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‘Gossip Girl’ star Savannah Lee Smith was bullied, rejected on road to fame

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HBO Max ­reboot of the classic series. “There were some really nasty people at my school who’d constantly remind me that I didn’t fit in because of how I look.”She told The Post how mean girls ostracized her for being one of the few black students at her predominantly white Catholic high school.“But once I enrolled in the drama program,” said Smith, now 21, “I knew the theater was where I belonged.”Her love of the stage and disdain for LA superficiality drove her to New York City after graduation, enrolling in the theater program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2018.“Being in [New York City] has reshaped me as a woman,” Smith said of her adopted hometown. “Here I don’t have to fit.

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