Chris Colfer Opens Up About The Bullying That Inspired His New Book — mtv.com

From the outside, Chris Colfer’s life might seem like a fairytale. He stars in the hit show “Glee,” has a best-selling book trilogy and is beloved by an army of adoring fans. But when MTV News caught up with the 24-year-old while he was promoting the third installment from his Land of Stories series, he explained his world is far from picture perfect. “I remember when ‘Glee’ first started I would state the facts that I was a kid in Clovis, [California] who went to an audition and got this job and I was painted as this Cinderella person and, you know, of course, what they didn’t see was the years of cyber bullying I went through and the people that are really just viscous online because someone else has an opportunity and that wasn’t fun at all,” he said. “And I was like, this is such good material for the character Cinderella to take a spin on it.”

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