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Enter Cash (Jessy Schram), the grown woman inexplicably invested in indulging Maddie's teenage fantasies (and mood swings) who has encouraged her to legally separate from her family. Legal emancipation is seriously NBD, it could just potentially lead to a permanent rift in the Conrad family—but Maddie gets to be a professional singer like a year or two earlier than her mom would've allowed, so apparently it's all worth it!

Well, frustrated viewers, the actress herself (who is a lovely, talented artist and definitely not the problem with Maddie's silly storyline) has a few words that may encourage you.

"Maddie, she's been testing her limits and boundaries. So I think she's going to keep doing that for a little bit," she told E! News' Erin Lim on the red carpet at the Radio Disney Music Awards. Sigh. Okay.

"But then she gets better," added the actress.

Hear that? There's an end in sight, people. There is a light at the end of the tunnel!

Nashville airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on ABC.