Melissa McCarthy Shares Why She Can't Watch 'Gilmore Girls' in Her Own Home

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Melissa McCarthy loved her time in Stars Hollow, but she's not always keen to return to her role on, especially not in her own house.In a preview clip of her upcoming interview with Willie Geist on, the star reflects on her time on the Amy Sherman-Palladino hit mother-daughter comedy and shares why she's never watched it with her own daughter.McCarthy — who played Sookie St.

James, the clumsy chef and best friend to Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) on the hit series — is mom to 16-year-old daughter Vivian and 13-year-old daughter Georgette Falcone, whom she shares with husband Ben Falcone.While speaking with Geist, McCarthy notes that she's only ever watched the pilot of with Vivian once.«I watched it with Vivian once, my oldest, and we watched the pilot...and I was watching her watch it.

I'm also always afraid somehow, something's going to happen, and I'm going to be found in a room watching my own thing. So I have a super paranoia about, 'I can't watch my own stuff in the house,'» McCarthy says.«For some reason I'm always like, 'What if I pass out and paramedics come in and the takeaway is she was watching her own stuff, pretty weird,'» the actress quips. «It's all I ever think of when we turn on [the TV] and it's me.

I'm like, 'Ooo, God. Do I feel light headed?' I don't want to pass out in a room where my stuff is playing.»'Gilmore Girls' stars Lauren Graham and Melissa McCarthy in April 2003.McCarthy does understand the show's cultural impact.«It has had this generational, young people that watched it and now they've had their kids and their kids are watching it with their own friends,» McCarthy acknowledges. «It's had legs on it that I didn't expect.