Are the kids here mean to you?

Surely, I thought, she’d be one of the beloved girls in school. But that didn’t happen. Every time I even heard someone say “Michelle Trachtenberg,” a kid would jump in to say that they’d heard she was mean, full of herself, a total b***h,

They call me Harriet the S**t, Harriet the B***h, Harriet the B***hy Spy … and so much worse. They never stop,

This wasn't supposed to happen. She was too young. She'd worked too hard. I always thought I would get the chance to see her again, to tell her how much I'd always looked up to her. To tell her the times we spent together as children were some of the best of my life,

I was packing for a work trip, I looked at my phone and felt my stomach drop. My hands were shaking and my knees went weak — I thought I might pass out,

I will not share the details of our conversations over the last 6 months, but you knew that death was a high possibility,

I’d never seen her anything other than perfectly composed and confident,

Because they are to me.”

It wasn’t just that she was being bullied; it was that there wasn’t any way she could get them not to hate her. So much of being a child actor is about making everyone happy. It felt cruelly ironic to be so hated when our raison d’être was getting people to like us,

I was packing for a work trip

I was being bullied at school — both for having been a child actor and just for being an awkward teenager — and I felt completely isolated,

... The... They said she was “mean.” Because they were mean to her first, then when she went on the defense, they called her a b***h,