![]() So I felt like there was a lot about my point of view that I wanted to share. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was personal, but Rebecca Bunch is not me. I’d had all these more personal stories that I wanted to share and I was doing a TV show that was not quite autobiographical. The more I started to think about it, that felt very narrow because who’s the audience for that? For that, there’s only so much and maybe that might be a book I write someday. Well, being on television, I got the obligatory book deal that a lot of people on TV get and, even before that, I had been toying around with writing some sort of book that was a lot like first couple of chapters, about adolescence and puberty, and doing it almost more in the form of a puberty book, like American Girl’s The Care and Keeping of You, but an adult version. Not anymore,” Bloom writes.Īhead of her book’s release, Bloom chatted with THR about the original plans for the title, why she had to take a step away from writing, her mental health journey and what she hopes readers take away from her story. “Maybe there are people out there who are ‘normal.’ But I don’t need to be one of them. Throughout the volume’s 288 pages, Bloom details her personal metamorphosis from someone who has felt abnormal for most of her life to learning that true happiness comes with embracing being different. So I felt like there was a lot about my point of view that I wanted to share,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. “ Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was personal, but Rebecca Bunch is not me. Though for four years she shared some of her personal stories with mental health through her Crazy Ex-Girlfriend character Rebecca Bunch, this time Bloom has put the spotlight on her own stories. But Bloom also doesn’t shy from being vulnerable with readers as she depicts her experiences with bullies (even enduring some in a comedy writers room as an adult), her mental health journey - she dealt with an anxiety spiral while pitching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, as detailed in this book excerpt - and traumatic events such as her daughter’s birth coinciding with the death of the songwriter and her close friend, Adam Schlesinger. On the surface, expect Bloom’s signature humor, evidenced in a musical theater chapter with an accompanying musical available on her website, Harry Potter fan fiction and even a section written from the perspective of her dog, Wiley (and more).
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