Tell Me Lies newbie Tom Ellis wept for Wrigley after his brothers death in finale: Its heartbreaking
“Tell Me Lies” viewers weren’t the only ones who bawled like babies during the Season 2 finale when Wrigley (Spencer House) found his little brother, Drew (Benjamin Wadsworth) — spoiler alert — dead from an overdose after a night of partying together.The Post spoke to newcomer Tom Ellis, aka Oliver, the mysterious married professor who has an infectious affair with Bree (Catherine Missal), and he exclusively shared that he cried several times watching the “heartbreaking” scene.Ellis, who’s married to the show’s creator, Meaghan Oppenheimer, also gave his co-star House kudos for his dynamic job of making the death scene come to life.“I really felt for Wrigley.I want Wrigley to be happy,” Ellis, 45, told The Post in September.
“He really made me cry.It’s heartbreaking.
Spencer House does such an amazing job.I rewatched the finale today.
I mean, he really got me.I started weeping this morning again.” House’s character Wrigley is the happy-go-lucky jock at Baird College who spirals after injuring himself from falling off a frat house balcony.
Unable to play football with his team, Wrigley gets prescribed painkillers as he recovers but begins mixing the medication and alcohol.However, he’s fighting even bigger demons because he’s been holding onto a life-altering secret since Season 1.You see, Drew was involved in a car accident that killed the dorm roommate of Lucy (Grace Van Patten), and only Wrigley and Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White) know — until word spreads.Wrigley told his girlfriend, Pippa (Sonia Mena), who also kept it a secret; however, deceptive Stephen ended up spilling the news to his on-again, off-again romance, Lucy, and she secretly writes a note to the dean, exposing Drew as the drunk-driving hit-and-run assailant who killed her friend.After the dean and police question a panicked Drew, Stephen tells him that Wrigley turned on him and told Pippa while failing to mention he shared the secret with Lucy, causing a...