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Mackenzie Rosman, who starred as Ruthie Camden on 7th Heaven, was a recent guest on The Not So Little Rascals podcast.
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During her appearance, she told hosts Jordan Warkol and Blake Collins that she used to get prison fan mail sent to her house as a kid.
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“You know what’s funny, you look back, and you’re like, ‘It’s weird to get letters to your house,'” Warkol said, after he said he also received some fan mail at his childhood home.
Mackenzie Rosman is looking back on one of the more unsettling parts of growing up as a child star: receiving fan mail from people behind bars.
The 7th Heaven alum recently stopped byThe Not So Little Rascals podcast, hosted by former child actors and The Little Rascals movie co-stars Jordan Warkoland Blake Collins, where the trio discussed what growing up in Hollywood was really like and how their lives have changed since their days as young performers.
During the conversation, Rosman asked her hosts whether they had ever dealt with stalkers, prompting a discussion about some of the stranger fan interactions they experienced as children. Collins brought up a previous podcast guest, Justin Cooper, best known for playing Jim Carrey‘s son in the 1997 comedy Liar, Liar, who revealed during his September appearance on the podcast that he used to receive fan mail from prisoners.
“Yeah, same!” Rosman replied, revealing that she had a very similar experience.
“You got prison mail, too?!” Collins asked.
“Yeah. Sometimes at my house,” Rosman said.
Collins then joked that he and Warkol simply weren’t “f—-ing cute enough” to attract that kind of attention.
Rosman doubled down on the unusual nature of her fan mail, sarcastically asking, “You didn’t get people asking you to sign an old sock?”
Warkol, meanwhile, recalled receiving letters at his family home, too, though he admitted that the experience didn’t seem quite as strange to him as a kid.
“You know what’s funny, you look back, and you’re like, ‘It’s weird to get letters to your house,’ and [at the time] you’re like, ‘I am so happy to sign this,'” he said.
Rosman agreed, pointing out just how unusual it was for adults to be writing directly to children. Putting on a little kid’s voice, she joked, “You’re just writing to an 8-year-old.”
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Then, returning to a more serious tone, she reiterated, “It’s weird to get letters to your house.”
Warkol had one final confession, however: “I kind of wish I had a prison mail story though, I’ll be honest.”
Rosman starred as Ruthie Camden on 7th Heaven throughout the long-running family drama’s 11-season run, which ended in May 2007.
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