Originally Posted by Rhumbatugger:
“Chloe has learned that if you play the wilting, fragile butterfly, you can get away with being a really annoying pain in the arse and make others feel guilty and look after you, and you don't have to learn a bit of self sufficiency.
I'm not sure of her, she enters this really vulnerable making world and career, for which you need to have a bit of a hide, and I think IF she really was that 'fragile', she wouldn't have gone NEAR IT.
She'd be having the vapours on the sofa at home where it's safe.”
I don't think this is a valid argument. Showbiz, music, film, etc are littered with casualties of drugs, drink and mental illness. There's a correlation between creativity and sensitivity, and thats certainly been true in my own life, where the most creative people I've known are the ones who feel things more deeply and then struggle to cope.
Re. BB, I've long thought that the people most attracted to the show are the least well-equipped to deal with it...fragile egos, hungry for approval, etc.
For all her neediness and showiness, I do think Chloe has some real mental health issues. She seems terrified of disapproval, and with her alcoholism as another factor, I don't think she should ever have been put in there.