Michelle Trachtenberg didn’t have it easy as a kid. The actress, who was found dead Feb. 26 at age 39, was severely bullied in middle school, according to original “Matilda” star Mara Wilson.

By Lexi Carson Mara Wilson is mourning the loss of her childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, who died last month. She was 39. “I thought, she’d be one of the beloved girls in school.

"I had never seen Michelle cry before," Mara Wilson wrote of Michelle Trachtenberg, who she attended middle school with in California Derek Storm/FilmMagic; Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via ...

"Matilda" actress Mara Wilson is mourning the loss of her childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg. In an emotional Vulture essay on the "Harriet the Spy" star published Tuesday, Wilson paid tribute ...

Wilson said she often came to her defense, noting that she found it difficult to "reconcile" the names Trachtenberg was being called "with the Michelle I'd known." Mara Wilson is recounting her ...

But that didn’t happen. Every time I even heard someone say “Michelle Trachtenberg,” a kid would jump in to say that they’d heard she was mean, full of herself, a total b***h,” Wilson ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The moment I knew I was going to get along very well with Michelle ...

Mara Wilson remembers Michelle Trachtenberg as friendly and sincere, but says the late actress struggled with being perceived as the opposite. Despite her winning qualities, when Wilson and ...

Mara Wilson is mourning Michelle Trachtenberg. The “Matilda” star wrote a touching essay for Vulture on Tuesday about her friendship with the fellow child star — and her reaction to ...

The late Michelle Trachtenberg, like Mara Wilson, will probably always be best known for her work as a child star. Trachtenberg was Harriet The Spy; Wilson was Matilda. The two connected while on ...

The apartment in which Michelle Trachtenberg was found dead at the age of 39 has a new tenant—less than a month after the actress' passing. The listing for the unit made no mention of the tragic ...