Later, she was even more open about her childhood, admitting, ”My family has a crazy history. Probably the craziest I’ve heard of.”
“I feel so close to that person”
And now, it’s time t reveal the name behind this incredible journey: Leighton Meester!
Her role as the privileged, backstabbing Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl cemented her place in Hollywood. The series aired from 2007 to 2012, during Meester’s twenties, and she still looks back on that period with deep emotion.
“I feel so close to that person, almost now more than any other time in my life. I feel very in touch with her, and I feel for her,” she told the LA Times in 2025.
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But did you know that Meester’s ambitions didn’t stop at acting? Alongside her TV success, she explored the music scene, briefly flirting with mainstream pop before realizing she needed a sound that truly reflected her.
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, she released several singles, including catchy tracks like Somebody to Love and Your Love’s a Drug, which racked up millions of streams on Spotify and earned praise from fans impressed by her versatility.
Still, she admits the experience didn’t fully satisfy her.
“I just didn’t feel like I sang that well in those songs,” she confessed. “That’s why I stopped doing that style of songwriting, because I didn’t feel really good when I would sing it. That was something that I figured out in my 20s.”
