Leighton Meester is featured in the new issue of UsWeekly.

The 22-year-old actress who is famous for playing Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl tells the magazine that her rough upbringing “makes me very nonjudgmental and open-minded, and I think it just makes me appreciate the things that I have now.”

As for her mother who was in jail when she gave birth to her famous daughter, Leighton says “she’s always there for me no matter what, I swear, that woman knows everything.”