Zooey Deschanel: Website comments are pure toxic energy

OHMYGOSSIP — Zooey Deschanel has said that the comments sections of some websites are “pure toxic energy”. The actress and singer told Cosmopolitan that her own website Hello Giggles, set up with Molly McAleer and Sophia Rossi, feels like a counterbalance to the rest of the web.

“We started Hello Giggles for fun, but now I feel like I’m on a mission to make it a thing that helps other women. If there had been a place like that for me when I was 13, I would have felt so much less alone.”

She added: “I was so tired of every site having these comment sections that were pure, pure toxic energy. I put myself out there; it’s part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me.

“At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it. But if someone were to do that to one of our 13-year-old bloggers, I would kill them!”

Deschanel continued: “People really teased me. It was really bad. Nothing could be as hard as middle school. There were insecurities that I think I would have worked through a lot faster if I’d had certain tools and could have connected with certain people earlier.”

Asked about her ideal guy, Deschanel said: “I’d be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means… Yeah, authentic and creative.”

She added that she believed in true love, explaining: “My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.”

Read the full interview in the April issue of Cosmopolitan, on sale March 5.

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