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She says that her time at Interlochen, where she studied cello, gave her many of the building blocks to become a successful musician, not least of which being the time and support needed to explore her passion for her instrument, singing and songwriting.

“I had an incredible cello teacher, Crispin Campbell, who could sense in me that I was very much not going to be a classical cellist,” she says.

There’s something infectious about her energy and passion for music that translates into a powerful but hard-to-explain feeling of confidence and power that she notes as the driver behind her latest album.

“There’s like a chord or kind of a zone or genre of music that will hit a place inside of me,” she says.

I tell Betty how the lyric resonates with me personally as both a queer person and as a woman who has struggled with confidence in the past, and she acknowledges her own emotional connection to the song. But even before I knew she was part of the LGBTQ+ community, I was drawn to Betty Who’s music. In Betty’s case, it’s not only about being queer; it’s about her physical size.

Life is unfair. Does that feel like me?’” she adds.

After a few listens back to the album, she made her decision.

“All of a sudden, listening to the music I made, I was like, ‘I have to go sing this and carry this. “Thanks for sharing that with me. As a longtime lesbian fan, I was obviously thrilled about this courageous embrace of self.

In 2023, Betty Who's internal confidence radiates outward through her appearance, with a sense of fashion that is decidedly now more masculine.

“You should see how many Pinterest boards it took to get here,” she says, laughing. Notable alumni include singer Chappell Roan, actress Felicity Huffman, and Jeffrey Epstein, who attended summer camp there in 1967.

According to the lawsuit, Jane Doe claims that while at summer camp in 1994, Epstein, who often donated to the school, approached her while she was alone between classes, along with Maxwell.

Attorneys for the alleged victim claim Epstein "bragged to her about being a patron of the arts and giving scholarships to talented young artists like Doe."

They then asked about her family and financial situation.

They claimed the young girl was groomed over the course of years, and financially supported by Epstein, including being put up in an apartment with her mom in New York, where he intertwined himself in her life and allegedly abused the girl, forcing her to perform sexual acts.

The lawsuit was settled in 2021.

But as impressive as that is, her appeal lies somewhere far beyond the training. Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. And grooming also targets not just the child, but also parents, institutions, peers. That’s so cool. The Justice Department said on social media that documents include "untrue and sensationalist claims" against Trump before the 2020 election.

USA TODAY contributed to this reporting.

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