Reply #4: Great article. She's so real [View All]

[Rose Siding]

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Some of her critics' letters grew so specifically threatening, she said, that she "wound up losing 25 pounds in eight weeks from sheer fear." She added: "Depression, chain-smoking, no sleep. I really believed I was going to be killed." For a while, hired security people screened her hate mail.
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At the time, Ms. Garofalo said, "Sam and I made a pact: We're going to keep doing this. If there's no pay. If we have to rent studios out of our own pockets ... I'll be damned if the critics predicting our demise are going to be correct."
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"My alternative is what?" she said. "To scream at my TV? Or to come in and discuss all this with other people who are just as shocked, just as disgusted as me?"