Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has significantly less Sergeant Fin in its latest season, and Ice-T has revealed why.

The rapper-turned-actor said he initially wondered if he was being let go when he was first told he would appear in nearly half as many episodes as usual.

“It’s just basically business,” he told TMZ on Monday. The long-running Mariska Hargitay-headlining series, now in its 27th season, brought back Kelli Giddish as a series regular. Giddish played detective Amanda Rollins from Season 13 until she was written off the show in the 24th.

Ice-T, who’s played Fin on the series for 27 years, told the outlet that bringing back Giddish—which Hargitay campaigned for—came at a cost to his role. “They brought Kelli back. At the end of the day, they couldn’t keep both of us on bo

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