Sure, boyfriends are great, but so are the Olsen twins. And sometimes, in your greatest hour of need, it will be the latter that saves you—not Adam Brody—from the crushing wave of teen fame. Just ask Rachel Bilson.
If you're wondering how such an occurrence happens, look no further than Welcome to the O.C., an oral history of the iconic teen series from television critic Alan Sepinwall and series co-creators, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. In the book—released on Tuesday, November 28—Bilson recounts a particularly harried time during her time as a teen superstar, at a taping of the staple MTV countdown show TRL of the early 2000s, also known as Total Request Live.
