Wilson’s Matilda and Trachtenberg’s Harriet the Spy, both released in 1996, boosting both child stars further into the spotlight. The actresses attended the same middle school in Burbank, and Wilson is reflecting on how their classmates did not treat Trachtenberg well in a personal essay published by Vulture on Tuesday.

Mara Wilson reminisced on her childhood friendship with the late Michelle Trachtenberg in a first-person essay and recalled that as kids, Trachtenberg once confided in her that she experienced bullying at the middle school they attended.

Actor Mara Wilson remembered her friend and fellow 1990s child star, the late Michelle Trachtenberg, in a moving essay. Wilson, who starred in “Matilda,” shared fond memories of Trachtenberg, star of “Harriet the Spy,