CA- Body (IDd as Celeste Rivas Hernandez) found in vehicle at Hollywood tow yard, abandoned Tesla registered to singer D4vd – 8 September 2025

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Yes, cellphones have area codes in the U.S. I'm in NYC and back when I got my phone in the '90s, we had the 917 area code used for cellphones overlaying all five boroughs, while landlines were 212 in Manhattan and 718 everywhere else in NYC. Now we have several other area codes, but at one time if someone said their number started with 212, you knew it was a landline in Manhattan. I don't know how it works in Texas, but it's possible you can still tell if a number is a cell or a landline by the area code, and the police may also use some sort of advanced caller ID to tell if the call is from a cell or a landline.
My only reference to this is a Seinfeld episode where they talk about the area code politics 🤣.
We have a similar situation here for landlines (country code, state code then local phone number) but mobiles/cellphones are not as informative in the lay out.
I think you used to be able to guess providers from the first four digits of the number but not so much now.

My guess is the brother has a burner phone.

IMOO
 
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I think it reflects her cultural and socioeconomic environment, where kids are exposed to adult dynamics much earlier than what’s typically considered normal. A serious relationship that would make her feel safe. It may also reflect what she endured and made her run away... kids don’t run away from a happy and loving home. MOO JMO
Just a note: Grooming can happen to a child whether or not there is trauma or abuse in their homes of origins. Kids can still be lured away by predators even without issues at home. I just wanted to point this out.
 
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Sheriff Deputies Called to Home 11 Times in a Year... 3 Times in One Day
Deputies repeatedly responded to her house in Lake Elsinore, California between February 2024 and April 2025, according to police records, obtained by TMZ. And get this ... cops say deputies visited Celeste's home THREE times in a single day -- March 19, 2024.
That's the same date on the surveillance video TMZ obtained from a liquor store on the same block as the family home. Celeste's sister went to the store after Celeste ran away, and checked to see if she was on the video.​
Most if not all of those 11 calls were probably related to the times she ran away from home. I find it interesting how TMZ apparently shifted the discourse drastically regarding Celeste; it almost seems like they're trying to make her and her family look bad. I expect even worse things about her and the family to be released in the coming days.​
 
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My only reference to this is a Seinfeld episode where they talk about the area code politics 🤣.
We have a similar situation here for landlines (country code, state code then local phone number) but mobiles/cellphones are not as informative in the lay out.
I think you used to be able to guess providers from the first four digits of the number but not so much now.

My guess is the brother has a burner phone.

IMOO
Poor Elaine got switched from 212 to 646 and when a guy asked for her number, she gave it to him, and he crumpled it up!
 
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Just a note: Grooming can happen to a child whether or not there is trauma or abuse in their homes of origins. Kids can still be lured away by predators even without issues at home. I just wanted to point this out.
Agreed. In addition, if she was 13 yrs of age at the time, he would have been 18 yrs of age. So why is he meeting up with her? jmo
 
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the number was not one the parents recognized, had an out of state area code, but LEO says that number pinged from their address. So the Burkes had LEO check their property just to be sure nobody was lurking or wishing them harm. Very odd. How did swatter get the phone to ping as if it was at their home if swatter wasn't?
Couldn't some kid have been hanging out on the street by their house or lurking on their property, hiding behind a car or something, using probably a burner phone to make the swat call, and the ping would look like it was at their house? Are pings that precise? Would pinging "at their house" look the same as pinging "very near their house?"

Around here (and I assumed it was the same nationwide), area codes wouldn't tell you if it's a cell or landline, because they all use the same ones if they're in, or if they originate from, this area. BUT, if you've lived here awhile, especially if you were familiar with phone numbers here BEFORE we got cell phones, you can usually make a good guess whether a phone number is cell or landline, but you don't look at the area code, you look at the prefix. The first 3 numbers after the area code. If it's a landline, the prefix tells you the area of town that it's in, and you can get pretty accurate, within a few miles, sometimes less. But if it's a cell phone (or VoIP), the prefix wouldn't tell me anything, because there's so many and AFAICT, they're not tied to any certain area like landline prefixes are. But the area codes will still all be one of the few designated to our state. UNLESS it's a cell phone that someone brought here from another area code. They'd still have "foreign" area codes, until they change to a local one, but you don't ever have to. They all work everywhere now.
 
