The life of the actress who gave life to Blair Warldof was not easy at all. That led her to legally confront her mother.
Leighton Meester gained widespread popularity in Hollywood after playing Blair Warldof in the popular teen drama series Gossip Girl. After that great work with which she became a reference for young women, the doors of the industry were no longer closed to her.
However, the first years of the actress' life were not easy at all and it was her desire to succeed within her industry that saved her. It turns out that her mother was involved in a drug trafficking ring, which landed her in a Texas prison in 1983.
There she met and fell in love with another prisoner and became pregnant by the actress, who was born in prison in April 1986. Leighton Meester's first three months allowed mother and daughter to live together in a property located very close to the prison facility.
After that period expired, the baby was left in the care of her maternal grandmother, given that her father and her grandfather were in prison, also for drug trafficking.
The truth is that when Leighton Meester's mother was released, the two moved to New York where the current actress began to try her luck as a model at the age of 10 and earn her first income, but her first-born daughter took advantage of her and he kept his profits.
When she got the opportunity to star in Gossip Girl, she sent her mother the sum of $5,200 every month so that she could pay for treatment for her brother Lex, who was suffering from a strange illness. . However, over time she discovered that she used the money for her own cosmetic treatments and did not take care of her son.
