Jenna Ortega under fire for saying she was an unhappy person after Wednesday fame: Cry me a river

She doesn’t bury hatchets; she sharpens them.Jenna Ortega has come under fire for saying she was “an unhappy person” after getting famous for her role as Wednesday Addams in the hit Netflix show “Wednesday.”The 22-year-old actress opened up about the role and the fame it brought her during an interview with Harper’s Bazaar published on Wednesday, May 28.“To be quite frank, after the show and trying to figure everything out, I was an unhappy person,” Ortega admitted. “After the pressure, the attention – as somebody who’s quite introverted, that was so intense and so scary.”Ortega, who began filming the first season of “Wednesday” in 2021, added that she felt “incredibly misunderstood” upon getting popular from the show.“I feel like being a bully is very popular right now,” she added.

“Having been on the wrong side of the rumor mill was incredibly eye-opening.”Elsewhere in her interview, the scream queen said that being Wednesday Addams is “very patronizing” because she is stuck playing a schoolgirl on the screen despite becoming a young woman in real life.Ortega, whose birthday is Sept.27, will turn 23 shortly after the second season of “Wednesday” premieres on Netflix on Aug.

6.“I’m doing a show I’m going to be doing for years where I play a schoolgirl,” Ortega explained.“But I’m also a young woman.

You just don’t feel like you’re being taken seriously.”“You know, it’s like how you’re dressed in the schoolgirl costume,” she added.“There’s just something about it that’s very patronizing.”But Ortega’s remarks created a serious backlash, with several of her critics rushing to social media to bash the former “Scream” star over her surprising comments.“I bet the huge 6 and 7 figure paychecks she took for the role weren’t that patronizing though,” one person tweeted after the interview.“Cry me a river,” someone else added, while a third critic commented, “So sick of pe...