Rosie O’Donnell has damaged her silence over the dying of her “Harriet the Spy” co-star Michelle Trachtenberg.
The “A League of Their Own” star, 62, known as Trachtenberg’s sudden passing “heartbreaking.”
“I loved her very much,” O’Donnell stated in a press release to Us Weekly. “She struggled the last few years.”
The actress added, “I wish I could have helped.”
O’Donnell starred alongside a 10-year-old Trachtenberg within the budding star’s first film, the 1996 movie adaptation of the youngsters’s novel “Harriet the Spy.”
The Submit broke the information of Trachtenberg’s dying on Wednesday. The actress was 39.
Her mom discovered her round 8 a.m. Wednesday at her luxurious condominium in Manhattan’s Central Park South neighborhood, sources instructed The Submit.
Trachtenberg was “unconscious and unresponsive” when police arrived to the condominium constructing after receiving a 911 name for a girl experiencing cardiac arrest. She was pronounced useless on the scene by EMS employees.
Her dying will not be deemed suspicious and town health worker will decide the trigger, cops stated.
Trachtenberg’s rep Gary Mantoosh confirmed the star’s dying in a press release to The Submit.
“It is with great sadness to confirm that Michelle Trachtenberg has passed away. The family requests privacy for their loss. There are no further details at this time,” Mantoosh stated.
The “Gossip Girl” star underwent a liver transplant inside the final yr. Per sources, it’s believed her physique could have rejected the liver transplant and that Trachtenberg died of pure causes.
Amongst her many credit, “Harriet the Spy” remained necessary to Trachtenberg through the years. In 2021, the actress grew to become emotional when requested concerning the film’s twenty fifth anniversary.
“Don’t you effing make me cry,” she instructed Leisure Tonight on the time.
“I turned 10 years old on the first day of principal photography of Harriet the Spy,” the “Euro Trip” star recalled. “Rosie was my biggest supporter. There was a lot required of me. I’m extremely grateful for the experience.”
“She protected me so much,” she added of O’Donnell, who she had simply reconnected with over Instagram. “I held her first baby, Parker, on set on Harriet.”
Trachtenberg additionally spoke concerning the messages from followers she had seen through the years about how a lot “Harriet the Spy” meant to them.
“‘You inspired my life.’ ‘You made me become a writer,’ All of those, just beautiful things,” she stated of followers’ feedback.
Trachtenberg went on to disclose that she endured greater than 30 auditions to land the movie’s titular position.
“I still have the striped T-shirt that I auditioned with in a memory box,” she additionally shared.
