'The Sopranos' star Lorraine Bracco reveals she was upset over her character's 'rough' ending: 'I would have liked for it to have been more meaningful'

• Lorraine Bracco said her character's departure from "The Sopranos" was "rough" and "abrupt."
• Bracco played Tony Soprano's therapist Dr. Melfi on the HBO drama, which ran for six seasons.

Lorraine Bracco said her character's departure from "The Sopranos" was "rushed" and "abrupt" on a new episode of "Talking Sopranos" with Steve Schirripa and Michael Imperioli.

"I would have liked for it to have been more meaningful," Bracco said of her character Dr. Melfi's exit in season six. The actress also told Schirripa and Imperioli that she felt "Sopranos" creator David Chase wanted Melfi to "get rid of" Tony Soprano.

Dr. Melfi is last seen in the penultimate episode (titled "The Blue Comet") of the HBO drama, where she informs Tony (James Gandolfini) that she'll no longer be treating him. Melfi's tough decision comes after she's berated by colleagues at a dinner party for continuing to treat Tony, despite signs that he's a sociopath.

"I mean, I think she cared for Tony," Bracco said of her character. "Even though he was a fuck-up and maybe he was never going to really straighten out… I think she really cared for him."

"You don't spend seven years with someone and discard them. I felt bad about that," the actress added.

Schirripa and Imperioli, who played Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri and Christopher Moltisanti, respectively, on "The Sopranos," also recently published an oral history of the critically-acclaimed drama.

In "Woke Up This Morning," the two actors reveal numerous behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the show, including that star Gandolfini once got an anonymous late-night phone call that later inspired a line on "The Sopranos."