“That anxiety I used to, like, wake up every morning, truly for my whole life, this sense of something going wrong, this sense of dread and doom … Was everything that I’d done to that point a lie? What does it do to my narrative?”
Katja Blichfeld started 2017 with one tattoo, but after the two she’s getting today, she’ll end the year with eight. She’s standing outside the shop on Roebling Street, FaceTiming with her girlfriend as she waits for her appointment, and wearing a boxy quilted jacket, pale high-waisted jeans, and off-white leather shoes. Her white-blonde hair gleams in the sun. When we head inside, she takes off the jacket to reveal a black T-shirt printed with a photograph of Tupac and Marilyn Monroe.
This month, High Maintenance — the show that Blichfeld co-created with her ex-husband, Ben Sinclair — will begin airing its second season on HBO. Each episode centers on a different client buying weed from a dealer known only as the Guy, played by Sinclair.
While the divorce has been painful, none of Blichfeld’s friends or family members were shocked, either. Even her parents, who are no longer religious, have been supportive. Katja — joking, but also not — describes the breakup as a true “conscious uncoupling.” After splitting up, they spent the next seven months working 70-hour weeks at each others’ sides, which Sinclair calls “exposure therapy.” They share a manager and an assistant.
Since coming out, she’s also smoking less weed. Thanks to her early anti-drug programming, Blichfeld came to weed late, in her mid-20s, but then made up for lost time: As she dealt with anxiety and depression, she started a regular habit that soon included waking up and getting high, gaining such a high tolerance that she had to smoke what now seems to her to be mind-boggling amounts. “I didn’t want to feel my feelings all the time,” she says.
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