Drew’s Death in Tell Me Lies ‘Destroyed’ Wrigley—Here’s How His Brother Died & Made Him a ‘Mess’
It’s one of the most devastating scenes in this Hulu drama series. Tell Me Lies finally revealed how Wrigley’s brother Drew died and how it harbors emotion for the future of the Baird collegegoers.
For a refresher, Lucy (Grace Van Patten) sent an anonymous letter to the dean of the school to investigate more into the death of Macy (Lily McInerny) after she died in a car accident. Drew believed that Pippa (Sonia Mena), aka Wrigley’s (Spencer House) girlfriend, was the one to send in the letter. The brothers have a major falling out—enough to last a whole season.
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During Evan and Bree’s 2015 engagement party, Lucy called Wrigley a “coked-up gorilla” for the way he was acting at the bash. But Evan told her to calm down, saying “It was his brother’s birthday yesterday, so maybe take it easy on him.” This interaction caused a lot of speculation on what actually happened to his brother and now that all of season 2 has aired, we got an answer.
How did Drew die in the Tell Me Lies Season 2 finale?
Drew died from overdosing on painkillers. When Wrigley woke up from the night partying with his brother after they reconciled, he found Drew lying down unresponsive with vomit all over him. Wrigley tried to wake him up and called for help.
Lucy and Stephen show up and Wrigley explains that he gave his brother half of a painkiller. They eventually kept splitting more throughout the night when he didn’t feel the effects. “They were time-release, and I guess you can’t do that with a time-release pill,” Drew said. “I guess that can kill you. They’ll know for sure when they do the autopsy.”
Understandably, Drew blames himself for his brother’s death. “I’m the one who gave him the pills and I’m the one who ruined his life,” he says through tears. Lucy also feels guilty for making Drew’s life a living hell, but Stephen helps calm her down and push away the blame.
Tell Me Lies creator Meagan Oppenheimer explained to Variety that Drew’s death was supposed to happen way earlier in the season, but they kept him around because his actor was just great to work with. “Ben [Wadsworth] is so great and so lovely that when we started the writers’ room for Season 2, I was like, ‘Is there any way we can have him around?’ It didn’t make sense any other way. I really wanted Wrigley to be destroyed by the end of the season. I know that’s so terrible to say! We’ve seen him in the future, and I wanted to understand why he’d gotten to that point, because he is clearly a mess in the future years.”
