--- title: Parenthood Actress Lauren Graham on Gilmore Girls Being Cancelled description: Eight years later, the actress reflects on the upsetting and abrupt news canonical: https://time.com/3676639/lauren-graham-gilmore-girls-parenthood/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-21T17:55:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:08.862Z og:title: Watch Lauren Graham Explain How She Found Out 'Gilmore Girls' Was Cancelled og:description: Eight years later, the actress reflects on the upsetting and abrupt news og:url: https://time.com/3676639/lauren-graham-gilmore-girls-parenthood/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17df7f6a1fb98b02/69877b0206f2c10287333844/461852196.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 461852196 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Lauren Graham Explain How She Found Out 'Gilmore Girls' Was Cancelled twitter:description: Eight years later, the actress reflects on the upsetting and abrupt news twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17df7f6a1fb98b02/69877b0206f2c10287333844/461852196.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Lauren Graham Explain How She Found Out _Gilmore Girls_ Was Cancelled > Sponsored content. 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Lauren Graham, who stars as single mom Sarah Braverman, is of course [emotional about the show’s ending](http://time.com/3660359/lauren-graham-parenthood-series-finale/) — but she’s at least had a chance to say a proper goodbye, because the cast and crew knew in advance the sixth season would be the last. And as Graham explained to Seth Meyers on Monday’s episode of _Late Night_, she wasn’t so lucky with her previous show, _Gilmore Girls_. “It’s really difficult but also really nice to be able to say goodbye,” Graham said about shooting the final scenes of _Parenthood._ “I’ve mainly been on shows where they just yank it and you find out later.” Watch above as she reflects on the exact moment when she learned the beloved _Gilmore Girls_ was no more. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3676639/lauren-graham-gilmore-girls-parenthood/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3676639/lauren-graham-gilmore-girls-parenthood/"},"headline":"Watch Lauren Graham Explain How She Found Out Gilmore Girls Was Cancelled","datePublished":"2015-01-21T17:55:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:08.862Z","description":"Eight years later, the actress reflects on the upsetting and abrupt news","url":"https://time.com/3676639/lauren-graham-gilmore-girls-parenthood/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17df7f6a1fb98b02/69877b0206f2c10287333844/461852196.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17df7f6a1fb98b02/69877b0206f2c10287333844/461852196.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"461852196","caption":"LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS -- Episode 0153 -- Pictured: Actress Lauren Graham during an interview on January 20, 2015 -- (Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank)","creditText":"NBC—2015 NBCUniversal Media, LLC","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3676639/lauren-graham-gilmore-girls-parenthood/","name":"Watch Lauren Graham Explain How She Found Out Gilmore Girls Was Cancelled"}}]}] ```