‘Nashville’ Shocker: Two Characters Die

Juliette Barnes' former manager blackmails her with a sex tape scandal and he demands $10 million to not leak it! But Juliette's mom Jolene takes matters into her own hands! The May 15 episode of Nashville was intense and it's building up to a major season finale! Warning: stop reading if you don't want to find out some major spoilers -- two characters died!

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May 16, 2013 9:35AM EDT

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Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere) goes on The View and gives a shocking interview. She’s about to admit that she has a sex tape and it’s going to leak. After Dante (Jay Hernandez) demands $10 million to keep quiet, Jolene Barnes (Sylvia Jefferies), Juliette’s mom, decides to defend her daughter’s honor!

Jolene invites Dante over to give him the money, but kills him instead! She then calls up Juliette and tells her not to do the interview, but instead Juliette races home to see what’s going on! When she gets there, Juliette finds something horrible. Again, stop reading if you don’t want to know!

When Juliette arrives home, she finds her mom dead. Yes, Juliette’s mom dies of a drug overdose. So sad — and we were so shocked!

This was such a crazy episode — we can’t wait to see what happens in next week’s season finale! Were you shocked?

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