ERIN FOSTER BREAKS HER SILENCE — and fans can’t stop talking. In a rare confession, she admits Nobody Wants This: Season 2 pulls more from her real love story than anyone realized. But here’s the twist: the ending she wrote may not be the one she lived. Did Erin just hint that Joanne and Noah’s “happy ending” hides a heartbreak off-screen? 👀
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Erin Foster Reveals How Much of Her Own Life and Love Story Influenced Nobody Wants This Season 2 (Exclusive)

“I hope that they have the same ending point of marriage and kids and happy ending,” she says of characters Joanne and Noah

Erin Foster attends the season 2 premiere of ‘Nobody Wants This’ on Oct. 16, 2025.Credit : 

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Erin Foster is sharing how much her life inspired the latest season of Nobody Wants This
Nobody Wants This follows Joanne (Kristen Bell), an agnostic host of a sex podcast, and rabbi Noah (Adam Brody), who unexpectedly fall in love
Season 2 of Nobody Wants This premiered Oct. 23 on Netflix

While the first season of Nobody Wants This was inspired by creator Erin Foster’s real-life love story, that isn’t the case this time around.

Speaking with PEOPLE about the latest season of her Emmy-nominated romance series, Foster reveals that season 2 — which premiered on Netflix on Thursday Oct. 23 — is “definitely not” inspired by true events in her life.

The character of Joanne (Kristen Bell) “does not have the same trajectory I do in my life,” Foster, 43, admits.

“I hope that they have the same ending point of marriage and kids and happy ending,” she says. “But really, it’s anything that feels relevant to the show or transcends my life into the writer’s room and really resonates for people, then it’s the right fit. But if it doesn’t resonate and there’s something different, someone else’s experience that resonates for me and for the room, then that wins.”

Adam Brody as Noah and Kristen Bell as Joanne in ‘Nobody Wants This’.Erin Simkin/Netflix

Co-showrunner Jenni Konner also tells PEOPLE that Foster still contributes “emotional truth” from her real-life to the season. “So she is like Joanne, she has a very clear idea of who she is, what she wants, what she feels,” Konner, 54, says. “And so the emotional truth of Erin and of Erin’s life is getting into every single part of it, whether the exact situation has happened to her or not.”

“That’s true,” Foster adds. “The emotional truths will always stay sort of on course.”

The first season of the popular Netflix romance series, following rabbi Noah (Adam Brody) and sex podcaster Joanne (Bell), was inspired by Foster’s romance with now-husband Simon Tikhman. She’s called the show a “love letter” to her marriage, telling Deadline that both seasons are “really a mix” of real life and fiction.

Foster met her husband at a Los Angeles gym in 2018 and got engaged to him the following year, before marrying during a New Year’s Eve celebration in 2019 and welcoming a daughter in May 2024. During an episode of her and her sister Sara Foster’s podcast, The World’s First Podcast, Erin explained that for the character of Noah, she set out to create a character who was “emotionally available, chivalrous, old-fashioned … but also really funny and confident.”

This season also includes another example of real-life love finding its way on the small screen, as Brody and Leighton Meester appear together in the new season, during which Meester plays an elementary school nemesis of Joanne, named Abby.

Speaking with PEOPLE at the show’s Los Angeles premiere on Thursday, Oct. 16, Brody, 45, shared that the experience gave them a chance to squeeze in some “alone time” as a couple.

“Driving to work together and getting a little alone time,” was the best part of working with his wife, he said, adding, “It’s sort of a date night.”

Meester, who shares two children with the fellow actor, previously spoke to PEOPLE about her guest spot in the series. “Obviously, I am a huge fan of the show for many reasons, but I’ve been so lucky to get to know everybody involved … [and they’ve all] been so kind and welcoming,” Meester said. “I was really taken by everybody’s kindness and their talent, and how that whole show came together.”

Nobody Wants This season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.