Bloom’s experience in therapy, for anxiety and depression, as well as a natural earnest candour, make her the perfect memoir writer. “Rachel’s wild creativity stems from her conviction that she is entitled to follow her instincts and express her feelings,” Brosh McKenna once wrote, which rings true. Bloom displays the same blend of high-functioning competence and vulnerability as her Crazy Ex character, Rebecca Bunch, and the same goofy, yet acidic humour that made the show zing. I really miss him.” For months afterwards, she says, “I kept thinking that Adam was just a text away.”īut at a time when sadness is all around, her memoir, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are, is one of the funniest books of the year, with possibly the best cover to boot (inspired by the 80s-girl trinity of Judy Blume, Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley High). I still don’t really know what my grieving process is like when I don’t have a newborn, or when I’m not in the middle of the same pandemic that killed my friend. I’ve experienced the deaths of grandparents, but not a friend. “This was the first experience I’ve had with suddenly losing someone very close to me. “It’s fully sunk in that he’s dead,” she says, flatly. It has taken six months for Schlesinger’s death to feel real. ![]() “Now we have a Crazy Ex Zoom, where we all talk. “We didn’t know anything, there was no testing, we didn’t know how this thing spread,” Bloom says. Aline Brosh McKenna, the showrunner, stood in the street. Jack Dolgen, the third part of the songwriting trio behind the TV show, came to mourn with Bloom, standing 15ft from her fence. Schlesinger, like so many of this year’s dead, had no funeral. Her husband woke her with the news: Adam Schlesinger – the well-loved musician and one of Bloom’s closest collaborators on the musical-dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – had died from Covid-19 in a New York hospital, aged 52.įor a wild and strange period, it was unclear how to grieve. Bloom, tired and elated to be home, had a nap. ![]() Her daughter had arrived with fluid in her lungs, into a maternity ward that was rapidly filling with furniture as other wards were transformed into Covid wards. O n the day in April that Rachel Bloom finally took her newborn daughter home from the hospital, one of her best friends died.
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