This photo, from the London Evening Standard, may hold potential clues to part of the root of Eva's addiction - which, as any addiction specialist will tell you, is a generational disease.
The occasion is a wedding and while Eva and the surrounding guests look straight to camera (we assume), Eva's mother, looks adoringly at her husband. He, far from engaging her adulation, looks distracted, elsewhere entirely. Such a parental dynamic in the formative years - mother all-consumed by husband who is not available to her - can lead to an isolating experience for the child caught in the middle. It means neither parent is emotionally present, and the child effectively grows up an orphan - no matter whether the parents are physically present or not. They grow up in the crazy-making environment of having two parents physically present, but no parents emotionally present - and are saddled with the pain of this deficit for life. Unless they go through the (gruelling) process of addiction recovery (rehab), that is.
Her mother says in the article that she believes Eva died of a heart condition - that is very likely so - the broken heart of a lost childhood and the inevitable chaos that must follow. When I look at this shot, I see, not the forty year-old Eva, but the three-year old, tentative and unsure of herself beside Mummy and Daddy, who, caught up in their own psycho-drama, are simply not there. Requiem In Pace.
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