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Assuming this is Celeste (I recall some back and forth on that), I think it’s more so a reflection that she didn’t see David as much older or their relationship as non-consensual. Consider how often people will comment on a perpetrator’s appearance when they’re charged with a crime, particularly rape — those comments are overwhelming. She probably just thought of Epstein as a gross old man, and didn’t relate it to her situation at all.
I think it is reasonably clear that Celeste probably thought herself to be much older and more capable than was actually the case, and that no one in D4vd's entourage had an interest in contradicting her.

Beyond that, Celeste possibly coming from a troubled background should not surprise anyone. Runaways usually happen when people are actively running away from a situation. The idea that she might have been looking for a sort of security and stability that was not available in her home, for whatever reason makes perfect sense to me. It is just a tragedy that her search ended so horribly.
 
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Heres another interesting coincidence.

6 September tesla towed, same day he writes "i start media training tomorrow guys wish me luck"..
- the next day was CRs birthday.

He already said to CR in a live stream that he'd "media trained" her so Im intrigued at his use of buzzwords since we know what came out in the following days.

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I think all of these things are too incredibly timed not to be considered.

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So ive never heard of that artist he used in the post on 6 September before either and have a look at the similarities here. Star stickers on the face, anime, another skinny sad young man singing about "little girls"

a song galled "Marcelene" has lyrics:
"Marcelene is it just you and me in the wreckage of the world?
that must be so confusing for a little girl
(indecipherable)
but im losing myself and i think i might lose you too
this magic keeps me alive and its making me crazy
and i need to save you but whos gonna save me"
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Havnt had time to do a proper look at his accounts but I think DAB considers this person a cultural influence.

Thoughts?
That song Marceline, is from Adventure Time, an animated show on Cartoon Network. Marceline is a little girl in then cartoon, that was left alone after armeggadon happened.

It is actually a heartfelt positive song in the show. It's weird it is being covered here though.
 
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That song Marceline, is from Adventure Time, an animated show on Cartoon Network. Marceline is a little girl in then cartoon, that was left alone after armeggadon happened.

It is actually a heartfelt positive song in the show. It's weird it is being covered here though.
It's the lyrics I thought were very interesting and probably relatable to DAB but it was mentioned once as an interesting aside 🤣
instead of dismissing it and moving on, anyone who thinks it's irrelevant keeps saying it's irrelevant which continues it being a topic instead of actually talking about something they do think is relevant. IMOO
 
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I think it is reasonably clear that Celeste probably thought herself to be much older and more capable than was actually the case, and that no one in D4vd's entourage had an interest in contradicting her.

Beyond that, Celeste possibly coming from a troubled background should not surprise anyone. Runaways usually happen when people are actively running away from a situation. The idea that she might have been looking for a sort of security and stability that was not available in her home, for whatever reason makes perfect sense to me. It is just a tragedy that her search ended so horribly.

Her life could have been tumultuous at home, but I really don't think it would have to be.

Think about it, if she met him in 2021/2ish through some game and he started to groom her in discord when she was 10/11. She would have met him when he was barely starting to make a splash for his music. She would have been there for his whole crazy rise - as his special secret girl. To a little girl with no perspective, it would have seemed exactly like a fairytale.

Her family life could have been fine, ordinary. It wouldn't have been hollywood and millions and fame and glamour and the high intensity star crossed secret 'love story' and eventual celebrity life he promised her (and the fear of loosing him.) The grip he would have on her would have been extraordinary, no matter how good a family life she had.

I am sure her family wasn't perfect. Maybe they did have problems, or gave up getting her back, or took money or whatever. At the same time though, I have no doubt that any ordinary family would have had trouble holding onto her when he had that kind of pull. And the more they fought to keep her away from him, the more it would have strained her relationship with them.
 
