That was a clip from the very last episode of "Mom,"
and now we have Allison Janney, and the rest of the cast.
Please welcome Jamie Pressley, Kristen Johnson, Mimi Kennedy,
and Beth Hall.
Hi, everybody.
Yeah.
Hi.
Hello.
So the final-- the finale of "Mom" is tomorrow night
and I guess has it sunk in that you're done?
I think it's starting to hit us all.
It's going to take a minute to process I think.
I'm missing my girls already.
Yeah, are you happy with the way the show wraps up?
I feel that Chuck took the lead on this one,
and I think it's the perfect way to end the series because
of what the series tackled.
The main subject, which was people in recovery.
And I think it's a lovely gift, and it was handled beautifully,
I think.
Good, good.
I can't wait.
And who cried the most leading up to the last episode?
I think we all did.
We all had our moments.
Yeah.
I'm pointing at Beth.
Beth, yeah.
I'm pointing at Beth but I don't know where she is on it, guys.
Beth.
You guys just automatically say me
because I'm naturally a crier, but I don't know.
I think I held up pretty well.
I will say there's a final--
it's actually the very last scene of the show.
Allison gives an incredibly beautiful monologue
and share and AA, and there was not a dry eye in the house.
But--
Wow.
Every take.
Every take--
I was--
Yeah.
And I d-- believe me I didn't feel the responsibility
at all, all week.
Like oh my God.
I have-- I felt so--
I've never been more terrified of having to deliver something
that potentially--
it was mine to mess up, you know what I mean?
And I was very--
I was very nervous about it, but I
wanted to give it the weight it deserved,
and just everything it deserved, and--
You did exactly that.
Well Allison is brilliant.
I mean she's just--
she can do no wrong.
I mean she's hilarious, she's an amazing dramatic actor,
she's everything.
Kristen, first of all, it's good to see you.
I haven't seen you for years.
I know.
But you joined the show a little later than everybody else,
and you were really supposed to just do one episode, right?
Yeah I was, and I actually did this sort of one turn,
and kind of one note performance, I thought.
And the producers came up to me afterwards
and they were like oh, we got to have you back on the show.
But everybody says that.
So I was like, yeah, whatever.
And then they called a couple of weeks later
and I was so excited.
So in here I'm still there, or I was still there,
until last week.
Yeah, and Beth, you were supposed
to play a different character.
Yes.
First I was cast as a character named Janice,
and I supposed to be in the AA group and get cut off
and we worked the scene, and then
literally I'm sitting in makeup on show night, and they said,
you know what it's not working, we're going to cut the scene.
So I was like, oh gosh.
But Chuck and all of them said oh it's not you, it's not you,
we'll have you back, and like Kristen I was like oh yeah,
right, sure.
And sure enough, they had me come back
as Wendy which was awesome.
I think, supposed to be just the one off, but kept coming back.
That's fantastic and Mimi, besides Allison, you've
been there the longest, and your character
has had a thing for rescuing cats, which
I hear was not ideal for you.
No.
Allergic to cats.
So, I was taking like an allergy pill
saying am I working with the cats tomorrow, OK.
And sometimes I would forget to take the allergy pill
and I'd be in the set, and I would
have to send someone to my dressing room to get them.
Oh that's a shame.
It's hard to love something, and yet you're allergic to it.
That's a terrible thing.
Probably not the only thing that that's true about my life.
All right, we'll get to that later.
Jamie you had your twin boys while you were at the show.
Tell everyone how they chose to-- this
is an interesting way.
Usually when someone's pregnant you're behind a desk,
or you're carrying something, but tell everybody
what they did with you.
Yeah, I mean, you know.
It's hard enough to be pregnant with twins, but they thought,
we're going to hide it, and I ended up
wearing a fat suit and a prosthetic face
to make me look bigger, and the character basically
switched addictions from alcohol and drugs to eating.
And went through overeating and--
until the babies were born.
And then, they were born in October in 2017,
so I had two months off and then came right back to work,
and had lost the weight so supposedly my character went
to a "wellness retreat" I believe it was.
Of course.
That's-- of course that's Allison, of course.
Just dogs.
My dad is lurking in the background,
and just my dog Dutch was like getting very protective of me
so he's like literally--
Oh Dutch is getting upset, tell dad to be careful.
He's going to bite his--
Dad, don't lurk.
All right.
Don't lurk.