“Yikes. Oh well."
On Monday, Aug. 18, Ms. Rachel joined Drew Barrymore as a guest on “The Drew Barrymore Show.”
During their conversation, Drew Barrymore asked Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Griffin-Accurso, if she and the character she plays on her aptly named YouTube channel have a lot of similarities.
“Are you and Ms. Rachel, one in the same?” Barrymore asked Griffin-Accurso. “I feel like I am, like, what you see is what you get. I'm no different,” Barrymore continued.
“So I'll be at, like I was at the Children's Museum with my son, running around with Thomas, and no one's saying anything,” Griffin-Accurso explained. But when she uses one of her most popular catchphrases in her very recognizable voice, heads will quickly turn in her direction.
“I’m like, ‘Good job, wow.’ And people are like, ‘Um, Miss Rachel?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah.’ So it's my, it's my spirit, it's my voice,” Griffin-Accurso says in how she is similar to Ms. Rachel, but there are some differences as well, she admits.
“She doesn't get hangry like I do I feel like,” Griffin-Accurso joked. “And she doesn't mind people’s chewing. Like, if someone's eating cucumbers. I'm like, ‘You almost done?’ And she's like, super nice.”
But if you ask Kylie Kelce, who also recently sat down with Ms. Rachel on her “Not Gonna Lie” podcast, Griffin-Accurso is as lovely as you would expect her to be.
During her most recent episode of her podcast, Kelce responded to a video Griffin-Accurso made following their chat where she revealed she accidentally took the “Not Gonna Lie” mug her coffee was in.
Because she didn’t ask if she could take the mug, Griffin-Accurso apologized for doing so. But Kelce admitted Ms. Rachel can have all the “Not Gonna Lie” mugs she wants.
“The minute I met her, I was like, she is exactly what you think,” Kelce said of getting to sit down with Ms. Rachel, “and then some. Even more delightful than you think. It was an honor, and I'd give her more mugs.”
Griffin-Accurso has made several public appearances on various television shows and podcasts, not only to talk about her work with children but also shining light for her advocacy for children in Gaza.
She has also used her Instagram platform to share the stories of Gaza children and families, and encouraging others to speak out. She told Democracy NOW! that a lot of her advocacy work is inspired by her childhood hero Mr. Rogers.
“He had such deep care for children,” Griffin-Accurso said of Mr. Rogers. “He took media so seriously, that it should really serve children and that it’s a big responsibility. So I think about that responsibility all the time.”
