob Huebel and Reneé Rapp in ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ season 3.Tina Thorpe/Max

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Deciding how Leighton would make her exit was up to Noble andMindy Kaling, who created the series together in 2021. He says that Rapp was always going to be in just two episodes of this season — and he and Kaling, 45, knew they had to do her character justice.

Amrit Kaur, Reneé Rapp in season 3 of ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’.Tina Thorpe/Max

“This is Leighton Murray. And Leighton Murray — she wins,” he says.

“We started talking about how she came into the series, and if you think about it, she came in kind of knowing herself the least. She was projecting a different personality than she probably truly felt, and over 22 episodes, we watched her become incredibly confident with who she genuinely is.”

Amrit Kaur, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Reneé Rapp, Pauline Chalamet in ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ season 3.Tina Thorpe/Max

Though the cast all went in knowing what was to come, watching them film their final scene was a “moment on set that I think I’ll just never forget, because it was real. It wasn’t even fiction after a while,” Noble says.

Alyah Chanelle Scott and Reneé Rapp in ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ season 3.Tina Thorpe/Max

Still, “that moment for the friend group is really important,” Scott says. “I think it makes us all realize that this time and this space isn’t forever… You can’t ever get fully comfortable. You just have to appreciate the time that you have with people and then appreciate when it’s over. And I think that playing that emotion was very cathartic and bittersweet.”

Alyah Chanelle Scott, Reneé Rapp, Amrit Kaur and Pauline Chalamet in ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ season 3.Tina Thorpe/Max

When asked if there’s a possibility Leighton might pop in again in the future, Noble confirms that the “chapter is closed” on Rapp’s character.

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New episodes ofThe Sex Lives of College Girlsseason 3 premiere Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on Max.

source: people.com