Rachel Bloom won the Best Actress in a TV Comedy award at Sunday’s Golden Globes for her role as the title character in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a CW musical-comedy about a woman moving across the country after briefly reuniting with a boyfriend from her childhood.

“We almost didn’t have a show,” Bloom began in her tearful acceptance speech. “We made a pilot for another network and they rejected it … We got six rejections in one day and we felt like crap but we knew it was good.” Bloom went on to credit CW president Mark Pedowitz for taking a chance on Crazy, along with co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna, who “saw my YouTube videos and two and a half years later I’m standing on this stage with a Golden Globe.”

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Bloom writes for and executive-produces the series along with McKenna, which was initially going to be a half-hour show on Showtime before ultimately landing at The CW and getting bumped up to an hour.