--- title: Gilmore Girls: Lauren Graham Debunks Coffee Rumors description: Lauren Graham set the Gilmore Girls coffee rumors straight on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert canonical: https://time.com/4588778/lauren-graham-gilmore-girls-coffee-colbert/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-02T16:17:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:08.447Z og:title: Lauren Graham Sets Those 'Gilmore Girls' Coffee Rumors Straight og:description: This is what's in her coffee cup og:url: https://time.com/4588778/lauren-graham-gilmore-girls-coffee-colbert/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18c79ba688e376cc/6988b06897cdff8d8f6aec19/lauren-graham.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Premiere Of Netflix's "Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life" - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lauren Graham Sets Those 'Gilmore Girls' Coffee Rumors Straight twitter:description: This is what's in her coffee cup twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18c79ba688e376cc/6988b06897cdff8d8f6aec19/lauren-graham.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lauren Graham Sets Those _Gilmore Girls_ Coffee Rumors Straight > Sponsored content. 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Not only did Graham admit that the idyllic and quirky town of Stars Hollow is located “halfway between New Haven and our imagination” (meaning that you can’t actually move there), but she also debunked a major rumor circling the internet about [Rory and Lorelai Gilmores](http://time.com/4583691/gilmore-girls-netflix-more-episodes/?iid=sr-link2)’ coffee cups. Some fans seem to believe that the coffee-chugging Rory (Alexis Bledel) and Lorelai (Graham) were toting empty cups around the [_Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life_](http://time.com/4584239/gilmore-girls-logan-rory/?iid=sr-link4) set and have been commenting about it online. Graham set the record straight, because it’s a pet peeve of hers: “There is always [coffee in my cup](http://time.com/4526406/gilmore-girls-quiz-facts-trivia/?iid=sr-link5),” she said. “That sounds like a metaphor,” Colbert replied with a laugh. Now that the coffee cup situation is settled, Graham would like you to watch [_Gilmore Girls_](http://time.com/4510031/gilmore-girls-revival-news/?iid=sr-link1)_,_ as long as it’s “on something bigger than a Pop-Tart.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4588778/lauren-graham-gilmore-girls-coffee-colbert/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4588778/lauren-graham-gilmore-girls-coffee-colbert/"},"headline":"Lauren Graham Sets Those Gilmore Girls Coffee Rumors Straight","datePublished":"2016-12-02T16:17:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:08.447Z","description":"This is what's in her coffee cup","url":"https://time.com/4588778/lauren-graham-gilmore-girls-coffee-colbert/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Netflix","Coffee","stephen colbert","Gilmore Girls","late show with stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18c79ba688e376cc/6988b06897cdff8d8f6aec19/lauren-graham.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt18c79ba688e376cc/6988b06897cdff8d8f6aec19/lauren-graham.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of Netflix's \"Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life\" - Arrivals","caption":"Premiere Of Netflix's \"Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life\" - Arrivals","creditText":"","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/4588778/lauren-graham-gilmore-girls-coffee-colbert/","name":"Lauren Graham Sets Those Gilmore Girls Coffee Rumors Straight"}}]}] ```