See, it's not that she was the type to physically hurt her kid, it was more just, she kept forgetting she was a mom. The first eight years of Ezrha’s life, this was all fine. She had her grandparents who loved her, cared for her, and pretty much did all the things her mother never would. Unfortunately, when Ezrha was getting close to nine, her grandmother passed away and her grandfather's health had declined enough that he needed to be put in a home that no one could afford. A year later he died of some combination of health problems and a broken heart. At ten, Ezrha wasn't just the adult in the household, she had absolutely no supervision. Ezrha could more or less do whatever she wanted, whenever. Whenever her mother tried to play the "mom" card, Ezrha just threw it back in her face. No amount of pleading, yelling, or threatening her daughter would work, because Ezrha had a laundry list a mile long of serious bouts of neglect. So it was no surprise to anyone that her mother in turn did fuck all to help raise the girl, preferring to pretend they were sisters rather than mother and daughter.
By Ezrha's junior year in high school, she was failing majority of her classes due to how little she attended school. This was just fine with Rey, because she had it in her head that she herself would become a famous actress. With next to no money, Rey pulled Ezrha out of school, packed up their things, and moved them to Los Angeles to live with her sister. As one would imagine, Rey struggled with the business. Eventually she had to resort to other means to land roles, but only found the kind of success that resulted in those rip off of rip off horror films. Her daughter on the other hand caught the eye of Catherine Hardwicke down in Venice one day. The director was scouting the skateboard community for her upcoming, Lords of Dogtown when she found Ezrha smoking weed with a bunch of skateboarders. She'd developed an interest in casting the then seventeen year old due to how she handled the attentions of the crowd she was surrounded by, and how easily she wrapped them around her little finger. And so it was that Ezrha was discovered, while her mom had to hit the casting couch just to land an audition.
The thing was, Ezrha had never known what she wanted from life. The trouble she'd caused or found herself in the midst of always went back to boredom. Acting felt like a game. An acceptable and glorified way to engage in manipulation. Ways to poke and prod at others from behind a mask, and if she was lucky enough, maybe the role would even let her poke and prod at herself. Catherine became a cheerleader for Ezrha, the sort of hippie mom Rey had always longed to be. With some guidance and help, Ezrha was working along side a prestigious acting coach. A couple months later, she was signed with an agent and booking auditions all over town. Despite the jealousy that Rey harbored, she wanted to capitalize on Ezrha's success, so she played the game. In turn, Ezrha got away with murder.
There was little to question in Catherine Hardwicke's mind when it came to casting the role of Bella Swan, however, there was quite a lot for Ezrha to. Didn't she want the money? The notoriety? Didn't she trust Catherine? On an honest day, Ezrha would admit she's very concerned that she picked the wrong path that day. The money from Disturbia had proven to been solid. She had a lot of things going for her, she kind of liked this acting thing and for the first time in her life she wasn't that bored and she wasn't even setting shit on fire or doing large quantities of drugs. The turn though, happened in the blink of an eye. The fame happened in a blink of an eye. Every door that had ever been closed to her was suddenly open. Nothing felt real, and Ezrha couldn't resist testing life's boundaries.
And so the train went off the rails. DUI? Got out of it with enough cash. Diva behavior on set? She could deflect to the press and come across more human. Paparazzi trailing her every move? More scripts piled onto her agent's desk. Whatever she did, it only earned her more attention. So why would she stop?
Well, Steve McQueen was a good reason to stop. After she more or less stalked him and begged him for a chance at the role, he let her know he'd only take a chance on her if she cleaned up her act. So she went to rehab. And for awhile, she really did get her shit together, only that all went out the window when she reconnected with a long time ex and followed him back down the rabbit hole. And so it went. She'd clean up her act for her career, then toss it all away when it came time to be a person again.
Only, enough times around the block with a threat to her career put her on the straight and narrow. Warner Brothers offered her a chance at her dream role, but she had to abide by the strictest sobriety clause in the free world. This push was enough to give her incentive to clean up and really get her shit together again.
November 2007 - Hardwicke casts Queen as Bella Swan. Internet loses it.
2008-2012 - TWiLiGhT mAniA!!!111
July 2009 - Stories from The Runaways set include ones about Queen and Joan Jett smoking weed & doing shots in her trailer for hours.
September 2009 - Rey Queen (her mother) contacts the press "out of concern" for her daughter. Reveals a drug riddled past.
November 2009 - Just in time for the release of New Moon, Queen and co-star are outted as a couple. On the red carpet, Queen appears intoxicated and is more interested in her co-star than the press ala Angelina Jolie circa Billy Bob.
January 2010 - Queen is arrested on a drunken driving charge after she lost control of her car and struck a curb in Beverly Hills. She checks into a rehab center.
Feb 2010 - She pleads guilty to misdemeanor cocaine use and driving under the influence. The actress is sentenced to serve one day in jail, 10 days of community service and three years of probation; to pay a fine; and to enter an alcohol education program.
April 2010 - Leaves her rehab program.
May 10, 2010 - Serves one day in a Los Angeles County jail.
