Elle Riche knew that, right now, she was the industry’s “It Girl”. Her heroic “small-town” story was part of it, and her current, very public, decline was another reason everyone was still watching. Everyone seemed to love a mess, and everyone seemed to want to watch a star implode regardless of how dangerous it might be. She wondered if it was for them, just morbid human fascination. Was it like watching a car crash in slow motion? They couldn’t do anything to help, or stop it, but they couldn’t look away from the impending disaster either.