United Kingdom, June 30 -- Abby Elliott has described getting fired from Saturday Night Live was her "worst" fear come true.

The Bear star joined the comedy show in 2008, becoming its youngest ever female cast member at the age of 21, and she admitted there was a lot of pressure to write successful sketches, with the "looming threat" of being dropped constantly in her mind.

She told the Independent: "Every week was a new week, and your happiness would depend on whether you got something on air or not, and if three weeks went by without a sketch, you'd think, 'Uh-oh, am I going to be fired?'

"There was always that looming threat of getting fired. That was the worst that could happen. And then, I kind of did."

Abby had initially asked c...