How I Became a Real-Life 'Gossip Girl' for a Day

For Class of 2007 Week, Fuse is celebrating all the greatest things culture gave us exactly one decade ago. Blair Waldorf, Chuck Bass, Serena Van Der Woodsen, do any of these names ring a bell? It does for me. Not only was '07 the premiere year of Gossip Girl—the beloved television drama following the lives of privileged teenagers on the Upper East Side—it was on this very show that my acting talents would be discovered five years later. Okay, not quite, but I was a principal background actress on the show for one episode playing a high school mean girl. The pro: It was the last scene of the entire series, so technically the whole series ended with me; not Chuck Bass, Serena, or even Queen B. The con: You can't even see my face.

Here's my defining experience leading up to my five seconds of fame on the show.