Grey’s Anatomy star Sarah Drew has spoken out about how “damaging” it was when online trolls viciously criticized her looks during her first big acting role in Everwood. https://t.co/MQWmS2n5Bj
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Drew, now 44, was in her early twenties when she landed the part of shy bookworm Hannah in ‘Everwood’ and although social media wasn’t yet booming, she still found fans calling her ugly online.
“Everwood was my first show ever, and I got addicted, there was no social media yet, but there were forums and message boards. It’s the worst thing ever. It was so bad for me. I came on to play the ugly wallflower best friend of Emily VanCamp. I had glasses and frizzy hair and not a stitch of makeup. I was the ugly one, the ugly duckling.”
There were some kinder comments too but it’s the negative ones that she vividly remembers word for word, citing “Sarah Drew is so ugly that the television cracks every time she steps in front of it” as one example.
Drew had worked as a voice actress so suddenly having her appearance scrutinized online came as a huge shock.
“I grew up never considering whether I was pretty or not. It just wasn’t a thing we talked about. My mom is a scientist and, just, makeup wasn’t worn. Hair, nobody cared about it, nobody cared about fashion. I never considered whether I was one of the pretty people in the world or not. All of a sudden I was like, ‘Am I an ugly person? I guess maybe I’m an ugly person.’”
