--- title: Cheryl Strayed Talks About the 'Wild' Gilmore Girls Reference description: Gilmore Girls firmly planted itself in contemporary pop culture with a reference to Cheryl Strayed's "Wild;" which the author weighed in on. canonical: https://time.com/4584293/cheryl-strayed-reese-witherspoon-react-to-gilmore-girls/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-28T23:27:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:59.208Z og:title: How Cheryl Strayed Felt About Her Gilmore Girls Moment og:description: Hint: There were tears og:url: https://time.com/4584293/cheryl-strayed-reese-witherspoon-react-to-gilmore-girls/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Cheryl Strayed Felt About Her Gilmore Girls Moment twitter:description: Hint: There were tears twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's What Cheryl Strayed and Reese Witherspoon Say About Their _Gilmore Girls_ Revival Moment > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 28, 2016 11:27 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 28, 2016 11:27 PM UTC Plenty of the [Gilmore Girls](http://time.com/4583691/gilmore-girls-netflix-more-episodes/)‘ fast-talking dialogue is chock full of [pop cultural references](http://time.com/4542402/gilmore-girls-trailer-netflix-revival/), name checking everything from [Dolly Parton](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4-H9QEkmRU) to the [Menendez brothers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd%5FqV7zpHu8). So naturally, when the show revival dropped on Netflix, fans were curious to see if the show would reference the cultural trends of the last decade. [_Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life_](http://time.com/4582661/gilmore-girls-ending-last-four-words/) more than delivered when it came to staying up on recent events in pop culture, invoking man buns, _Game of Thrones_, and Marie Kondo; however, one of Lorelai’s central plot lines centered on an especially poignant moment from entertainment: [Cheryl Strayed’s memoir-turned-movie, _Wild_](http://time.com/3620359/the-true-story-behind-wild/). The moment wasn’t lost on Strayed, who took to her Instagram to express her emotions after seeing _Wild_ referenced while watching the revival with her daughter. Actor Reese Witherspoon, who played Strayed in the film adaptation of _Wild_ also chimed in on Twitter about the film’s reference and the fact that Lorelai uses a tote from her personal clothing line. > [](https://twitter.com/RWitherspoon/status/802692378284859395) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4584293/cheryl-strayed-reese-witherspoon-react-to-gilmore-girls/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4584293/cheryl-strayed-reese-witherspoon-react-to-gilmore-girls/"},"headline":"Here's What Cheryl Strayed and Reese Witherspoon Say About Their Gilmore Girls Revival Moment","datePublished":"2016-11-28T23:27:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:59.208Z","description":"Hint: There were tears","url":"https://time.com/4584293/cheryl-strayed-reese-witherspoon-react-to-gilmore-girls/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Television","Reese Witherspoon","Culture","Gilmore Girls"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/4584293/cheryl-strayed-reese-witherspoon-react-to-gilmore-girls/","name":"Here's What Cheryl Strayed and Reese Witherspoon Say About Their Gilmore Girls Revival Moment"}}]}] ```