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"Paget Brewster has described her Criminal Minds exit as a &amp;quot;sour&amp;quot; experience. The actress was dropped from the CBS crime drama in 2010 and shot a comedy pilot for NBC, but was later made to return to Criminal Minds full-time for its seventh season as a year was still remaining on her contract. However, once her contract was up, Brewster quit her role as Emily Prentiss in February of this year.   &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not saying anything to denigrate Criminal Minds; that&amp;#039;s a great show,&amp;quot; she told TV Guide. &amp;quot;I just didn&amp;#039;t appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn&amp;#039;t in it and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.&amp;quot; Brewster added that being forced to return to the series following her initial departure &amp;quot;did sort of sour the experience&amp;quot; of her brief return. &amp;quot;I wasn&amp;#039;t going to dig in my heels and say, &amp;#039;Go ahead, sue me. I&amp;#039;m not going back. It&amp;#039;s a horrible place&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; she explained. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know if I would have left if that hadn&amp;#039;t happened, but it was heartbreaking.&amp;quot; However, the 43-year-old admitted that she does still miss being a part of the Criminal Minds cast, which recently welcomed new series regular Jeanne Tripplehorn. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not going to lie - I&amp;#039;m jealous of Jeanne Tripplehorn, which is ludicrous because I decided to leave,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;You hear, &amp;#039;Oh we&amp;#039;re doing this this week and these are our guest stars&amp;#039;, and there&amp;#039;s a little tinge of regret. But I don&amp;#039;t ultimately regret it.&amp;quot; Criminal Minds returns to CBS tonight at 9/8c. The series airs on Sky Living in the UK. &amp;gt; Mandy Patinkin regrets Criminal Minds: &amp;#039;That show was a big mistake&amp;#039; Watch a video recap of Criminal Minds&amp;#039;s seventh season below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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