Long rant incoming, sorry!
I have been a fan of Carrie’s for YEARS (back when she was dating Alex Day) and I’m so disappointed to learn just how horrible she really is. I had my suspicions as certain aspects of her personality just don’t sit right with me. She seems very fake and patronising. Almost like her being kind to people is a gift because she’s so much better than them. She’s always been EXTREMELY argumentative with her fans and with just anyone tbh. I remember before she was back in theatre, when she was just doing YouTube, she would constantly reply to negative tweets and comments and it just seems like she always wants to argue with her followers. She seems to have a lot of insecurities and just feels the need to be defensive all the time, even if people aren’t even addressing her or saying anything wrong. And in her mind she probably thinks that’s her having ‘boundaries’ but picking arguments with people and being rude, often for no reason, is just being horrible for the sake of it. She needs to understand that she is making an absolute fool of herself. Back when she was 20, I remember thinking even then how cringey her argumentative interactions were, but now she is a ‘mature’ adult with a proper career and she just makes an absolute idiot of herself. It’s a wonder ALW hired her, she doesn’t have a professional online presence at all. Which other actors do you know who pick arguments with followers all the time? People will stick up for themselves and quite rightly protect their boundaries, but that’s not what she’s doing, she’s just picking fights and WHY? It’s absolutely pathetic. Is she still going to be doing this when she’s 40?? Her brother and Gi don’t do that, she should take a leaf out of their book.
I should also mention that a friend of mine met her twice at stage door. The first time she was apparently really arrogant and fake and just patronising everyone and acting like she was blessing them with her prescience and being all ‘look at me, I’m down to Earth, an actress slumming it with the commoners’. And the second time she spoke to my friend very sharply as my friend waited at stage door for a while (cue another rant about stage door!) and she got a selfie and an autograph and just mentioned ‘I thought I’d missed you, I didn’t know if you were coming out or if you’d already gone’ and Carrie immediately switched to her defensive mode and snappily said ‘Well I just did two shows for you, I don’t have to come out straight away’ which isn’t what my friend was saying. I’ve seen a few of the shows Carrie was in and just happen to always go on a day when she’s busy and not doing stage door and that’s fine, we all get it that we are not entitled to a meet and greet, she’s made that boundary very clear and most people respect that. But she was so bloody rude about it. I think she thinks she’s the future Judi Dench or someone. Like she’s convinced that she’s going to be a future ‘West End Legend’ so she’s already acting like one now. Be HUMBLE, Carrie. We can all see through your little act.
One more thing, it really annoys me that she goes on about how disrespectful it is that actors are seen as ‘low skilled’. Love, I’m a Carer, I’ve been living in at work throughout the entire pandemic and even the government consider me lowskilled. Actors have had it tough throughout this pandemic by losing their work and income but she isn’t one of them because she still makes enough money with her books and videos and sponsorships. She’s so bloody privileged but she still plays that ‘poor little hard-done-by actress’ act. You are not one of the many actors who has had to move out of their homes or had to go back to their old jobs. Stfu.
Also forgot to add, she mentioned a while back in a video that she isn’t as privileged as people think because her mum and dad worked hard in multiple jobs to give her and her brother the opportunities they had. Carrie. That IS your privilege. Your parents may not have been privileged in that aspect, but you were. Not all of us have supportive parents. That is your privilege, Carrie. But she so wants to have this reputation of ‘rags to riches’. She’s privileged af but just doesn’t want to be.
Long rant over. I needed that.
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