fully sure what happened in Jules’s parents’ divorce but that it must have been pretty nasty because fathers rarely get full custody.
There is a scene in which Rue says that around the time Jules got better, her mom got “worse,” but there are no further details just yet.
When Jules was 11, her mom took her on a “road trip” to see a psychiatrist. At the end of the session, she was told that she was being given a tour of a psychiatric hospital.
About halfway through the tour, Jules realized that her mother had lied and she was being admitted to the unit. During her stay in the psychiatric hospital, she self harms, but she is eventually able to leave once she recovers.
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