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Her life could have been tumultuous at home, but I really don't think it would have to be.

Think about it, if she met him in 2021/2ish through some game and he started to groom her in discord when she was 10/11. She would have met him when he was barely starting to make a splash for his music. She would have been there for his whole crazy rise - as his special secret girl. To a little girl with no perspective, it would have seemed exactly like a fairytale.

Her family life could have been fine, ordinary. It wouldn't have been hollywood and millions and fame and glamour and the high intensity star crossed secret 'love story' and eventual celebrity life he promised her (and the fear of loosing him.) The grip he would have on her would have been extraordinary, no matter how good a family life she had.

I am sure her family wasn't perfect. Maybe they did have problems, or gave up getting her back, or took money or whatever. At the same time though, I have no doubt that any ordinary family would have had trouble holding onto her when he had that kind of pull. And the more they fought to keep her away from him, the more it would have strained her relationship with them.
I'm starting to wonder more about his home life.

Why would an educator and a litigation support manager prevent their child from secular education and socialising in normal ways? Why are they not monitoring his online activities.
Why don't they know what their underage son is up to?
Was he groomed to be like he is? Is Daddy helping him or teaching him with his knowledge of the law or is he acting out a fantasy of someone else's for them?

What's happening at home for him to create this alternative world filled with murder, pain and gore?

Why is he watching such gore- further back a picture shows him saying it's like p**n to him.

Was he removed from school because of social issues? Did he ever attend school?

I think we need to ask a lot more questions about them and him. IMOO
 
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Missing 13-year-old FOUND: Dismembered, Decomposing, in D4vd's Tesla​


September 23, 2025 • 50 mins
On Sept. 8, the Los Angeles Police Department was called to a tow yard in Hollywood over reports of a foul odor coming from a vehicle. The LAPD found decomposing, dismembered, human remains, wrapped in a bag hidden in the front trunk area of a tesla registered in Hempstead, Texas, to 20-year-old, David Anthony Burke. He is known by another name as one of the hottest singer/songwriters on the planet, D4vd. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the victim and how she ended up in the Tesla owned by D4vd. The car was towed from the street in front of the house where D4vd was staying in the Hollywood Hills. When the human remains found in his car were identified, she turned out to be a girl who went missing when she was just 13-years-old. Her name was Celeste Rivas Hernandez, from Lake Elsinore, 70 miles away from where her body was found.

Episode Transcript​

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Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah, and that's that's the most important thing, because
clues rest in. I think that some of the clues dave,
at least for me, rest in her age, because, as
you have said more eloquently than anybody I have ever

(32:39):
come in contact with in the media. You told me
this several years ago, and I have never forgotten it.
You told me that if you are not an adult
and you have sex with someone that is an adult

(33:03):
that ain't sex, that's rape and sexual assault. Anytime we
have a very young person, Dave that we cover on here,

(33:25):
the big question I always have to ask is what
did a child, because she's thirteen when she went missing? Okay,
what did a child do to somebody that would have

(33:46):
them react with such a level of rage towards this
child as to bring about her death and then desecrate
her remains in death? Who out there would have this

(34:07):
kind of level of anger? That's that's the big question
in that, Dave. Now you think about that, you know
who I mean. I don't know when you were thirteen fourteen.
When I was thirteen or fourteen, Yeah, I had problems
with people I was growing up with. You know, it

(34:27):
might wind up in a scuffle whoever. You know, who knows.
But there's not a whole lot of people out there
that are looking to murder a child.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Of this age.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
I just I don't understand it. So I think our
field gets narrowed down here pretty quickly.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
I want to share something with you because I went
back and looked at the missing person that was
put up last seeing Lake Elson, Or California, aged thirteen,
Her date of birth September seventh, twenty ten. All right,
when they put this missing person flyer out, she was

(35:08):
described as five foot three, one hundred and twenty pounds
right here right last scene, wearing gray pants and a
black sweater, a hat and hello, Kitty Sandals, that's the
little girl. Okay, yeah, go, five three, one hundred and
twenty pounds. I got the description of what they found

(35:29):
in the car, five foot two.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
Seventy one pounds.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Well, let me, okay, before we go down this road,
just like me.

