XoXo! It is a mini-reunion for the‘Gossip Girl’ stars Penn Badgley and Taylor Momsen. The series ran for six seasons, and in the end, we saw Penn’s character, Dan, and Blake Lively’s character, Serena, get married, and we came to know that Dan Humphrey has been Gossip Girl all this time! The series got a reboot, but it could not match the hype that the original one had!
Taylor Momsen played Jenny Humphrey, the sister of Penn Badgley, in ‘Gossip Girl.’ The on-screen brother and sister reunited on Badgley’s podcast, ‘Podcrushed.’ Jenny’s character was highly vamped, as she was an outsider in the insider world, and to get access to the insides of New York’s elite, she plotted many evil plans, even at the cost of losing friendships and family. However, Taylor was only 12 years old when she joined the series, and just after four seasons, her character disappeared.
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Taylor Momsen Had The Music Epiphany While Shooting ‘Gossip Girl’
During Penn Badgley’s ‘Podcrushed’ podcast, Taylor Momsen arrived in the studio to reminisce about the ‘Gossip Girl’ days. The reel siblings talked about how Taylor said yes to coming on board the series when she was a mere 12-year-old. She said, “Larger powers than me came down and went, ‘This is a great opportunity.’ ” While she was shooting for the series, she found peace in music.
Momsen continued, “That’s where music became such a solace for me. Thanking back on my life, it was this place where I could just be — writing songs, emoting how I felt. I was by myself a lot. I didn’t have my own clique.”
In 2009, she founded the rock band The Pretty Reckless with her friends. Talking about acting, she said, “It was a childhood thing that I got put into at two years old. I wasn’t making my own choices then.” The artist continued, “Literally, as soon as I got to an age where I could make my own decisions, it was like a click…”
She added, “I woke up one morning and went, ‘Wait a second. I don’t have to do this? I don’t have to do this other job? I can just play in my band and tour and write songs? I can just do that?’ Granted, a little more complicated to get out of a television show than that, but the answer was yes.”
The lovely people on ‘Gossip Girl’ helped her find her calling and follow it. Taylor said during the podcast, “They went, “Well, we can’t let you out of your deal, but we can write you out of the show, so you can go on tour.’ They really allowed me to follow my dream, and I’m forever grateful and thankful to them for that.”
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The Actor Went Into A Dark Hole After Death Of Two Bandmates
The last few years were difficult for Taylor Momsen. She lost two of her bandmates, one of whom was her best friend Kato Khandwala, who died in a motorcycle crash. The other bandmate, Chris Cornell, died by suicide in 2017. Recently, The Pretty Reckless wrapped the ‘Death by Rock and Roll’ tour, which the actress wrote after the deaths of her band members.
Talking about the grief that ensued, Taylor Momsen told Penn Badgley, “It took me very down. I fell into a very dark hole of depression and substance abuse, and everything that comes with death and loss and trauma. I essentially quit everything. I stopped making music; I couldn’t listen to music. It bummed me out, for lack of better term. It was dark. It got very dark there for a while.”
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