Elsa

The Queen’s Gambit (2020).

In my early teens, I was so fucking hormonal. My parents were recently separated, so I had a lot of anger. The song “Paradisin’” is based on a true story—I would go out, and my mum would hack into my MSN and talk to my friends and be like, “Where the fuck is Rina?” One time I lied to her and said I was going to a sleepover but I was actually going to an after-party with this band I was a groupie of. I think I was 15. My mum somehow found out which hotel the band was staying in, called the hotel, and demanded to speak to the manager of the band. Then the manager had to call the band and be like, “What the fuck are you doing? That girl is 15, I’m on the phone with her mum right now.” They shoved me into a taxi, and my mum did not speak to me for a week.