Whitney Leavitt is leaving 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' after Season 5 wraps

Whitney Leavitt is leaving “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.”

The world prima announced the quality during her last show of “Chicago” connected Sunday. Leavitt has played tap-dancing murderess Roxie Hart successful the Broadway revival since February. TMZ published a video of the moment, successful which a Broadway castmate shows Leavitt a paper mid-scene. Leavitt, successful quality arsenic Hart, points to the header and reads aloud: “Whitney Leavitt announces she’s leaving ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.’” The assemblage is heard hollering and cheering.

Leavitt followed the large uncover with an Instagram video Tuesday greeting and assured fans that, though the forthcoming play volition beryllium her last, she would inactive look successful Season 5 of the Hulu series.

“It’s honestly truthful brainsick to maine looking backmost connected this journey, due to the fact that I had been trying to get into theater, film, mode earlier ‘Secret Lives’ adjacent came into my life,” she said. “The world amusement conscionable fell into my thigh organically and I said yes to it. It’s decidedly not the way that I had envisioned successful my caput to get to wherever I americium today, but I wouldn’t alteration a thing. I person experienced truthful overmuch with this radical of women, and done that process, I person besides learned truthful overmuch astir myself.”

Leavitt continued, saying that the “Mormon Wives” had been done truthful overmuch together, including much utmost highs and lows than audiences person seen. “No substance what happens with our relationships, that is thing that volition ever beryllium a portion of our life, that volition ever beryllium a portion of my life, and I wouldn’t alteration a thing.”

“The times I’ve walked distant from ‘MomTok,’ it came from a spot of choler and frustration,” she continued. “But this time, it’s importantly different, due to the fact that I’m leaving with gratitude. I consciousness content. I consciousness similar this is simply a section that’s closing successful my life, and honestly, I judge that’s however it was ever meant to be. I’m truthful grateful for ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.’ It’s gotten maine wherever I americium today. It’s fixed maine the opportunities that you each person seen. But I’m ready. I’m acceptable for the adjacent chapter. And I cannot hold to stock with you guys what’s next.”

Much similar her “Chicago” character, Leavitt’s spot successful the spotlight has travel with less-than-favorable tabloid fodder. She told “Oprah Daily” that, though she doesn’t afloat hold that she’s a bid “villain,” she’s embraced her on-screen persona. She’s been candid astir being a “very ambitious woman” and utilizing “Secret Lives” arsenic a launchpad for a vocation successful Hollywood — and this isn’t the archetypal clip she’s departed the show.

“I had walked distant from the show,” she told Gayle King astir her little hiatus aft Season 2. “I wasn’t enjoying it anymore. I near the show, and past they were astir midway done the season, and I got a telephone from the producers, and they said, ‘If you travel back, we cognize that you truly privation this accidental to spell connected “Dancing With the Stars,” but the lone mode that you would get this accidental is to travel backmost and film.’”

Last year, Leavitt partnered up with pro dancer Mark Ballas and competed connected Season 34 of “Dancing With the Stars.” She was eliminated successful the semifinals, finishing successful sixth place, but her “Cell Block Tango” show impressed casting directors of the long-running Broadway production. One happening led to another, and the world prima was headed to Broadway.

Although Salt Lake City whitethorn not beryllium known for the excitement synonymous with the Big Apple, Leavitt has plentifulness of play to support her engaged backmost successful accumulation connected “Mormon Wives.”

The amusement deed intermission successful March amid a bid of home unit investigations involving stars Taylor Frankie Paul and her on-again, off-again spouse Dakota Mortensen. The Salt Lake County territory attorney’s bureau announced successful mid-April that it would not beryllium filing charges against Paul, and soon after, the Hulu bid said it would resume filming Season 5.

In the comments conception of Leavitt’s Instagram video announcing her departure, Paul wrote, “You volition beryllium missed. Chase those dreams my girl. I’m excited to spot your adjacent chapter.”