Was Lauren Graham referencing her ex-boyfriend Peter Krause when discussing Parenthood in a recent interview?
Graham, 58, had a pretty honest answer when asked about her relationships with the Parenthood cast during an episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, released on Wednesday, April 2.
“Well, I mean, varied,” the actress admitted. “Predominantly, it was the most easy filming experience which — [you] bond to some degree no matter what — but when something’s easy and you just have a lot of time to sit around and chit chat, that’s so fun. How lucky were we that we got to make this show where it was a very different way of working?”
Graham said it was a “looser” working experience on this show, in which she played Sarah Braverman from 2010 to 2015.
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She gushed specifically about her onscreen children, Mae Whitman and Miles Heizer, who played Amber and Drew Holt, respectively.
“I just love everybody, truly,” Graham continued. “I had the fortune of working with Mae and Miles being child-of-mine adjacent. Incredible friendships that have lasted.”
Graham famously found love on the Parenthood set, dating costar Krause, 59, who played her brother Adam Braverman on the show.
“Nobody knew about it for a while because we like to be at home, cooking and not going out,” she explained in a 2010 interview. “I’ve also been really protective of it because it’s important that you can buy us as brother and sister on the show.”
Us Weekly confirmed in June 2022 that Graham and Krause had quietly split the year prior.
The Gilmore Girls alum eventually offered more details about the breakup in her November 2022 book Have I Told You This Already? Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember.
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“When my relationship of almost twelve years ended last year, I went into a sort of shock I’d never experienced before,” she wrote. “I’d be doing normal things like driving to the store, or putting in a load of laundry, but also have the sensation of watching myself doing these things from a distance.”
Graham noted that she felt as though she was “moving in slow motion” following the split.
“It was as if I’d spent a long time watching a movie with ominous background music, not noticing, until it finally swelled to a level I couldn’t ignore,” she continued. “And none of these metaphors were quite accurate.”
While promoting the book, Graham hinted that she and Krause didn’t see eye-to-eye on certain things.
“I didn’t maybe ask some fundamental questions about ‘What are your values and what do you envision?’ and those more grown-up things,” she told People at the time. “And then they just caught up with us.”
