A FATAL FEUD
Headlines scatter across the screen:
Nadine Heywood Stole My Boyfriend
Nadine Heywood Calls Harper Moore a
B**** at the MTV Summer Bash
Nadine Heywood Confronts Harper
Moore at Moore’s Bel-Air Home
Zoe Holland: Harper was in love with Lewis. But he’d dated Nadine first. Harper was riling her up with every single kiss and each stolen look. But they already disliked each other. So I never believed that was the root of their hatred, no matter what they claimed years later.
Lewis Stamper: Look, we’ll get to what happened, but that’s beside the point.
Toward the end of the year, CADS grew intense.
Everyone turned on each other. As Harper’s boyfriend, I was the first to notice she was being targeted more than most. Her auditions were sabotaged, her scripts stolen, her costumes damaged.
Someone even planted drugs on her. Which …
you know. Nadine Heywood isn’t exactly known for her sobriety, is she?
Amos DuPont: Nadine was volatile. I lived with her back then—it was all slamming doors and passive-aggressive notes. Other people were simply in her way, whether they stood in front of the sink or in front of an Academy Award.
Ivan Drozdov, in his Malibu home, runs a hand through his hair, evidently reluctant to talk about any of this.
Ivan Drozdov: Nadine didn’t care for romance. She was focused. So if anything did happen, it was certainly never about the boyfriend. Does any of this matter, anyway? We’re talking about a murder case. Isn’t CADS a little inconsequential?
Jasmine McKenna: There is, of course, historically, only one person who would want to hurt Harper.
A flyer appears on screen: Blood Wedding, 1993 performance at Reginald Theater, Central Art and Drama School. Nadine Heywood and Harper Moore are listed on either side of Lewis Stamper, the ink blurring.
Nadine Heywood: The whole world knows what Harper’s stance on what happened is: I stole her boyfriend.
Hardly. So if you want the truth, it all began at the retreat, a small lodge on the coast for us to dive into the world of one play, to know it intimately and without reservation so that when roles were cast we could launch right in.
Me and the boyfriend? We were cast as lovers.