Romano also shared her regrets, what's she's learned and where she stands, financially, now (via toofab)
"It was a sad year for me, but it was also an interesting year. You know, I started to understand that I had a certain amount of money and that made me feel super confident," she recalled, adding that at the time,"People were telling me I wasn't good enough."
"I was using buying things and money as a weapon," she shared."I felt like if I could just buy certain things, I would feel better or if I just lived a certain lifestyle, I would be closer to that joy of feeling accepted and a lot less alone because I felt really dumb for not knowing about my money and I never really made peace with that. Even to this day, there's nothing I can really do about the fact that money came and went.
"I mean, you think you have this extravagant life and then real life hits you in the face," she explained, later adding,"I was not being taught how to manage my money. For example, when I was 21, I had a record deal. I had a book deal. And in that year I made just about a million dollars. And in that same year, I spent it."
"Maybe I am somebody that's wanting to open up to you so that you can learn from me. But I will say invest that money in ways that matter," she added."The tricky thing is that when you're young, you need to be taught the difference between an asset and liability. So a dollar can either make you more money or you're just giving it away. And so when those numbers started to go down, I felt like I needed to, like, just perform.