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The Falling Girls TV! Goop Translations! What I'm Watching!

Hi Friends!

Wait a TV show? I’m sorry that it’s taken me so long to announce this in this newsletter, but The Falling Girls, my dark cheerleader book, is getting made into a television show! From the Deadline announcement last November:

Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Fifth Season have optioned the rights to Hayley Krischer’s young adult novel The Falling Girls for television. Chloe Stearns and John Wynn are set to write the series. 

Set against the backdrop of a high school cheerleading squad, The Falling Girls is a thriller about the dark, intense and all-consuming paths female friendships can take. 

Made Up Stories’ Jodi Matterson, Steve Hutensky and Papandrea will exec produce in partnership with Fifth Season. 

In case you’re not familiar, Bruna Papandrea created a little known TV show called Big Little Lies. Yes her. I know, it’s totally crazy. Right now, Chloe and John, my incredible writers, are working on the pilot and sending it along to the studio. That’s where we’re at.

I’m not really sure why I haven’t put it in my newsletter before now. Maybe I’m still trying to process it. When the announcement dropped, I had been sick with bronchitis, in the throws of perimenopause and just dealing with life. Isn’t that crazy? We get so caught up with life that we can’t even appreciate the good things? After the holidays, I really needed to do a check in with my mind. I had, have, so many blessings. Two book deals, a healthy family, a house over my head and my book was getting made into a movie. So what what wrong?

Look, I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety my whole life. You can give me lots of pills and I can change my diet, and take a lot of supplements and DO ALL THE RIGHT THINGS and still feel like I want to get on the couch and not get up. The medications help, but it’s still a struggle. So I apologize for not making a huge blast about this excellent news.

Please send me all of your questions about the process or whatever you’d like. Do you want to know exactly how it happened? Do you want to know if I’ll have any part of it? Do you want to know what’s going to happen with the looming writer’s strike? Who is going to play the Three Chloes??? Please, feel free and ask me. I might not know! But it would be fun to talk about and dream about.

I’d love to use this newsletter to keep a conversation going. I certainly don’t want to bog people down with YET ANOTHER NEWSLETTER. I understand if it’s too much in your inbox too. We’re on a constant mission to delete delete that we miss some of the good stuff. I hope So Very is one of the good ones.

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GOOP TRANSLATION: Courtroom antics

Goop: “I wish you well.”

Goop Translation: I know you’re not supposed to approach the person who attempted to sue you and lost. I know if I was in a typical court, they would have dragged me out and arrested me for contempt or something.

Imagine if it was the other way around? Imagine if this moron just casually walked up to me and whispered in my ear? It would never happen. I had three body guards waiting on the sidelines to make sure nothing like this would happen. I was allowed to leave the courtroom, dismissed before everyone else like a QUEEN so that I could have time to exit without all of my disgusting fans trying to get an autograph or a hug or eeuuwh, touch me.

I have a multi-million dollar business to protect, OK? What did I really want to do? I wanted to pounce this guy like Joan Crawford in the Pepsi board room and say, “Don’t fuck with me fellas!” But I had to be nice. I have a son name Moses, for god sakes. I have Goop Wellness retreats where you idiots pay thousands of dollars to watch me be… centered.

Do not think for a second that I wanted to even breath the same air as this peon. But how good would it look if I, GP, could approach this loser, surprise him with my warmth, and my fucking compassion. Compassion, God, how I hate that overused word. I told myself: Treat it like a performance, GP. Like an Oscar-worthy performance. Show you care. So I did.

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What Am I Watching/Reading?

Succession, I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai, Leah On The Offbeat by Becky Albertalli, Barry Season 4, The Diplomat, The Big Swiss by Jen Beagin, Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano, Kleo on Netflix, Abbott Elementary, Yellowjackets, Beef, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, the movie.

All the love,

Hayley