Jacobson, whose friends knew she dated both men and women, publicly came out last year in an interview with Vanity Fair. 'Besides the breakup part of it, the actual coming to terms with that part of who I am was fairly easy.' Still, she wasn't nervous to talk about it. Jacobson, 34, first dated a woman when she was 32 - and it was the end of that relationship that sparked her journey across the country. 'I didn't know what the book was going to be, but I'm such a workaholic that in order for me to take a vacation, I had to make it a project.'Īnd she felt like she had a relatable-yet-specific point-of-view to offer as a queer woman who came to that realization later in life. 'I knew I was going to write it,' she says. Healing from a heartbreak can already a seemingly Herculean feat, and documenting the whole thing is something Jacobson said she felt she had to do. I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff is a collection of confessional essays, anecdotes and personal drawings from the cross-country road trip Jacobson took after a devastating breakup.

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“It’s the most terrifying thing in the world for the person you love to suddenly stop, to disappear, and not want to be in your life anymore,” she writes. Up until then, Jacobson says, the “balance between work and personal satisfaction was so uneven.”īut when the relationship ended, Jacobson had to learn to deal with the very real (and real-world) ramifications, unlike the romantic comedies she had grown up watching. Not only was it her first time dating someone of the same gender, it was, as she reveals, also the first time she had ever been in love. In addition to dishing on “Broad City” (the actress says she was “devastated” when FX passed on the show before it got picked up by Comedy Central), Jacobson also gives readers an intimate glimpse into her personal life.Ī particularly poignant chapter, titled “Heartbreak City,” sees the 34-year-old Jacobson, who came out as bisexual in an interview earlier this year, write about falling in love with a woman. Jacobson documented portions of her road trip on social media last year, and says she kept a journal along the way, though her notes and entries served only as a starting point for the book.

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