The actress, who plays special agent Grace Van Pelt, will leave the crime drama with co-star and screen spouse Owain Yeoman (Wayne Rigsby) after the current sixth season.
"I'm still filming. I'm getting ready for it. I'm anticipating life without The Mentalist, which is a mixed bag," she admitted.
"It's a little bittersweet. It was a long run, an unexpected long run, but a welcome one and the show's been great to me. There's a part of me that is sad to see it coming to a close."
The 30-year-old said she would miss her co-stars including Simon Baker, Robin Tunney and Tim Kang the most.
" You become like a family after six years," she said. " It's a long shoot - we shoot nine and a half months out of the year - and the days are long so you better be doing it with people that you like otherwise it can be really miserable."
Amanda, an original member of the cast since The Mentalist started in 2008, admitted that the show's writers have kept the cast in the dark over their exit storylines.
"They tell us but then it changes so you can't really trust what the writers tell you. Even the stuff they give us are very small and ambiguous," she said.
"They lie to us, absolutely! They'll say (one thing) and then they will change their minds and say, 'I think we're going to go a different direction this episode'."
SRC: independent.ie/
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