Audrina Patridge is preparing for her departure from The Hills.

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"I'm almost done with The Hills. We're in the middle of finishing these episodes, and I'll be leaving then," she told Us Weekly on Sunday.

New The Hills fifth-season episodes will begin airing September 29 on MTV, and they will include the addition of former Laguna Beach star Kristin Cavallari as well as Patridge's swan song. 

While Patridge has been a The Hills regular since it premiered in 2006, she will be starring is her own new reality series -- tentatively titled The Audrina Show -- which is currently in development at MTV and is being produced by Mark Burnett.

"It feels like I'm graduating," she told Us.  "I'm taking the next step and growing up and maturing and moving on in my life."

It's been a busy summer for Patridge -- who has been promoting the new horror movie Sorority Row, in which she has a starring role.

"I moved to Los Angeles to be an actress, and before I got onto The Hills, I was going to auditions and castings and working full-time at [film studios] Quixote Studios and Smashbox," she told Us.

Although she became a star thanks to her The Hills role, Patridge told Us being on a reality series made her "comfortable in front of the cameras."

"I feel like it's helped me a lot going to auditions and sitting in front of the camera... blocking the camera out and just getting into character," she added.

Patridge's new reality series is currently slated to premiere sometime next year.
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