Seeing her fans relate to her trauma and share their own has made all the difference. But in actuality, trauma and insecurity takes a lot of forms," she says. "I make jokes in the book like, 'You weren't really bullied in middle school. But it's through writing about her journey to self-confidence in both I Want to Be and her Golden Globe-winning show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend that Bloom has begun to heal.
Even in sections where she chronicles her meteoric rise in Hollywood, Bloom is still haunted by never feeling "normal" enough. The emotional fallout of being outcasted is omnipresent in each essay, as well as all of Bloom's life experiences. So says me, court adjourned, gavel goes bang bang,” Bloom writes in her first essay, “Pull Down Your Pants And Let’s Compare Traumas.” The following chapters chart the extent of her bullying, including the time a popular boy asked her out as a dare, and the toll it took on her psyche. I am the ultimate judge of bullying and I conclude that I was bullied and you were not bullied. “Were you bullied in middle school? Yeah? You were? Bullshit. "It only reinforced what I'm realizing as an adult, which is, everyone is insecure and miserable in middle school.”īloom's debut essay collection, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are, begins with a meditation on that time in Bloom's life. "60 people with stories like, 'Hey, I don't know if I was popular, but here's how I felt.' It was just people venting how they felt in middle school and high school," the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star and creator tells Bustle. Bloom had agreed to participate in New York magazine’s annual Vulture Festival in conversation with one of her childhood bullies - but she hadn't nailed down which of her myriad of tormentors she'd share the (Zoom) stage with. “Hi, were you popular? Did I go to school with you? Did you maybe bully me? Would you want to come talk to me about it, for a public event?,” the status read. Rachel Bloom recently put a call out on Facebook looking to get in touch with her middle school classmates.
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