to be fair, there's nothing in that interview about how rachel found out. i honestly don't know one way or the other, but i do know that when i read the news about her exit yesterday, i immediately checked her twitter and her last tweet from one hour previously mentioned nothing about the firing. which isn't to say that she didn't already know before that tweet and was simply remaining quiet until the official announcement, or that maybe the word came to her in that hour between the time i checked out her twitter. but since messer doesn't state explicitly that rachel was notified before the media was, we still don't know for sure.