Normally, she avoided watching these sorts of gossipy sites. She had left that side of her back in high school when she decided to finally work on herself and stop worrying about what others were doing.
However, last night was the Oscars. She actively avoided watching it, but she couldn't help but want to view the results to see who the winners and losers were. What she wasn't expecting was the trending headline. It simply wasn't possible.
Youngest EGOT Winner Rachel Berry Overdoses After Big Win
With an article title like that, she couldn't help but click to read the full details. She told herself it was a way to satisfy her curiosity. What could drive someone to try and kill themselves after they've won an Oscar?
Without the slightest hesitation, she opened the article and quickly began to read about the elusive Rachel Berry.
Rachel Berry took home Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Original Song. Her adaptation of her Original Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award Winning Musical Shining Star took home nine awards last night. Ordinarily, someone in Rachel's position would be celebrating on a complete high of achieving such success at the tender age of 30.
However, last night a 9-1-1 call was made from her home where the young actress, singer, and writer was hosting an after party. A source close to the star revealed the Oscar winner overdosed and was found unconscious in her bedroom, while her party was happening downstairs.
No news about her condition has been released, but Rachel is currently at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center being treated with her family and close friends surrounding her. Her family plans to release a statement later today about her status, but in the meantime hopes fans will support their right to privacy.
Some will remember that she got her start on Broadway nearly ten years ago at the tender age of twenty in the revival of Funny Girl. Since then she's been a trail blazer with television appearances, movie roles, and a best-selling debut album. Then three years ago, Ms. Berry wrote and produced the story of her life. It was candid, bold, witty, and detailed her life growing up in Ohio with two gay fathers, the struggle of her mother appearing back in her life, her ambitious nature that often left her without friends, the bullying she suffered from her peers, the death of her former fiance, and how she wrestled with her own sexuality.
In interviews, Rachel has been open about not wanting to be type casted and that she battled with her sexuality because of what she'd grown up with. While she loves her fathers, she saw how people treated them and herself by being their child. She hated the idea of people feeding into the idea that her fathers were the reason she was attracted to women. It was something she heard regularly growing up in Ohio.
Rachel had been in a long term relationship with prominent actress and Emmy and Golden Globe Winner Quinn Fabray. The two had gone to high school together and if Shining Star is anything to go by had a turbulent relationship full of ups and downs with the two struggling to come to terms with their feelings.
As you'll already know, Quinn Fabray jump started her career after she was cast in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy The Thirteenth Sign after getting her degree in theater at Yale. She stayed on for three seasons before moving into drama on Fighting Freedom as the tough as nails lawyer Abigail Peters where she earned two Emmy's, a Golden Globe, and a SAG award. While starring on the show, she starred in her first motion picture The Great Divide. She received her first nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
She came out five years ago when she announced her relationship with Rachel Berry by attending the Academy Awards with Ms. Berry as her date. The two broke-up two years after that, and as far as anyone can tell wish each other well but haven't maintained any contact.
Rachel has had a few relationships since, but nothing lasting longer than a few months. For the last year, she has remained single and focused more on her career. She has opted to stay out of the spotlight and spends more of her time back in New York. Rumors had surfaced she was in the studio working on her second album, but we will have to wait and see. In the meantime, we wish Rachel a speedy recovery and all the best for the future.
We will provide updates as soon as we can.
Tears fell in reckless abandon as she read the article. It couldn't be true, but as she went back to the previous page, she clicked on Rachel's picture with the trending icon. Several articles had already been published about the starlet's current status.
She should've been there for her, but here she was across town silently weeping over someone she willingly allowed to walk out of her life. She was a coward.