Last week’s “Scandal” season finale was very good for heroine Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), who ended up kissing the president to the tune of “Here Comes the Sun,” and very bad for the first lady Mellie Grant (Bellamy Young), who got kicked out of the White House.

Despite what has just happened to her character, Young, who confesses to knowing “not one thing” about what’s in store for the political drama in Season 5, is optimistic about President Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn) and Mellie sticking it out as couple.

In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the 45-year-old actress said, “I know Mellie loves him, to her own detriment.”

The way Young sees it, there exists the real possibility that the actual reality of Fritz’s dream to be with Olivia will somehow be a let down that will bring him back to his wife.

“I think that's probably what Mellie has to hope for in her heart of hearts: that it won't be what he hoped with Olivia, when she's not a taboo sort of ‘catch me now or never’ sort of fantasy,” she says. “In Mellie's mind, she did everything for him and her hope is that he'll remember that and will be loyal.”

Mellie has suffered much this last season, and Young believes that all this is leading to a state of powerful self-reliance, saying, “I don't think that she can even hope that she will get back in the White House as first lady, so I think what she has to double down on is her own ability and her own belief in herself and her own road and let good living, although it may not be clean, be what wins in the end.”

Things are changing up and intensifying for the female cast of "Scandal" on all levels.

As reported by Variety, Portia de Rossi’s character Elizabeth North will be acting as the White House Chief of Staff in the coming season, which starts up in the fall on ABC.