Name: Rhett Matthews
Age: 31
Birthday: June 15th
Zodiac: Gemini
Occupation: Currently unemployed, but a struggling musician
Hometown: Cambridge, England
Current Location: Seattle, Washington
Sexuality: Pansexual
Relationship status: Dating Allegra Nardi
About Rhett:
TW: Drug use, drug abuse, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempt, and drug overdose (TW bullet points will be italicized)
Rhett Matthews was born on June 15th, 1991. He was the the oldest of 7. He had two sisters and 4 brothers. His sisters and two of his brothers were twins.
His parents had to spend most of their time working to pay the bills, so Rhett devoted much of his time to watching over his siblings growing up.
When he wasn’t doing that, he spent all his other time learning how to play music, drawing and painting. Rhett was a very artistically gifted boy. He was far beyond his years when it came to playing music, as well as drawing.
Over his youth, Rhett learned how to play the guitar, piano, bass guitar, cello, violin, trumpet and the drums. His favorites to play were guitar and piano, however, so he mostly focused on those when he could.
His parents always encouraged Rhett to pursue whatever he wanted so he put all his effort into music. Rhett began to write his own songs when he was around twelve years old and never looked back.
When Rhett was twenty years old, he said goodbye to Cambridge and moved to New York City, knowing that his best chance to get on a label was to move to America. And what better place was there than America?
For about a year, he worked odd jobs around the city, saving up every single penny he could so he could rent a recording studio. It was hard, but he managed it and got himself a studio for 3 hours. In those three hours, Rhett put his heart and soul in a demo that he truly believed was going to take him places.
Rhett sent the single out to label, after label, after label and for two years, he hadn’t heard a single response from any of them. He was starting to get discouraged and was starting to think that his dream was dead. But Rhett continued to play at local clubs, just wanting to play music.
Slowly, but surely, responses started to trickle in about his demo and every single response he got, was a denial. None of the labels thought he was a good fit.
Rhett fell into a depression. He wasn’t able to get himself out of bed. Every day it was harder to want to want to be there. Rhett truly thought that he was meant to play music and he was meant to be a rockstar…and without that, he was nothing. Rhett couldn’t dare to think about it.
He attempted to end his life by hanging himself but fortunately for Rhett, his roommate at the time came home and caught him just in time.
For weeks, he still didn’t budge from his bed. He just wallowed. He had a few friends from his local music scene visit him and one in particular knew that Rhett was struggling and offered him a hit of cocaine to try and ease the pain. Having nothing to lose, Rhett obliged and that was his first introduction to drugs.
From there, he quickly spiraled into addiction. He started with cocaine, then moved to smoking crack and once that lost its luster, Rhett found heroin. He has been using it ever since.
After a while, Rhett was finally able to start living his life again, getting random small jobs around town just to make some cash so he could support his lifestyle.
Rhett had missed paying his roommate rent for several months and he was kicked out of his home. With nowhere to go, Rhett lived on the streets for a short time before he found himself living at a homeless shelter. He spent a few months there before he found an ad in the newspaper about an old woman needing a hands-on roommate to take care of her home. Much to his surprise, the ad hadn’t been filled and the old woman, named Rosa, agreed to let Rhett live with her without pay as long as he did all the manual labor of taking care of the home. She was just too old to do it herself anymore.
For a while, Rhett was dating a man named Rafael who he was madly in love with. However, Rafael couldn’t deal with his drug addiction and he broke up with Rhett. After a few months of fighting and begging, Rhett eventually agreed to go to rehab for the man. However, when he finally agreed, Rafael disappeared into the night without a word, leaving Rhett alone again. The pain of his love disappearing without a word led him to overdose once again.
From there, he just continued to survive as an addict, partying, sometimes making money from gigs. Through his partying, however, he met Allegra Nardi and for months, they beat around the bushes with one another. Rhett was afraid to fall in love again, but he did it anyway and fell head over heels for her.
However, Rhett’s addiction never waned and he was so far in debt with his dealer that the two of them decided to leave New York City and move across the country to Seattle. It was the only thing they could think of to do while he worked on getting money to pay off his dealer.
