coronavirus pandemic and quarantine, Rachel Bloom welcomed her first child, but also said goodbye to a dear friend. ET's Matt Cohen spoke with the 33-year-old actress, who was promoting the digital and Blu-ray release of where she got candid about the hardships she'd endured over the last couple months.Bloom gave birth to her daughter with husband Dan Gregor in March, with her baby spending days in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) after she had fluid in her lungs.
At the same time, Bloom's dear friend, Adam Schlesinger, cofounder of the band Fountains of Wayne, was hospitalized for COVID-19, and died.«It was an incredibly intense time,» Bloom recalled. «Because when [my daughter] immediately came out, she had some trouble breathing.