- - Diane Kruger Reveals the Heartbreaking “Little Disasters” Ending ‘Changed So Many Times’ (Exclusive)

Julia MooreDecember 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM

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Diane Kruger in 'Little Disasters'

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the finale of Little Disasters.

In Little Disasters, Diane Kruger plays a mother accused of harming her infant daughter when she can't explain her serious head injury

Kruger tells PEOPLE about filming the heartbreaking finale of the series — which was adapted from Sarah Vaughan's book of the same name — which she says was "hard to shoot"

All six episodes of Little Disasters are now streaming on Paramount+

Filming Little Disasters was already an emotionally heavy experience for Diane Kruger. The finale was its own beast.

In the Paramount+ series, Kruger plays stay-at-home mom of three Jess Carisford, who finds her world turned upside down when her infant daughter, Betsey, sustains a head injury she can't explain — one that prompts her close friend, ER doctor Liz (Jo Joyner) to call social services on Jess.

Over the course of the six episodes, the truth of Jess' postpartum mental health challenges are revealed, as are the fractures in her marriage to Ed (JJ Feild) and the problems affecting her close friends.

In the finale, it's revealed that Rob (Stephen Campbell Moore), the father of Mel's (Emily Taafe) kids and her longtime partner, is the culprit. The episode begins with Jess facing jail time for mistreating Betsey and her two sons, Frankie (Jax James) and Kit (Jago Bilderbeck), and ends with the truth finally coming out: Jess left Frankie and Betsey alone in the house, during which Rob came over and let Betsey roll off a high kitchen counter while Frankie watched.

The experience left Frankie totally traumatized, which ended up being how the truth came out in the end, as he screamed when Rob held Betsey even briefly in the finale episode before telling his parents what happened.

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Diane Kruger as Jess Carrisford in the 'Little Disasters' finale

Kruger, 49, praises the young actor who played her middle son, as she tells PEOPLE, "It took a lot for that young kid, who obviously had never been an actor, he has no technique — it took a lot for him to feel safe, or that he would feel comfortable with people screaming, people crying. It's difficult for a kid to understand what is happening."

She says she took the 9-year-old on "a lot of walks, trying to make him feel safe and explained to him why I might be crying" in the scene. "And he understands it, but I still think it's not easy for kids sometimes to just be comfortable with that and not just freeze up. So that was a very difficult day."

The way the story — which is based on Sarah Vaughan's 2020 novel of the same name — wraps up was somewhat of a surprise to Kruger and the cast.

"That ending changed so many times," she reveals. "There were so many versions of those scenes."

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They also weren't shooting the show in order, which made things challenging in another sense. "That scene happened not at the end. It's interesting to shoot an ending and then, the next day, start at the beginning."

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JJ Feild as Ed Carrisford and Diane Kruger as Jess Carrisford in 'Little Disasters'

Kruger adds of how things wrap up for Jess: "It was nice to finally get to a scene that we all felt like was the redemption of not just my character, but also the other characters. It was, for us, a fun day, I guess. That was hard to shoot, but we all felt good about it."

She also appreciated the role Jess' husband Ed plays in how her story unfolds. "Once women become mothers, they always have the priority. And we don't always accept help from our partners, or we feel like we don't have help from our partners. And what I liked about the show is that they seem to not judge the men, or the characters," she explains.

"There were moments where I felt Jess was really harsh on him, and he is trying," Kruger continues. "And then yes, I mean, I'm so confused, I don't know what happened, if there's a possibility that he did do it, but that's more fun to bring into the performance."

Little Disasters is now streaming on Paramount+

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