Rue struggled with opioid abuse since the death of her father when she was a teenager. Her character arc on “Euphoria” was marked by addiction, relapse, and striving for redemption.
Rue also struggled with suicidal ideation, but the cruel irony is that she has a plan for freedom and survival when she dies in the series finale. She collaborated with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to bring down the drug kingpin Laurie (Martha Kelly), and believed she had regained the trust of her new employer, Alamo Brown (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a strip-club owner and notorious crime lord.
However, Alamo caught wind that Rue had tipped off the DEA. He gave her Percocet, intentionally laced with fentanyl, to kill her as payback.
As Rue lay dying, she hallucinated happier times with her friend Fezco (Angus Cloud) and her ex-girlfriend Jules (Hunter Schafer), and a reunion with her mom that would never come to pass.
“In the end, I wanted to tell an honest story about addiction,” creator and showrunner Sam Levinson said. “The honest ending is people like Rue don’t make it.”
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