3 Jan 2011 - The ‘Gossip Girl’ star Leighton Meester hated her teenage years so much, she would avoid going to class and on occasions she experimented with cannabis with friends.

She said: “It’s funny that I’m now getting to live through what school should have been – glamorous and full of parties. But I didn’t do any of that stuff. I hated school."

The 23-year-old singer-and-actress found school a struggle because her peers gave her a hard time for working part-time as an actress while she studied.