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Podcast: Good Kids
Episode: I Gave Birth During the Pandemic
Description: Rachel Bloom, the Golden Globe-winning co-creator/star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, reveals what it was like giving birth during the pandemic at the same moment her friend and music collaborator, Adam Schlesinger, was losing his battle with the virus. With COVID-19 as a humbling denominator, she confronts mortality with the same out-of-body clarity in a way that she hasnβt since that one time she took way too many mushrooms in Amsterdam. βThere's nothing more on the nose about as one person enters, one person is leaving,β she reflects. βTen minutes after he died, I was breastfeeding because she needed food. So...