

And I wasn't ready to be a viable artist in comedy until I was like seven years in. I mean, I look at singing as something I just started. So that's what kind of led me to comedy a couple years later, because it was like, "Okay, well, I can't do this one thing I'm really passionate about, what else can I find in entertainment where I can be on a stage and I can have people's attention, where I can share my feelings and my thoughts?" But I took voice lessons in high school, and I had a really mean voice teacher who discouraged me and told my mom it was a waste of money for my lessons, because I didn't have quote-unquote "it." And so I just let that dream die right in that moment, because you hear from your voice teacher who you've spent hours with, and she says you don't have it, and you just feel like she's the final say in the St. I've always loved music and wanted to be a singer-songwriter. But singing has always been what I wanted to do in my life and career ever since I was probably in middle school and high school. So if I'm at all kind of good it's surprising to people. And it's nice, because as a comedian, the bar is so low. And it's nice to do something that's out of my wheelhouse, but that I'm actually adept at and like can kind of impress some people with. When I did Dancing With the Stars, I was not a good dancer, I was actually the opposite of one. Someone sounds like me, that's cool." It's so hard. Who knew you could sing like that?" And that's nice to hear, but I can't say thank you to anyone. People being like, "We know it's you." I have a lot of fans just DMing me being like, "Your voice is amazing. So you can just see people are still mean online, but anyone who suspects it's me has definitely been kind of taunting me online. But it was so funny, because I'd go look at the tweets, and already you can find people just not liking this character that they don't even know who it is. And I thought, "Oh my God, this is the first time that I can read about myself, because no one knows it's me." You know, if they say anything mean about Snowstorm, they don't know it's me, so it's not going to be laced with this idea of, "Oh, we just don't like her, she's a dirty comedian," because some people just have that bias already. And so I don't read anything about myself. Ever since I became someone that people have opinions about, like mildly famous enough for people to care, I just avoid comments, I avoid tweets, I avoid Instagram, I avoid Facebook, I avoid it, especially YouTube.