June 14, 2010 - During Twilight promo Jimmy Kimmel jokingly asks Queen if she'd make him a vampire, she bites his neck.
September 15th, 2010 - Queen is hospitalized for undisclosed reasons. A year later she would admit she'd attempted suicide. Quietly begins therapy.
October 31, 2010 - TMZ leaks a video of Queen stumbling out of a nightclub in a Mia Wallace costume, extremely wasted and tries to fight a photographer until her boyfriend picks her up and carries her away.
November 2010 - Breaking Dawn begins filming. Queen's contract was adapted to instate a sobriety policy in exchange for her not being recast during the run of filming.
Feb 14th 2011 - Hackers strike! Nude photos, same sex lip-lock videos, sexy & kinky texts, and an entire novel worth of mommy issues come out. All contract negotiations about her sobriety are revealed, and Queen's tumultuous relationship with Summit Entertainment is uncovered. Press releases about Queen's love of the company and her love of Bella Swan are widely mocked.
July 4th 2011 - Queen is arrested for showing up at her co-star and ex's house with a gun. He doesn't press charges and denies that Queen fired at him. The focus is pulled to her drug and alcohol problem.
August 2011 - A Beverly Hills judge extends Queen's probation for her drunken driving conviction for a year to give her more time to complete a required alcohol counseling program. Queen is warned that she will go to jail if she hears the actress hasn't been attending meetings, or if any of the reports about her assault on her ex are deemed true.
September 1, 2011 - Queen is released from rehab
September 4, 2011 - Shame premieres at Venice to the best reviews of her career thus far. Queen talks about the struggles of getting cast in the movie due to her public behavior, but that a three hour coffee meeting with McQueen ultimately changed his mind. Queen is open about her own suicide attempts and her recent trip through rehab.
October 7 2011 - Queen confirmed to be dating musician, Glen Pearson (The Reverend), when he appears on her arm at the New York Film Festival premiere of Shame.
January 26, 2012 - The Reverend's "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings" music video is released starring Queen. Rumors swarm about the song being inspired by the two's antics in cemeteries.
February 19, 2012 - Radar Online posts a video of Queen philosophizing about various conspiracy theories including Lizard People and her general paranoia about the paparazzi. Her words slur, most of what she's saying sounds like nonsense, and spends half of the eight minute video intermittently making out with Pearson.
February 22, 2012 - Queen's mother approaches the media once more and gives multiple interviews about how sad she is for her daughter, how they have a terrible relationship, and how her daughter isn't taking rehab seriously.
April 02, 2012 - Queen storms on stage at one of The Reverend's shows, proceeds to assault Pearson and damage some of his equipment. It takes three security guards to get her off the stage. Reports come back that she was screaming about him cheating on her. Videos of the incident as well as those of her being escorted away by the cops flood the internet
April 13, 2012 - Pearson does not press charges, Queen is released from jail after only eight hours.
April 29, 2012 - Queen is back in court for violating her probation and forced to go through an anger management program, owes 480 hours of community service and is to remain under house arrest for sixty days.
Summer 2012 - Queen is dropped by CAA. She cleans house with the rest of her team. By the end of the summer she’s signed with Gersh and has an entirely new team that puts her image into rehab.
October 18, 2012 - Barbara Walters interviews Queen as part of her great "apology tour." She speaks very candidly about her struggles with sobriety, depression, and paranoia that the constant stalking of paparazzi had created.
Fall 2012-Spring 2013 - In-between filming with Terrance Malick for Weightless, Queen spends most of her community service time working with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention as well as Phoenix House (a charity dedicated to helping men, women, & teens on the road to recovery from addiction).
August 29 2013 - Under the Skin premieres at Telluride; critics go nuts for her performance.
Fall-Winer 2013 - Queen works the festival circuit like a pro. She's class from head to toe, her sound bites on talk shows give her the appearance of someone whose had their fair share of humble pie and Queen catches the eye of director Olivier Assayas who not just casts her in Clouds of Sils Maria but uses her past as a spring board for his film.
January 2014 - Queen films future Sundance hit, Z for Zachariah
March 02, 2014 - Queen quietly checks into a rehab center without a public incident; leaves twenty days later.
Summer 2014 - Shawn Johnson, a thirty-eight year old ex-paparazzi, is taken to court for stalking Queen. Details reveal that he's been stalking her since 2012. He's convicted and sentenced to jail time.
Fall 2014 - Ezrha films the adaptation of Emma Donoghue's Room
December 2, 2014 - Suicide Squad finds their Harley Quinn. Queen jokes about the casting news, "Trust me, Harley fans, one look into my past and you gotta know I can pull this shitt off."
Feb 20, 2015 - Queen becomes the first American actress to win a Cesar. She cries for the first full minute at the podium and gives one of the most eloquent speeches of her career.
May 11, 2015 - Variety announces that Spielberg has cast her in the adaptation of photojournalist Lynsey Addario's much sought after memoir, It's What I Do.
June 11, 2015 - Queen wows at Comic Con. Becomes the singularly most talked about member of the Suicide Squad cast.
