She probably made nearly $1M during her long career selling gossip.

Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

The Gossip Got Her

It is kind of ironic that gossip is what ruined her career.

Not gossip about her, although there was plenty, but gossip she would sell.

All told, she probably made nearly $1M during her long career selling gossip.

She did it all at $500-1000 a pop year after year.

She was on a lot of hit shows and whenever she was on one of the shows, suddenly there would be story after story about her co-stars. The only people who give her any kind of work now are people who have been friends with her for a long time and are in a position to give her work.

The last straw for most showrunners/producers was her brief gig on a very popular pay cable show.

There had never been any gossip about the show in its entire run.

Then, in its second to last year, our actress came on board and there was just story after story and people on set were reading things about other people on the set.

It was a family of sorts that was torn apart.

The show which was supposed to go on for several more seasons suddenly just limped through a final season.

The actress was not a part of that last season.

She was essentially poison after that.

Now her once big career is reduced to one off episodes or doing things on her own.

You all know her.

Michelle Trachtenberg

Weeds

It Is About Time That We All Acknowledge ‘The Michelle Trachtenberg Effect’

I have sat idly by for years without bringing this up, but I can do so no longer. We all need to face the fact that when it comes to television, Michelle Trachtenberg is an ominous force of doom. In movies, Trachtenberg has given solid, fun performances in “Ice Princess,” “17 Again, “Harriet the Spy,” and more, but when she departs from the big screen, her she fits into a weird form of menacing typecasting. Basically, she has a habit of showing up in the final seasons of good shows and messing everything up.

Maybe it was a coincidence when Trachtenberg showed up out of the blue to complicate the lives of both the Scooby Gang and the Fishers in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Six Feet Under,” but when she did it again in the final seasons of “Weeds” and then again in “Gossip Girl,” it became her brand. Plus, these are known to be her major television roles — this is what Michelle Trachtenberg is known for!

Probably the most complicated of these shows to argue exhibits The Michelle Trachtenberg Effect is “Buffy,” since Trachtenberg’s character of Dawn Summers isn’t really meant to be a malevolent character, but she still brings a host of new dilemmas with her and is a pretty universally hated by diehard fans of the show. Basically, Dawn is to blame for Buffy dying (for the second time), she develops some weird kleptomania that leads to a lot of demonic issues, and is just an all-around crybaby that everyone needs to babysit or horrible stuff happens.

So what do we take from all of this? Basically, when you see Michelle Trachtenberg making appearance towards the end of your favorite show, get ready for the shit to hit the fan.- Source