Tina Fey admits that SHE was the Mean Girl of her high school

We can credit the hilarious Tina Fey for bringing us perhaps the best teen comedy to ever grace our screens. 

Tina brought us the word fetch, introduced us to the concept of social suicide and made sure we never looked at a pair of gold hoop earrings in quite the same way. 

Oh and we can't get through any festive season without recreating that sexy routine to Jingle Bell Rock. 

But why did Mean Girls become such a resounding success and cultural phenomenon? Well, maybe it was because Tina Fey herself was a mean girl. 

In a recent interview with The Edit, the 45-year-old admitted that she was in fact the Regina George of her high school. 

"I was [the mean girl], I admit it openly."

"That was a disease that had to be conquered. It's another coping mechanism – it's a bad coping mechanism – but when you feel less than (in high school, everyone feels less than everyone else for different reasons), in your mind it's a way of levelling the playing field. Though of course it's not."

However, she still says that mean girls have the power to instil fear into her. 

"If I meet a girl of 14 or 15 today who is that kind of girl, I am secretly, in my body, afraid. Even though I'm 45."

Interesting. But onto more pressing issues like:  is butter a carb?