Mandy Moore Tells Jimmy Fallon She Threw Up After Reading Next Week’s ‘This Is Us’ Script

This Is Us, which is in its final season on NBC, has had the uncanny ability to wring tears out of even the most hardened audience members over the course of its six seasons. And now that there are only two episodes left to go in the show, there will most definitely be laughter, tears and, if you’re Mandy Moore, some vomit. The actress, who plays matriarch Rebecca Pearson on the show, visited The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night (May 10) and explained that she became physically sick after reading the script for the second to last episode, which airs on May 17.

“I will tell you that the penultimate episode, which airs in, like, a week, I threw up after I read it. And maybe that’s just because it’s really close to the bone for me. Like, this has been my life for the last six years and it’s, like, I simultaneously have to say goodbye to the character, to my family and friends on set, and this character’s also coincidentally saying goodbye as well, so there’s a lot wrapped up in it. But I still think that, like, you might need a day off from work.”

Moore’s character, in the present day timeline, is ailing and her three children, played by Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, and Justin Hartley, have to decide how to care for her at the end of her life. In the penultimate episode, they prepare to say goodbye to her for good. As if this show wasn’t already emotional enough under normal circumstances, Rebecca’s death definitely seems like a reason to throw up.

Moore says the series finale hopefully won’t evoke such a visceral reaction though. “The finale is a bit more of a hug,” she says. “I think there’s a little bit more levity. Yeah, the second to last destroyed me. I have a feeling it might destroy people too.”