‘The Bold Type’ fashions its final Freeform season

As it wraps up with a compressed fifth and final season, “The Bold Type” is going out the only way it knows how ... boldly.

Close friends Jane, Kat and Sutton (played respectively by Katie Stevens, Aisha Dee and Meghann Fahy) resume their adventures in and around the New York fashion scene Wednesday, May 26, on Freeform. In the first of the last six tales, Carson Kressley guest stars as Jane makes things tough for her magazine boss Jacqueline (Melora Hardin) again, Sutton tries to refocus from her failing marriage to a career opportunity, and Kat must choose between her personhood and outside forces.

“I don’t think it has hit me yet,” former “American Idol” contestant Stevens reflects of her “Bold” finish. “Through doing this show, I’ve made so many friends I know will last a lifetime. It’s just starting to reach new viewers in other countries, and it gives me comfort to know that the show is going to live on long after it’s done.”

With the still-young marriage of Fahy’s Sutton in limbo after husband Richard’s (Sam Page) move to the West Coast, “we pick up right where we left off” with that story, Fahy reports. “She is attempting to pick up the pieces after losing the love of her life.

“The ending we were planning on having changed the night before we shot it,” adds Fahy, “which was a huge thrill for all of us. Sam and I were really vocal about what we thought would be right for the characters, and we were really lucky that the writers listened to us.”

Jane’s stories on “The Bold Type” have involved not only the personal and the professional, but also the medical, given her double mastectomy. Adding to the many real-world topics connecting the series to its audience, Fahy reveals that Sutton enters therapy during the final episodes.

“She takes that brave step of going,” the actress says, “and I’m very excited that in one episode, we actually see her in a session. I’m a huge fan of therapy myself, and I love normalizing it in film and television ... to show somebody saying, ‘I think I need a little help figuring things out.’ And then doing it.”