Natasha Lyonne may have faced issues with addiction as an adult, however, it turns out that drugs started to get her into trouble even earlier. In her teens, the star was "kicked out of Ramaz, where she was on scholarship, for selling weed," according to Tablet. She also "got kicked out of Chetz V'Keshet too."
While high school can be rough for a lot of people for various reasons, being part of Hollywood apparently caused friction between Lyonne and her teachers. She told Tablet, "[Ramaz] was an atrocious high school environment. Organized religion was in direct correlation with wealth and status. Rabbi Lookstein was my arch-nemesis." She later recalled the bitterness that she faced when she found success, saying that after she was given a role in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You, she was "kicked out," which was followed by an appearance on David Letterman's show. She claimed, "They were horrible to me but, after Letterman, they asked me to come back." She told them "no."
Beyond that, she talked to Gothamist in 2009 about some of her frustrations at that time, explaining, "Right after that I was really angry that I wasn't given the choice to go to college and be a philosophy major. I never had time to figure out what I wanted to do with this life." In the end, Lyonne took a positive spin on the situation, telling Tablet, "I'm very educated for a high school dropout."
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