Drew’s story in Tell Me Lies ends in a tragic accidental overdose that is tied to his guilt over Macy’s death and the pressure from everyone around him.

Quick Scoop: What happens to Drew?

  • Drew is Wrigley’s younger brother and the person who accidentally caused the car crash that killed Macy when he swerved her off the road while driving intoxicated.
  • He is eaten up by guilt and becomes withdrawn, anxious, and increasingly self-destructive as the secret weighs on him.
  • Lucy later writes an anonymous letter to the college implicating Drew in Macy’s death to protect Stephen, which gets Drew investigated and ultimately expelled from Baird.
  • Believing Pippa wrote the letter (after Stephen manipulates him), Drew attacks Wrigley at a party, causing the knee injury that ends Wrigley’s football career.

Season 2: His fate revealed

  • In season 2, Drew has already been kicked out of school and is mostly off‑screen, but he returns in the finale to see Wrigley and try to repair their broken relationship.
  • The brothers go out drinking; Wrigley takes one of his prescribed painkillers and offers some to Drew.
  • Drew decides to split the pills in half and take them over the night, not realizing they are time‑release capsules and that mixing them with heavy drinking is dangerous.
  • The next morning, Wrigley wakes up and finds Drew dead on the couch, having died from an accidental overdose and choking on his own vomit.

How the show frames Drew’s death

  • The show presents the overdose as accidental, not as a clearly planned act, although fans debate whether his deep guilt and despair played a role in how recklessly he used the pills.
  • Wrigley is shattered and blames himself, feeling that giving Drew the medication and dragging him into the night of partying “ruined his life.”
  • Lucy also spirals, since her letter is what got Drew expelled and nudged him further into isolation and self‑destruction.
  • Stephen lies and tells Wrigley that he wrote the letter, which Wrigley forgives, but viewers know Lucy is carrying the real guilt, and that truth is set up as a big emotional bomb for future episodes.

Fan/forum discussion angle

  • On fan forums, people argue over whether Drew’s death is “too random” or whether its very randomness is the point: to show how one bad decision with meds and alcohol can change everything in a single night.
  • Others emphasize that Drew’s arc is written mainly to deepen Wrigley’s story and to underline how dark and emotionally punishing the show is willing to get, rather than to give Drew a full independent journey.

TL;DR: Drew is expelled after being blamed for Macy’s death, grows more unstable, and in the season 2 finale dies from an accidental overdose of Wrigley’s time‑release painkillers mixed with alcohol, leaving Wrigley, Lucy, and the rest of the group shattered and guilty.

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