It takes a lot for a tough guy likeTom Selleckto cry.
And if Tom Selleck is crying, you better believe everyone around him is too.
Selleck’sBlue BloodscostarDonnie Wahlbergwasn’t immune while shooting the series' final episode after 14 years on the air.
Donnie Wahlberg and Tom Selleck at a ‘Blue Bloods’ press conference in 2012.Vera Anderson/WireImage
I’m already emotional.
I look across the room and I see him.
It just was like the waterworks turned on.
The cast of ‘Blue Bloods’.CBS
I could literally cry just thinking about it."
Wahlberg said he “felt tremendous gratitude, not saditude, but everyone cried.
Everyone was crying, of course.
The last day was heartbreaking.”
CBSfirstannouncedthe long-running police procedural and family drama would wrap up after 14 seasons in November 2023.
My frustration is the show was always taken for granted because it performed from the get-go.
So how do I feel?
Its going to take a long time to sort all of this out."
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Wahlberg said the series' cancellation provoked “a lot of emotions.
Because in one sense, the 14 years went by in the blink of an eye.
In another sense, it’s been 14 years of my life.
I didn’t even know my wife when the show started.”
There’ll be a lot of tears.
Just how forward thinking remains to be seen.
The second half ofBlue Bloods' final seasonpremieres on CBS on Oct. 18.
