On a 2023 episode of Call Her Daddy, Reneé opened up about how her experience filming Season 1 was “terrible.” “The first year doing College Girls was terrible. It was terrible,” she said. “It sucked so bad because at the time, I was in a heteronormative relationship. I hated going to work, because I was like, ‘I don’t think I’m like good enough to be here. I don’t think I can be here. I don’t think I can be doing this.’ I was like, ‘Maybe I’m just trying too hard.’ And then I would come home, and I would psych myself out, literally.”
She added, “Also, I’m on a show [where] there are a lot of men around… There are a lot of gay men around. There are a lot of straight men around. There are a lot of older men around me on set. So I’m going through set, doing these scenes, and I’m also having gay men come up to me and be like, ‘So are you, like, really gay?’ I was like, ‘Ugh!’… It really fucking pissed me off, and it made me second guess everything about myself.”
In a social media statement, she said she loves her character Leighton and that playing her “changed [her] life.” Reneé will continue as a recurring character in a few episodes of Season 3 until her departure later in the season.
