Littlefinger Actor Aiden Gillen May Have Inadvertently Predicted His Death A Year Ago

Warning! “Game of Thrones” Season 7 spoilers below!

“Game” over.

The “Game of Thrones ” finale gave us a huge name reveal , an ice dragon and so much Jon Snow (Kit Harington) butt . But in the midst of all that excitement, one character’s story came to an end.

And Seven Hells! It was crazy.

Petyr Baelish, aka Littlefinger (Aidan Gillen), knew he was in trouble in Season 7 when Bran (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) came home and repeated one of his famous lines, “Chaos is a ladder.”

Despite Bran seemingly knowing all about his shady past, Baelish kept trying to climb that ladder, secretly scheming to push apart Arya (Maisie Williams) and Sansa (Sophie Turner).

It didn’t work.  

The dude’s schemes finally caught up with him on Sunday night after Bran apparently spilled the beans to Sansa about all the crap Littlefinger has been pulling. The Starks rattled off all of Littlefinger’s crimes, including his betrayal of Ned Stark (Sean Bean) in Season 1. 

It’s actually funny that the Season 1 betrayal came back to bite him, because Gillen sort of warned us about it a year ago.

In an interview with HuffPost after the Season 6 finale, we asked Gillen if the moment he betrayed Ned was still in play. He pretty much said it could be his undoing, which it was: