Broad City's end may not have her shaking in her boots. I infuse a lot of things I'm really proud of.'Ĭoming out may not have made Jacobson nervous. 'There are still so many things that are in the show that are about me, and I tackle it in a more humorous way on the show - but I'm really excited about the season. But she adds this season, which will delve into Abbi and Ilana's friendship, is its most vulnerable. The personal nature of I Might Regret This, she says, is different than Broad City, which will end after its fifth season. I thought it would just make me not depressed anymore and happy again, and I just realized this is not good for either of us.' 'And I felt like that would be the answer, for me to take care of this thing, to throw my energy and my love that I couldn't find into this dog. 'I'd wanted a dog for so long, and I'd been looking,' she says. In one intimate essay, she tells how she adopted a dog after her breakup only to return the pup a week later upon realizing she couldn't handle the responsibility. Opening up about her sexual orientation gave Jacobson an opportunity to talk very publicly about her private life - which is exactly what she does in her book. 'I knew when I did it that was going to be some click-bait thing for them,' she says. Jacobson came to a realization: 'Oh, no one knows about me.' What kind of guy are you into?'' she says.

'The interviewer - it was such a weird series of questions - she was like, 'I don't understand how you're single!' She was like, 'I mean, you're, like, such a catch - you're doing all these things. Jacobson, whose friends knew she dated both men and women, publicly came out last year in an interview with Vanity Fair. 'Besides the breakup part of it, the actual coming to terms with that part of who I am was fairly easy.'

Still, she wasn't nervous to talk about it. Jacobson, 34, first dated a woman when she was 32 - and it was the end of that relationship that sparked her journey across the country. 'I didn't know what the book was going to be, but I'm such a workaholic that in order for me to take a vacation, I had to make it a project.'Īnd she felt like she had a relatable-yet-specific point-of-view to offer as a queer woman who came to that realization later in life. 'I knew I was going to write it,' she says. Healing from a heartbreak can already a seemingly Herculean feat, and documenting the whole thing is something Jacobson said she felt she had to do. I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff is a collection of confessional essays, anecdotes and personal drawings from the cross-country road trip Jacobson took after a devastating breakup. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.

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