“I was very heartbroken and very sad and just trying to hold it all together as a kid,” Molly Shannon told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Sunday (Aug.
22.) Molly, 56, spoke candidly about the childhood car accident that killed most of her family. The star of The Other Two was only 4 when she lost her mother, younger sister, and cousin.
Her father, who was driving while under the influence, survived the crash but was terribly injured. “There’s no way that you could feel that type of deep pain about your mother and your sister being dead,” said Molly, “so you just hold it all in, and it comes up later in life.” Molly would get a chance to channel these feelings into one of her most iconic characters on Saturday Night Live.
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