“Sex Lives of College Girls”' Alyah Chanelle Scott Tears Up Over 'Rare' Friendship with Reneé Rapp (Exclusive)

Rapp told PEOPLE in 2022 that the "best part" of the show was "having Alyah become my best friend," and Scott became emotional after hearing the sweet sentiment

Reneé Rapp might have bid farewell to The Sex Lives of College Girls, but there's no saying goodbye to the bond she's formed with her costar Alyah Chanelle Scott.

Ahead of Rapp's final episode of the Max comedy series, which premiered Nov. 28, Scott, 27, caught up with PEOPLE about the show's long-awaited third season and became emotional as she reflected on the profound bond she and Rapp, 24, have formed since meeting on the show in 2021.

After hearing how Rapp described their friendship to PEOPLE in 2022 — "The best part of this job was having Alyah become my best friend" — Scott teared up before sharing her own thoughts on their bond.

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"I mean, there are no words. It's just, like, to go through an experience with someone who's a stranger to you, who quickly becomes one of the most important people in your life is so rare and so special," she says.

"I am forever grateful that we've had this experience on this show to start a friendship," she continues. "What an insane start to a friendship. And we're bonded forever in this weird, wacky way. But we've had this experience that no one has ever had — this specific experience at least."

After wiping away her tears, Scott jokes that when she and Rapp were promoting season 2, "We couldn't do a single interview without crying."

"It was very Ariana [Grande] and Cynthia [Erivo] — very theater kid of us — to be like, 'We just love each other so much.' But it's the truth," she says, comparing their emotions to the interviews that have gone viral of Grande and Erivo promoting Wicked.

Tina Thorpe/Max Alyah Chanelle Scott and Reneé Rapp in 'The Sex Lives of College Girls' season 3

Tina Thorpe/Max

Alyah Chanelle Scott and Reneé Rapp in 'The Sex Lives of College Girls' season 3

"There's something about doing this work that is so revealing and you show up every day in whatever state you are in, whatever's going on in your personal life. [You] show up and you work and you hold each other through it and no one else really knows what's going on, but you do. And there's just something so specific about being held by someone in that space that leads you to cry in every interview that you do."

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Tina Thorpe/Max Alyah Chanelle Scott, Reneé Rapp, Amrit Kaur and Pauline Chalamet in 'The Sex Lives of College Girls' season 3

Tina Thorpe/Max

Alyah Chanelle Scott, Reneé Rapp, Amrit Kaur and Pauline Chalamet in 'The Sex Lives of College Girls' season 3

Due to the tight bond they've formed outside the show, saying goodbye to Rapp on her final day on set wasn't quite as hard as it otherwise would have been for Scott.

"That one was a little tougher for me because as sad as I was to say goodbye to her, it never felt like I was actually saying goodbye because we literally live three minutes away from each other, so I was like, 'I'm crying because you're not going to be at work, I guess, but I'll see you at home,'" she recalls.

Christopher Polk/Penske Media/Getty  Alyah Chanelle Scott and Renee Rapp attend the Interscope Coachella Party held on April 15, 2023

Christopher Polk/Penske Media/Getty

Alyah Chanelle Scott and Renee Rapp attend the Interscope Coachella Party held on April 15, 2023

Still, the actress who plays Whitney in the series, says that the goodbye scene is "really important" for her character and Bela (Amrit Kaur) and Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet).

"I think it makes us all realize that this time and this space isn't forever... And I think that playing that emotion was very cathartic and bittersweet."

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New episodes of The Sex Lives of College Girls premiere Thursdays on Max.