\nMara Wilson recalls learning childhood pal Michelle Trachtenberg d.i.e.d\n
‘Matilda’ star Mara Wilson pens an emotional essay for her late friend Michelle Trachtenberg\n
Mara Wilson will never forget the moment she learned Michelle Trachtenberg had passed away.\n
In an emotional essay for Vulture on Tuesday, the Matilda star described the devastating phone call that stopped her in her tracks.\n
\u201cI was packing for a work trip,\u201d Wilson, 37, wrote. \u201cI looked at my phone and felt my stomach drop. My hands were shaking and my knees went weak \u2014 I thought I might pass out.\u201d\n
Wilson and Trachtenberg, who passed away in February at 39, had been friends since middle school. Though life had taken them in different directions, Wilson never imagined she wouldn\u2019t get the chance to see her again.\n
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\u201cThis wasn\u2019t supposed to happen,\u201d she wrote. \u201cShe was too young. She\u2019d worked too hard. I always thought I would get the chance to tell her how much I\u2019d always looked up to her.\u201d\n
The Mrs. Doubtfire actress also reflected on their time growing up together, revealing that Trachtenberg had endured relentless bullying as a child star.\n
\u201cThey call me Harriet the S**t, Harriet the Bitch, Harriet the Bitchy Spy \u2026 and so much worse. They never stop,\u201d she remembered her friend saying, referencing Trachtenberg’s role in the 1996 film Harriet the Spy.\n
Trachtenberg\u2019s cause of death remains \u201cundetermined\u201d after her family objected to an autopsy. Friends and former co-stars, including her Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar and Gossip Girl co-star Blake Lively, have since paid tribute to the late actress.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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