The revival concludes with Alexis Bledel's Rory informing her mother, played by Graham, that she is pregnant. Lauren Graham defends polarizing Gilmore Girls rev

The revival concludes with Alexis Bledel's Rory informing her mother, played by Graham, that she is pregnant.

Lauren Graham defends polarizing Gilmore Girls revival finale: 'I don't exactly understand why'

The revival concludes with Alexis Bledel's Rory informing her mother, played by Graham, that she is pregnant.

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Lauren Graham addressed the mixed reaction to the finale of Netflix's four-part *Gilmore Girls *revival, *A Year in the Life.*

Speaking with *Variety *ahead of her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on Friday, Graham acknowledged that the finale was polarizing but noted that she did not "exactly understand why."

"I was having the time of my life," Graham said of working on the revival. "I was on clouds every single day at work, and I felt like the work was really good and the episodes were really beautiful."

*Gilmore Girls* creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and husband Daniel revived their hit mother-daughter dramedy in 2016, continuing the story of the Gilmore women, led by matriarch and widow Emily (Kelly Bishop), and chronicling the family's grief following the death of patriarch Richard, played by Edward Herrmann.

Herrmann died in December 2014 from brain cancer at the age of 71.**

The finale ended with the revelation that Graham's onscreen daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel) was pregnant with her first child, using the infamous four-word closing line that Sherman-Palladino had always intended to use before departing the original show in 2006 ahead of its seventh and final season due to a contractual dispute: "Mom?" "Yeah?" "I'm pregnant."**

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The father of Rory's baby is never explicitly disclosed, though it's largely believed to be her college love Logan Huntzberger (played by Matt Czuchry), with whom she has an affair in the revival.**

Kelly Bishop, Amy Sherman-Palladino, and Daniel Palladino attend Lauren Graham's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.

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In attendance at Graham's star ceremony on Friday morning were the Palladinos, Bishop, and Czuchry, as well as Scott Patterson and Yanic Truesdale. Sherman-Palladino delivered remarks before Graham was presented with her star.

"You never know when somebody's going to come into your life and are going to be important and mean something," Sherman-Palladino said. "And Lauren Graham changed my entire life . . . I owe you everything but more than that, you are everything to me."**

Yanic Truesdale and Matt Czuchry attend Lauren Graham's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.

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When Graham took the podium to deliver her own speech, she thanked everyone from her agents to her former castmates, even joking about the fact that Czuchry was the only one of Rory's boyfriends in attendance. "I've gotten to work with so many incredible people, and I never pick a team, but I do gotta say, Czuchry is here," Graham said, noting the absence of Milo Ventimiglia (who played Jess Mariano) and Jared Padalecki (who played Dean Forester).

"Ventimiglia? No. Padalecki?" she said, shaking her head. "Points for Logan. Just points, just points! It's an ongoing system. It isn't done yet."

Watch the rest of Graham's ceremony above.**

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