I’ve never had siblings, I didn’t grow up in a big family it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

Rossum contrasts a quiet, small household—being an only child raised by a single mother—with her later attraction to the noise and chaos of larger, messier family systems. The line suggests that what is absent in childhood can become an object of longing: “dysfunction” here reads less as a desire for harm than as a craving for the intensity, constant interaction, and sense of belonging that a crowded family can provide. It also hints at how personal background can shape an actor’s emotional imagination—why a performer might feel drawn to stories (and roles) centered on turbulent family dynamics, because they supply a kind of community and friction she didn’t experience at home.