Lorraine Bracco reveals what she thinks happens to Tony after “Sopranos” ending that left her 'heartbroken'

"I thought it was bad and wrong. I was annoyed," Bracco says.

No one really knows what happened on The Sopranos after that infamous cut to black. But series star Lorraine Bracco has her own ideas of what occurred after the screen suddenly went dark.

TV fans will never forget how the iconic HBO crime drama ended after six seasons — Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) sat alone in a diner booth, waiting for his family to arrive. But when the diner door opened, the finale just ... ended. The screen went black. Debates raged for years about what it meant, and creator David Chase waited until 2021 to seemingly confirm that the cut to black meant Tony was killed, but Bracco, who played Tony's psychiatrist Dr. Melfi, revealed on SiriusXM’s The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw what she thinks happened after the finale, including that Tony was still alive.

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"Honestly, I think they bumped into each other in restaurants and stuff like that," Bracco said of Tony and Dr. Melfi's future after the finale. "I don't know. I think part of me wants to believe that she took a moment away from him, and they got back together, back in therapy. I could believe that."

Bracco admitted that she never asked series creator Chase what happened to Melfi after her final appearance on the show. "No, I never did," she said. "And that's a really good question. I'm going to call him right now."

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Dr. Melfi and Tony formed a unique bond over the course of the series, as she knew he was a mobster and a socioopath, but continued to see him as her therapy patient. However, when other therapist peers discover that she's treating a known mobster, she becomes shamed into dropping Tony as her patient because sociopaths tend to take advantage of what they learn in talk therapy to become even more sociopathic. Their final scene features Dr. Melfi literally closing the door on Tony.

Bracco said that she was "heartbroken" after filming her last take because she didn't like the way things were left between Dr. Melfi and Tony.

"I was also not very happy the way David ended it," she added. "I thought it was bad and wrong. I was annoyed. I told him, 'How do you invest five years into someone's life and just walk away?' I said, 'That is not cool.' And you know, that was it."

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