Tonight we said goodbye to Rebecca Pearson as her children and grandchildren prepared for her funeral on This Is Us. NBC wanted to make it as realistic as possible, so they created programs for the beloved matriarch.
Mandy Moore, who played the part, shared what was inside the program. Below is what was written to honor her.
Rebecca Pearson was loved by many. Her love story with her first husband, Jack Pearson, inspired everyone around her. She was fortunate to find love again with Miguel Rivas, her second husband Rebecca is survived by her beloved three children, Kate (Philip) Pearson, Kevin (Sophie) Pearson, and Randall (Beth) Pearson; and her grandchildren Deia. Tess, Annie, Jack, Hailey, Nicky, and Franny.
Take the risks. Make the big moves, even if they’re small moves. Forge ahead with your lives in any and every direction that moves you. I’m asking you to be fearless.
Rebecca Pearson
Thank you to Dan Fogelman for creating a show about a family we all fell in love with. Now, get back to comedy because I am sick of crying.
Tonight is the second to last episode of This Is Us on NBC at 9p, and it is the episode where Rebecca goes to join her two husbands, Jack and Miguel, in heaven. In other words, she succumbs to her illness.
Due to this “penultimate episode”, Mandy Moore gave us a warning, “all I can say is cue the tears 😭😭😭”
As if we didn’t know that was going to be the case. If we cried for Miguel’s death, then we are so going to be blubbering idiots through the whole episode and New Amsterdam. Good thing we have the 11p news to cheer us up.
If you are on TikTok, then you have seen someone go big to Céline Dion’s It’s All Coming Back to Me Now. I guess someone finally showed it to Mandy Moore, and she was like, I so have to do this. So the actress got her This Is Us co-star’s Sterling K. Brown and Jon Huertas to help her out, and they did. They made the singer look like she is ready for a Vegas residency.
As I watched this, I was screaming, “you go, girl!” And she did!
I am so happy they let go and have some fun between breaks because this season is more depressing than years past. I was ugly crying throughout all of Tuesday’s episode. But then again, I am PMSing and missing my parents.
Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore spent six years playing one of television’s greatest couples of all time. Therefore, it seems like they are really together. While the actors will part ways in a few weeks when This Is Us concludes its run, they will be together forever.
Or at least until the big one hits. That is because their stars are next to each other on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That is love, even if it is only for the cameras. But in our minds, it is real.
So congrats to the two of them as they spend an eternity together as people walk all over them.
Mandy Moore might have been ignored by the Emmy voters, but she was still invited to party with them.
However, she did not go to the afterparty because she had a 4:30a call time today for This Is Us. So, she went home.
As soon as she was there, she took off all of her clothes, went into the pantry, and ate pizza. I don’t know about you, but that sounds better than any glamourous shindig.
BTW If you want to see her as the Lady in Red, then click here!