 
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I'm starting to wonder more about his home life.

Why would an educator and a litigation support manager prevent their child from secular education and socialising in normal ways? Why are they not monitoring his online activities.
Why don't they know what their underage son is up to?
Was he groomed to be like he is? Is Daddy helping him or teaching him with his knowledge of the law or is he acting out a fantasy of someone else's for them?

I think we need to ask a lot more questions about them and him. IMOO
There was some lyrics in songs where D4vd makes references to 'something' happening in 2016. Online it says he was pulled out in 7th grade. He was born 28th March 2005. So 7th grade for him would have been 2017/18. Which could make sense if there was some incident in late 2016 and they pulled him out at the end of the school year.

He would also have been 11 which is kinda interesting considering that's about the age Celeste was when he (allegedly) met her.

I'm not the same kid I was in 2016
I was young, I was dumb
Now I overthink things
That I shouldn't, I couldn't
You wouldn't believe what I did as a kid back in
2016


Then there was another leaked song.
November 2016, I was selling at the high school
Nobody ever caught me, but I spoke too soon in the back of a police car.

I forgot whatever I knew.
I’m not telling anything.
Do the same if they ask you about her.”


I don't know if anyone has dug up exactly why he ended up homeschooled, or if he has ever given a reason. The lyrics to this suggest he might have been going off the rails.

As for being unsupervised on the internet. Two busy, affluent but uninvolved parents isn't that unusual. If he was occupying himself in his room and not being any trouble, I could see him getting to do what he wanted on the internet unsupervised.
 
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There was some lyrics in songs where D4vd makes references to 'something' happening in 2016. Idk if that correlates to when he was pulled out of school. Online it says he was pulled out in 7th grade, though idk if that was during, after or before that school year. He would have been 11 which is kinda interesting considering that's about the age Celeste was.

I'm not the same kid I was in 2016
I was young, I was dumb
Now I overthink things
That I shouldn't, I couldn't
You wouldn't believe what I did as a kid back in
2016



Then there was a snippet of another song.
Nobody ever caught me, but I spoke too soon in the back of a police car.
I forgot whatever I knew.
I’m not telling anything.
Do the same if they ask you about her.”


I don't know if anyone has dug up exactly why he ended up homeschooled, or if he has ever given a reason.

As for being unsupervised on the internet. Two busy, affluent but uninvolved parents isn't that unusual. If he was occupying himself in his room and not being any trouble, I could see him getting to do what he wanted on the internet unsupervised.
Wow I think that's very relevant IMOO
 
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By the seems.
It even looks like 50 show her the phone number that called it in: "that's not a Texas number" "that's an out of state number" so how can a not Texas number call from a Texas property?

Do cell phones have area codes in the US?

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The link to the images was in the above comment being responded to?
 
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Episode Transcript​

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(35:29):
in the car, five foot two.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
Seventy one pounds.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
That's why I wanted you to break down. Oh, that's possible,
because there's got to be an explanation for.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Losing There is, there is, And let me kind of
explain this to you and just brace yourself for what
I'm about to say. All right, let's go to height.
The height there they are measuring this body. And the
way we make as bodies in the morgue is from
heel to crown. So from the heel to the top
of the head. All right, that's how bodies are measured. Now,

(36:11):
what do we know about her or what do we
know about these remains? Well, it's pretty obvious they have
they've been dismembered. Is it possible to lose an inch
of height during that Yes, it is, because we don't
know that you have all of the components. Let's just say,
let's just say that a quarter of an inch of

(36:34):
bone drops out when you're sawing through the bone. It
becomes bone dust, and you're having to do this multiple times.
It's not beyond it's not beyond understanding that you know
you would lose overall length or height of a body.

