Although the superficial narrative is that "fame destroys", the back story was more that fame postponed the self-destruction of Rob Pilatus. Born to a US serviceman in Germany and what must have been a one night stand with a German stripper, both abandoned him to foster care. While children are often awful and cruel, taunting Rob with stereotypical epithets, his psyche had never been nurtured to form a sense of confidence.
Rob, like many insecure performers, thought that fame would compensate for the constant gnawing self-hate that many foster children, especially of visible minorities, develop. Naively, the two youngsters signed up with industry vultures who royally screwed them in a financial sense, and who paid little attention to Rob's fragile ego.
Objectively, Fabrice was more confident in the end, while Rob descended into numbing addiction, like Marylin Monroe, Judy Garland, Anna Nicole Smith and others.
Rob, like many insecure performers, thought that fame would compensate for the constant gnawing self-hate that many foster children, especially of visible minorities, develop. Naively, the two youngsters signed up with industry vultures who royally screwed them in a financial sense, and who paid little attention to Rob's fragile ego.
Objectively, Fabrice was more confident in the end, while Rob descended into numbing addiction, like Marylin Monroe, Judy Garland, Anna Nicole Smith and others.