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A New Beginning: AJ Cook's Departure and the Family Secrets That Shaped It 👨‍👩‍👧
2025/04/15 Report

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Hey fellow Criminal Minds profilers! Bella here. Like many of you, the BAU has felt like a second home for years, and Jennifer "JJ" Jareau was always one of the steady heartbeats of the team. That's why the news back around Season 6 – that AJ Cook's contract wasn't being picked up – hit us fans like a ton of bricks.


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The official lines often vaguely mentioned "creative reasons" or budget cuts by the network, but I always felt there had to be more to the story. AJ Cook has always struck me as fiercely private, someone who guards her personal life, which got me thinking: how much did her real life influence that shocking departure?

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