‘Gilmore Girls’: Alexis Bledel Said Rory Changes After College Were ‘Inevitable’

A controversial Gilmore Girls storyline was when Rory (Alexis Bledel) dropped out of Yale. Bledel said it was inevitable that college would change her character. 

'Gilmore Girls': Rory (Alexis Bledel) leans on a desk in 'A Year in the Life'
Alexis Bledel | Neil Jacobs/Netflix

Bledel and Lauren Graham were on a Television Critics Association panel in 2005 for Gilmore Girls. By season 5, the Yale storyline had already played out and Bledel had strong opinions about where her character had gone.