Josh Radnor Says How I Met Your Mother Cast Isn’t Close: More Secrets

22. Even if you know how something’s gonna end, that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the ride. And Radnor was all in, despite being told early on that he would eventually lose the mother. 

“They had mentioned to me the twist about the mother in the first season, and I kind of put it out of my head,” he told Vulture after the 2014 finale. “I didn’t know if they would actually want to come back to it and do that, especially after Cristin, because she was so wonderful and the fans seemed to really take to her. So I asked them ‘Are you guys still doing that?’ And they said yeah.”

Meanwhile, Milioti was gift-wrapped that storyline at the cast and crew’s Christmas party. While chatting with Thomas, “He was like, ‘Do you want to know how it ends?'” she told reporters at the 2014 Summer TCA Press Tour. “And as complete joke I said, ‘What, do I die?’ And he was like, ‘Do you want to know?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I do.’ And he told me.”

The news didn’t exactly leave her feeling jolly. 

“I sat there sobbing,” she recounted. “He wrote me an e-mail the next day, being like, ‘I’m so sorry I told you that way, you seemed really upset.'”