diff --git a/src/components/Lightboxes/AddToBasketInterstitial.vue b/src/components/Lightboxes/AddToBasketInterstitial.vue
index d17c1d625c..780d1bb5e7 100644
--- a/src/components/Lightboxes/AddToBasketInterstitial.vue
+++ b/src/components/Lightboxes/AddToBasketInterstitial.vue
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 					</div>
 				</div>
 			</div>
-			<div class="lightbox-lyml-wrapper" v-if="loan.loan">
+			<div class="lightbox-lyml-wrapper" v-if="loan.loan && showLoansYouMightLike">
 				<div class="additional-loans">
 					<h2>Support more loans like {{ loan.loan.name }}</h2>
 					<l-y-m-l
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
 						:visible="showInterstitial"
 						@add-to-basket="handleAddToBasket"
 						@processing-add-to-basket="processingAddToBasket"
+						@no-rec-loans-found="showLoansYouMightLike = false"
 					/>
 				</div>
 			</div>
@@ -125,6 +126,7 @@ export default {
 			loanTotals: '0.00',
 			loading: true,
 			showInterstitial: false,
+			showLoansYouMightLike: true,
 			userPrefHideInterstitial: false,
 		};
 	},
diff --git a/src/components/LoansYouMightLike/lymlContainer.vue b/src/components/LoansYouMightLike/lymlContainer.vue
index cf5d8e7cab..ebadaa261d 100644
--- a/src/components/LoansYouMightLike/lymlContainer.vue
+++ b/src/components/LoansYouMightLike/lymlContainer.vue
@@ -222,21 +222,27 @@ export default {
 			}
 		},
 		parseLoansYouMightLike(loansYouMightLike) {
-			const withoutBasketedLoans = _filter(
-				loansYouMightLike || [],
-				loan => this.itemsInBasket.indexOf(loan.id) === -1
-			);
+			const filteredLoans = loansYouMightLike.filter(loan => {
+				// sometimes null comes back from the ml service
+				if (loan === null) return false;
+				return this.itemsInBasket.indexOf(loan.id) === -1;
+			});
 
 			// Pruning out duplicates among queried loan sets
-			const prunedLoansYouMightLike = _uniqBy(withoutBasketedLoans, 'id');
+			const prunedLoansYouMightLike = _uniqBy(filteredLoans, 'id');
 
 			// Randomize array order to be displayed in the front end
 			this.loansYouMightLike = _shuffle(prunedLoansYouMightLike);
 
 			// once we have loans flip the switch to show them
-			this.showLYML = true;
+			this.showLYML = prunedLoansYouMightLike.length > 0 || false;
 			this.loading = false;
 
+			// emit event signifying no recommended loans found
+			if (prunedLoansYouMightLike.length === 0) {
+				this.$emit('no-rec-loans-found');
+			}
+
 			this.fireExperimentTracking();
 
 			// update window width once loans are loaded