(36:55):
That's pretty reasonable. But how do you get from one
hundred plus pounds down to double digits. Well, here's
how it happens. They've she's been deceased for a while.
She has literally been cooking in that car or wherever
other locations she may have been prior to being placed
in the car. Part of her remains at this After

(37:24):
this amount of time, with this much heat exposed to her,
the body will take on a liquid quality, all right,
and you're going to lose some of that weight. So
if it's contained in a bag, you'll lose a lot
of the body that has been reduced down. You've also

(37:45):
got dehydration of the tissues. Remember, a lot of the
weight that we carry in life is in fact water.
Weight and in death too. And just think about the
ultimate dehydrator. Can you imagine being in a trunk in
LA during the summertime, just even if you were in

(38:08):
that in that location, living inside of a trunk, you're
a living person placed inside the trunk in the direct sunlight.
You're gonna lose maybe a couple of pounds just
in waterweight because you're gonna sweat it out. It's gonna
be like being in asauna. How much more so where
you've got constant exposure and decompositional breakdown. The cells are

(38:31):
all collapsing now and they become liquefied to a certain extent,
You'll still have some tissue that remains behind. And this
is one of the huge things here that I think
is very important. With who is now positively identified as
Celeste Revas, they have ruled her death, her manner of

(38:59):
death as a high homicide, but they still have yet
to come up with a cause. Well, one of the
reasons they don't have a cause, I think at this
point is that there's been so many tissue changes within
her that let's just say she's choked out, all right.
That it's a very personal thing where somebody's wrapped their

(39:21):
hands around her throat, and then you give you give
credence to this post mortem manipulation of the body those
dependent upon And I have no knowledge of this. I'm
just throwing this scenario out there. Let's just say you
go to dismember the body and one of the things

(39:43):
that I have yet to have a dismemberment case that
I've even either covered or worked where they didn't go
for the head first. That's generally how it works, all right.
So if you're removing a head, that means that somewhere
along the neck you're going to have to go into
that area with an instrument to separate it from the body. Well,

(40:06):
because you're doing that, any kind of artifact that's in
the neck, particularly when it's a long term decomposition, can
compromise the presentation. You can't really in or rule out anything.
The reason they're coming up with homicide as a manner, Dave,
is that the question I think that you have to

(40:28):
ask philosophically is who in the world dismembers the thirteen
or well, we don't know she would be fifteen. Who
in the world would dismember her? And you said they're
going to rule this as a homicide, you know, but
do we actually have evidence of specific homicidal trauma right now?

(40:52):
The LA County Corner has not released any of that.
I'm hoping that they will. I can tell you this
when they finally removed those remains from that trunk, Dave,
and I'm imagining the body. I'm imagining that they would

(41:15):
have taken out each individual this member remain, like whether
it's a foot, a lower leg, upper leg, head, and
they're going to x ray each one of those. And
this is a messy, messy affair, by the way, this
is not a standard kind of event, because you're dealing
with tissue that's so degraded that it's got a real

(41:38):
kind of oily, greasy feel to it. It's no longer
in this kind of firm state that you have with
with fresh remains, And so they would x ray every
single thing. Why would they x ray every single thing? Because, dude,
you cannot just simply look at the tissue and say, aha,

(41:58):
this is what brought about death. You've got to look
internally in this horrible mass that's left behind with an
X ray to see, is there a bullet track? Do
I have a lead storm, you know, which we'll see
many times if somebody's shot, you'll see this kind of
lead storm where the round particulates inside the body and

(42:19):
you can follow a trail. Are there any broken bones
in here that are not associated with the act of dismemberment?
You know, I want to know if she's had her
ribs broken or and we can delineate that. And the
more you say, well, how do you know that that
wasn't as a result of of dismemberment, Well, there are

(42:43):
ways that you can actually examine the bone and tell
if at a microscopic level, you can actually tell if
this is if this is something that was in the
anti mortem or perry mortem state while she's dying, as
opposed to ya, he broke broke a rib while he was,
you know, trying to figure out how to use the

(43:04):
saws all or the skill saw or the hacksaw or
the limbsaw or whatever it was.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
That he used.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Now, wow, that's a lot to unpack.

