This is chapter seven, Leeches. We have reached into the dyke erotica part of the book, with Ellen narrating her sexual encounters and unpleasant sexual experiences she had when starting as an actress, so probably I'll have most of the hard stuff written in spoilers when they appear.
She starts the chapter by mentioning that now that she was an actress, she couldn't deal with having her parents nagging her on the set, she felt distracted everytime they appeared to film something. She probably didn't want the father in the sets.
And her mother was already feeling that the sexual preferences of her little girl might be different, so she started to show concerns, something that Ellen noticed during that time.
But the most important thing for now, she didn't wanted her around, I have the feeling that this probably have more obscure motives that she didn't mention in the book. But I digress.
We then met her first friends and possibly enablers, some horse wranglers that worked for Pit Pony, she mentions that this is one of the first times that she was starting to feel more liberated and with more freedom in her life. And narrate the experience she would have with them, and how she was more comfortable on looking like a boy.
And of course, she shits on her parents a little more, feeling that she was starting to endure a liberty never felt before and she was better off without them.
And here is when the plot gets nasty, she mentions the director who groomed her when she was alone in the world of acting. And basically how Hollywood was already starting to corrupt her in the most horrible way possible, even though she doesn't outright says it.
What more can I say, except yikes.
She then mentions about starring her first important movie role, her role in Hard Candy. A movie about a teenager (her) killing a pedophile in a particularly brutal way.
And in an ugly level of irony that would make Franz Kafka blush, just when she attended a party for finishing the filming of the movie, she mentions that someone that was a "crosswords puzzle buddy" of hers, raped her that night in her apartment.
After that pleasant read, we go to another timeskip to Ellen having eighteen years old. This time, another crew member, this time a woman, asked her if she was interested to go to apartment hunting (whatever that means) for the weekend. And Ellen, wanting to have a break for staying always alone in her hotel, accepted. And then they went to an apartment to see what could be better for her, the staff of the apartment waited in the entrance, the two went alone to the room of the apartment and uh... Yeah, you can see where this is going.
As you can see, another person took advantage to her, buuut, this was a woman who made the job this time. And implying that she has done this many times, one could say that she succesfully groomed her. And let me repeat that she was only in her 18.
And after she came back, this groomer reappeared again to her life. And tried to win her back again when she was out, and asking her about the fun times they had.
And the only thing that Ellen could say to her, to end the chapter.
I think I need a shower after reading all of this, just what the fuck.
