(CNN) — Belinda coming into some serious money in Season 3 of “The White Lotus” has everyone thinking about what they’d do with a similar windfall.

For Emmy-nominee Natasha Rothwell – who famously portrayed resort wellness employee Belinda in both the first and third seasons of the acclaimed Mike White-created satirical series – the idea prompted a candid and emotional story about her personal finances before she earned her first big paycheck in the arts.

In a recent interview with CNN’s Elizabeth Wagmeister, Rothwell explained how she paid off her college loans with that paycheck, but it was what she did before she had the money that was interesting.

“I wrote a check to myself for like $40,000, because that would pay pay off my student loans, or a portion of it, and I just carried

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