Rosemarie DeWitt Says Ron Livingston Had to Hide From “Angry” ‘Sex and the City’ Fans After the Post-it Breakup

Livingston's Berger dated Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie in the first half of the show's sixth and final season.

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and dealt with the aftermath of the infamous Post-it note breakup in . In the sixth and final season of the , Livingston’s Berger dates Parker’s Carrie and ends things with her on a stick note that reads, “I’m sorry. I can’t.

Don’t hate me.” Decades later, the Post-it breakup is still one of the most iconic (albeit tragic) moments of the show. “Back in the day, when we first started dating, we’d be walking in the West Village, and there’d be those tours, and Ron would be like, ‘Go left! Go left!’” DeWitt recalled on .



She continued, “We’d have to duck into Magnolia Bakery or something because women would come up and scream at him. They’d be like, ‘You broke up with her on a Post-it!’ You know what I mean? So he really got a lot of heat for a long time.” Drew Barrymore, who’s a big fan of the , explained that she just rewatched the show again and felt like Berger got too much flack for the breakup because the Post-it is “so much more than us girls get now.

” “That seems like a novel in this day and age of ghosting,” she said. “‘I’m sorry.’ OK.

‘I can’t.’ Now I know where you’re at. ‘Don’t hate me.

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we’ll figure that out later. I may or may not, but it’s so informative and everyone poo-pooed it back in the day.” The daytime talk show host also noted Carrie wasn’t the easiest person to date on the show.

“I was like, ‘I want to be Carrie! I’m Carrie!’ Watching it this time, I was like, ‘Uh, Carrie’s a lot,” Barrymore said. “‘Carrie can push you away. Carrie has got some issues.

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