'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' star Rachel Bloom describes giving birth amid COVID-19 pandemic
Former "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" star Rachel Bloom opened up on social media about giving birth to her daughter during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Bloom wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday that as medical professionals attended to her newborn in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, she and her husband, TV writer Dan Gregor, "watched the maternity ward around us change hourly to prepare for the upcoming COVID storm."
Meanwhile, the Emmy winner also shared that her thoughts have been with her "dear friend," "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" songwriter Adam Schlesinger, who had been hospitalized for coronavirus. Schlesinger died Wednesday at 52 years old, ABC News confirmed.
"Having a baby in the NICU during a pandemic while a dear friend was in the hospital 3,000 miles away made this by far the most emotionally intense week of mine and Gregor’s lives," she wrote. "The whole family is now home safe and I am just so grateful to all of our medical workers. From those in our NICUs to those directly helping COVID patients like Adam, they are sacrificing so much to fight on the front lines of this war. Thank you thank you thank you."
This is the first child for Bloom, 32, who married her husband in 2015 and announced her pregnancy at the Creative Arts Emmys last September. At the time, Bloom had just won her first Emmy along with Schlesinger and Jack Dolgen for the song "Antidepressants Are So Not A Big Deal" from her CW show that ended last year.
On Tuesday, Bloom asked her Twitter followers to "please keep Adam in your thoughts and prayers."
"It's been an extremely scary week," she added.
After his death, she wrote in a separate post that she was "at a complete loss for words."
"He is irreplaceable," she stated.
