![]() I come from a loud, loving, funny family. HD: That’s probably why it took two years to write. All of your ex-boyfriends come off pretty nice. THR: You make a nice ex-girlfriend or at least an authorial girlfriend. I did a fairly balanced job of writing about him even though it wasn’t the kindest of break ups. I was actually writing about falling in love with the German as we were breaking up, which was incredibly difficult. THR: The book is also about the search for love and the story revolves around three men–the one you broke up with just before you left Hollywood, the one you moved to Nuggettown for and the one you left Nuggettown for. It taught me to be really comfortable with flux. You have to deal with these situations as they arise. Spider mites somehow got in or powdery mildew would show up. As much as an indoor grow room is about controlling the environment, I learned over and over again that I had no control. The world was always getting into the room. Every round with the plants is different. ![]() No matter what you think you know every time is different. That’s the other thing I learned from it. So one thing I got out of growing was an awe at what the world looked like when I had the time and space to observe it. This plant is so powerful, so strong, so hearty, so amazing! It’s a fool’s errand to think you can hold something like that back. It’s this little miracle inside your garage. HD: You start out with these little cuttings off of the mother plant and in two weeks they’ve gone from these little cuttings to an individual plant in their own right. THR: The relationship ended quickly but you stuck around Nuggettown. I got really tired of the whole comparing myself to other people in a small room, the grind of pilot season. I felt very constricted by my life in LA. He and his friends were able to go to the river on a Tuesday afternoon and swim in the sunshine. So I went up with him He had this great house and this veggie garden. I asked him what he did for money and he told me he grew pot. But I couldn’t figure out what people there did for money. I started talking to him and asked him where lived and he said he lived in this town I had been to 7 years prior and completely fallen in love with. I went to this meditation retreat and at the end of the three days this guy just sorta appeared next to me and invited me to a hot springs. THR: How did you end up Nuggettown growing pot? About six months after I moved, I went back and it was gone. I watched it bake in the sun each day as I would walk by. But it was to hot for LA so he threw it over the fence of this abandoned liquor store where my friend Mr. HD: The flannel shirt I gave to a homeless man. THR: After a decade of bouncing around Hollywood you decided to give up acting and as a symbolic act you burnt most of your possessions in the desert, except for the iconic flannel shirt and wool cap from the movie. It was nice to be reminded of that because that got lost once the film became so successful. The whole endeavor was taken on with such innocence and enthusiasm. I found a lot of humor in it, which I had forgotten about. It struck me as really sweet and earnest in a way that has been kinda lost in all the publicity. I hadn’t seen it in theaters when it first came out. HD: I watched it at the 10th anniversary screening. ![]() ![]() THR: When was the last time you saw the movie? It’s my own fault for that confessional scene. ![]() I’ve been the Blair Witch Girl pretty much my whole adult life. Heather Donahue: I’m so used to that by now. The Hollywood Reporter: Every story starts by mentioning that you’re the Blair Witch Girl. Here’s a condensed version of our conversation. She recently talked with T he Hollywood Reporter about her memories of the Blair Witch Project, about why she quit acting, and why growing marijuana is more Little House on the Prairie than W eeds. #Blair witch true story how toPHOTOS: The 10 Least Scary Movies of All Timeĭonahue tells her story in a new memoir Growgirl: How My Life After The Blair Witch Project Went to Pot (Gotham Books, 304 pages, $26.00), an always funny and surprisingly sweet account of her attempts to learn how to grow pot and find love. The relationship didn’t last but Donahue stayed with the marijuana farming, learning the ins and outs of growing pot. After kicking around Hollywood for a decade, Donahue chucked it all for a new man and a new life growing marijuana in a northern California town she calls Nuggettwon. ![]()
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