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Comic actorMolly Shannon Faced with an unthinkable tragedy at a young age, and she ended up inspiring one of her most famous characters. In a new interview withtheLos Angeles Times, Shannon opened his doors of the loss of his mother, sister and cousin in a car accident when she was only four years old. Of course, crossing such loss of loss has shaped one's life in many ways and as a comedian, the tragedy has influenced some of his work. In the interview, Shannon revealed that a classicSaturday Night Live The character was born in the way she faced as a girl after the accident that took away her family members. Continue reading to find out more.

When Shannon was four, his mother, a younger sisterKatieAnd cousin were killed in a car accident. His father was the driver and had been under the influence. He survived but was seriously injured. While his father healed, Shannon and his other sister,Married, had to go live with their aunt.

"The life we ​​left was not the same life we ​​came back," she explained to theThat time. He felt just as if everything was different. And I wanted my aunt to do things like my mother. I was like, no, my mother cuts the crust like that. Everything made me crazy. "

TheWhite lotus The actor added that it was difficult to continue without always thinking of his sister. "We will learn how to make funny things, like shouting our shoes, and I felt like:" Katie, my little sister, should be here to learn. She would have liked that. Katie would have liked to do the rabbits and tie his shoe. "

Shannon was a member of the distribution onSNL for seven seasons. Mary Katherine Gallagher, her Catholic schoolchildren who thought was a fantastic artist, but socially embarrassing and extremely awkwardly. Shannon also played like the character in Spinoff footage,Super star.

In theThat time Interview, Shannon shared that the character she created "was really based on me, how did I feel after the accident - really nervous, prone accident, wanting please, f *** ed up But full of hope. I just got everything I feel like a little girl and turned it into a character. "

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"I was very heartbroken and very sad and I'm just trying to hold it together as a child," said Shannon at theThat time. "There is no way you can feel that the type of deep pain about your mother and sister died, then you just come to hold it, and it comes back later in life."

She explained that she thought the experience affected how literally she was fallen into her characters. As Mary Katherine Gallagher, she has often interpreted waterfalls, like crashing in a bouquet of chairs. "I do not care if I cut or bleed," Shannon said his time to play the character. "I did not give a ***. I watched it like punk rock. I was reckless and because of what I crossed, I just care about anything."

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Shannon has two teenage kids,Stella AndNolan, with her husband, artistFritz Chesnut. "I look life differently, the loss of my mother and living beyond the years she had to live. And I feel gratitude," said Shannon theThat time.

In an interview of July withPeople,Speaking of his next memo Hello, Molly!(In April 2022), Shannon explained that she thinks about how she takes longer with her children than her mother. "I think all the time you have on earth with someone is a good amount of time," she said. "Every day of my life, I think," Oh my God. I'm alive. She never had to do that. I have to do it and I can see my daughter apply to colleges this year. "I see them as teenagers now and become their mother and survive what my mother was able to do. It's deeply healing, you know? It gives me gratitude."

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