![]() ![]() In her late 30s by the time she starred in a hit cabaret show – developed by Sex and The City executive producer Michael Patrick King – she struggled to take it off-Broadway, because she was deemed too raucous. Professionally, Everett spent a long time tearing her hair out, proverbially, “in the way that I didn’t feel like there was a place for me, and that I missed the boat”. “My family might have been wondering what I was doing in New York, was I just waiting tables, was I actually singing Brinton always believed in me from when I was little,” says Everett of her sister who died of cancer in 2008. ![]() Her friends – unlike her – had their heart set on getting married, and having nine-to-five jobs.Īnd like Sam, Everett also had a sister who was the one family member who understood her best. ![]() “You know, I grew up in Kansas, and I had a lot of friends, I was popular, and I went to school in Arizona, but I never really felt like I clicked in with my group of people,” says Everett, who grew up in the tiny town of Manhattan, Kansas where the show is set. But, says Everett, “I felt like I wanted to do something that’s closer to the heart”.Īnd one of the through-lines of her life, says the comedian, is how “very lonely” she was during her decades-long search to find her “people” and her professional niche, not to mention how feeling you don’t belong is still close to the surface for her, even though she’s since found professional recognition and, more importantly, the necessary coping skills to manage the ache. She recently performed at a benefit held by Jerry Seinfeld, at his home in the Hamptons, and sang at Amy Schumer’s wedding. This has garnered her all kinds of recognition. ![]()
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