Taylor Momsen says playing the Grinch was “alienating” at school

Taylor Momsen.
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The mean kids in gossip Girl I have nothing to do with those little kids that Taylor Momsen grew up with. The Pretty Reckless bandmate and former gossip Girl The actress reunited with her co-star Penn Badgley on a Sept. 6 episode of his middle school stories podcast. pod crushedto go through a child star’s trauma. Apparently her classmates wouldn’t let her past Cindy Lou Who, Momsen explained. “First, Spoilsport “I’ve changed my life in many ways – one of which was being mercilessly made fun of,” said Momsen, who played Cindy when she was seven. “Every time I started a new school or went somewhere else, I don’t think the kids knew my name.” Worse, they didn’t bother to give her the name of the character in the film. It was “just Grinch Girl”. “I got used to it, but it was strange,” she continued. Badgley called it a simple case of children who had no filter, no jealousy, as Momsen suspected. “That’s because these little kids are very confident in who they are and just see the reality,” he joked. So the Grinch ruined a lot more than just Christmas.