Before Manchild, Espresso, and e-mails I can’t send, a blonde-haired girl was going on her first headlining tour, the EVOLution tour in 2016. This was at the tail end of Girl Meets World days, and I was a massive Sabrina fan.

There was no one quite like her in the music industry. Her range is insane, and the talent she holds is unlike anyone in the world, and I still truly believe that. What she does with that talent is for another blog post, which you can read HERE.

I scored tickets to her Santa Ana, CA stop, where, yes, THE Sabrina Carpenter performed in the small town of Santa Ana at the Observatory. Her tickets were $27, and I was standing just a couple of feet away from her. I will tell this story for centuries!

Long story short, I did not get meet and greets. My best friend and I stood outside her bus, thinking she would come out, and she did not. Big surprise because everyone at that show was doing the same thing, and I’m sure the last thing she wanted to do was be in a pile of screaming teenage girls.

In the midst of all this, Sabrina was taking on the role of Wendy Darling at the Pasadena Playhouse’s production of Peter Pan and Tinkerbell: A Pirate’s Christmas, starring alongside Kevin Quinn, Chrissie Fit, John O’Hurley, Corey Fogelmanis, August Maturo, Parvesh Cheena, and Nikki Soohoo.

When I tell you this was the wildest and quirkiest play I have ever witnessed, believe me. Would I get tickets to see it again? One hundred percent! I don’t remember much about this play; I just remember it being absolutely wild. I’m sure there are videos on the internet if you want to see what I’m talking about.

Anyway, my friend and I got to the playhouse early, and I met Kevin Quinn, and he was so nice, and I had brought a limited edition hardcover of Peter Pan with me for the actors to sign, and still such a treasured item in my autograph collection.

After the play, my friend and I waited in this humongous line because we knew that most, if not all, the actors would be coming out. I have been to a lot of concerts, and I have met a lot of celebrities. Not once have I ever been in a more aggressive group of people than Sabrina Carpenter fans. Someone marked my favorite sweater with a permanent marker, and numerous people cut in line when Sabrina came out, and I had people shoving their way into my picture when I was literally standing next to Sabrina.

My friend finally pushed me in front of the line and snapped a quick picture of Sabrina and me. We had a super quick interaction, but Sabrina was the sweetest, even after doing two plays a day for I think two weeks. She was exhausted and kept asking people to please be kind and take one picture and leave because she just wanted to go to her afterparty with the rest of the cast.

I remember her giving me a big hug, and when I asked her to sign my book, she said, “this is gorgeous, where did you get it?” She signed it, we took our picture, and she said, “Thank you for coming, sweetheart, I appreciate it!”

I’m not sure how old she thought I was, but whatever! It was still an interaction I am so blessed I got to have, and I can say I met Sabrina way back when.