While talking to Ian Spelling's syndicated Inside Trek and Sci Fi column, the actress carefully avoided giving specifics about the last episode of the series, instead saying, "Xena comes full circle. She was somebody who was afraid to love and trust another single human soul, and now she is somebody who's comfortable in her own skin, who has a family."

She adds, "I always thought the day Xena achieved redemption would be the end of the show, and make of that what you will. The finale is enormously ambitious - it's our most expensive episode. I'd also say it's the most defiant episode we've done."

Lawless also talks about departing the role that the whole world sat up and noticed, saying, "The first two weeks after the show finished filming, I was learning to live as Lucy, trying to figure out who Lucy would be without Xena, without the schedule, without being in New Zealand and without the responsibility of turning up to work every day. Eventually, I stopped struggling to be just Lucy without Xena, because it has become so much a part of the fabric that makes up me that it was a relief to realize I didn't have to disassociate from it."

She adds, "I don't have the pathological need to cut off all my hair and dye what's left blond, But on the inside I was looking to reidentify myself as somebody without Xena. And I just don't think that's possible...Why should I? It was a wonderful time in my life."

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