Okay, we may as well just call this Teen Drama Day here on The Remote Island. The Star tabloid is outing 22-year-old Leighton Meester, who plays wicked-in-a-good-way Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl, for having a dark family past.
According to the magazine, Meester "was born while her mother was serving a federal prison sentence in Texas. The mom was allowed to stay in a halfway house for the birth, but had to return to prison on the day Leighton turned three months. The future star was raised by a relative while mom served out her sentence for her role in a major drug-running ring." What's more, "her father, grandfather and aunt all did hard time in federal prisons for drug dealing."
The Star helpfully points out that "none of those details appear in the actress' bio." Well, duh! Meester isn't running for president, she works on a teen soap opera. It's not as if the public has a right to know about all this stuff. (Yeah, yeah, her show is about gossip -- you can practically taste the mild irony.)
Now that the details are coming out, we hope the public shows her some sympathy -- and that when her story is inevitably dramatized, it goes straight to the big screen rather than being stuck on the Lifetime Channel.
Photo: The CW
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