 
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SBMFF

It appears that gore, to D4vd, is like p o r n to him per his texts. At least that's my take on gore>"p-word"

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Source 1:15 in from Banfield's FB post: 263K views · 2.9K reactions | ‼️🤮D4VD’s sickening discord posts, and new video of Celeste in D4VD’s stream…. This is disturbing!! | Ashleigh Banfield
So in aug 2022 she was 12?

C says her parents wont let her go to his concert and he says "don't worry. I'll fix it. "

How did he fix it? Did he bribe them? Or befriend them? Or just helped her sneak out?
 
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I'm starting to wonder more about his home life.

Why would an educator and a litigation support manager prevent their child from secular education and socialising in normal ways? Why are they not monitoring his online activities.
Why don't they know what their underage son is up to?
Was he groomed to be like he is? Is Daddy helping him or teaching him with his knowledge of the law or is he acting out a fantasy of someone else's for them?

What's happening at home for him to create this alternative world filled with murder, pain and gore?

Why is he watching such gore- further back a picture shows him saying it's like p**n to him.

Was he removed from school because of social issues? Did he ever attend school?

I think we need to ask a lot more questions about them and him. IMOO
I can speak generally to the questions you raised when it comes to time spent online and the younger generation (Gen Alpha). I am a parent. These kids spend so much time online! Our family tries to enforce screen time limits and I know one other family who has similar limits as us. However, most other families I know give their kids generous internet access. Nowadays with kids online games are the playground. The kids are often sleep deprived from having been up all night gaming. A friend of mine thought her kid was going to sleep at night but she later found out he was sleeping in class. Why? He would get ahold of an iPad in the middle of the night and chat/ play games when parents were sleeping. I also hear parental chatter about how even if we think we have forbidden kids from Discord or other social media by monitoring their devices, they can easily borrow a friend's device and set up accounts. It's a challenging time to be a parent. JMO
 
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C says her parents wont let her go to his concert and he says "don't worry. I'll fix it. "

How did he fix it? Did he bribe them? Or befriend them? Or just helped her sneak out?
That's a really good question. Cuz he did something to make them allow her to attend. But what?
 
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Apologies of this isn’t the correct place to ask this but I was wondering about the ME and the cause of death being deferred. I know they are waiting on toxicology results but seeing as the body has now been released to the family and no further physical exam will take place, are we to assume there was no sign of another potential case of death? Like blunt force trauma or signs of strangulation etc. Or would that not be mentioned (if there were such signs) until toxicology is complete?

Good questions. If no obvious cause of death was determined (strangulation, blunt force trauma, weapon), then the toxicology may well yield important clues.
Her life could have been tumultuous at home, but I really don't think it would have to be.

Think about it, if she met him in 2021/2ish through some game and he started to groom her in discord when she was 10/11. She would have met him when he was barely starting to make a splash for his music. She would have been there for his whole crazy rise - as his special secret girl. To a little girl with no perspective, it would have seemed exactly like a fairytale.

Her family life could have been fine, ordinary. It wouldn't have been hollywood and millions and fame and glamour and the high intensity star crossed secret 'love story' and eventual celebrity life he promised her (and the fear of loosing him.) The grip he would have on her would have been extraordinary, no matter how good a family life she had.

I am sure her family wasn't perfect. Maybe they did have problems, or gave up getting her back, or took money or whatever. At the same time though, I have no doubt that any ordinary family would have had trouble holding onto her when he had that kind of pull. And the more they fought to keep her away from him, the more it would have strained her relationship with them.

She may have represented herself as older on Roblox. At any rate, they were both minors at the time it began. She may have encouraged him, even been a kind of muse. I agree that almost any family would have a difficult time, given the allure of this kind of online relationship and his burgeoning career. Celebrity life beckoned, they may both have believed they were "in it" together.

IMO
 

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