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How I Met Your Mother had a "heart-wrenching" deleted scene which Alyson Hannigan claims might have provided more closure to viewers.

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Hannigan, who played Lily on the CBS sitcom, discussed the cut "one-second" montage of the Mother character Tracy's funeral to TVLine at the Taste for a Cure event on Friday (April 25).

In the series finale, Ted ended up with Robin and Tracy was revealed to have died by the time Ted began telling his story to his children, leaving some fans and critics displeased.

Hannigan said of the missing funeral scene: "Honestly, if you saw [that] cut, it would be even more heart-wrenching than what the finale was.

"They were like, 'No, it's just too gut-wrenching'. And I was like, 'That's what I want. I want my heart ripped out and slammed on the floor and, like, stomped on!'

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"[I think it] would have been better for the audience, so that then they can process, 'Oh, [Ted] mourned. He got closure' - and then they'd be happy that [he and Robin] got together. Rather than be like, 'Oh, wait. She died? What? They're together, huh?' And credits. That's what I think was too fast."

Hannigan added that the last episode was around 18 minutes shorter than the initial script they ran through at the table read.

An alternate "happy" ending to the series finale will be included on the season nine DVD and the complete series box set.

Executive producer Carter Bays previously tweeted: "We only shot one script, but through edit room magic we had two possible outcomes for the series. We chose the ending we chose and we stand by it. But we loved the other version too."

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