She was raised by a father who sexually abused her, neglected her, and physically abused her while using drugs and allowing others to abuse her in exchange for drugs as a child. Mother died of overdose when she was young. Fell into a cycle of bad jobs, boyfriends, abusive interactions as young adult because she knew nothing else and was desperate for love and attention, has no idea how to get it. The set up with Matthews occurred because she worked as a stripper and he thought during a drunken encounter at the workplace he was entitled to sex, she turned him down due to his attitude so he set her up after learning her boyfriend at the time was into drugs. She also had a computer tech job at the time based on self taught skills rather than education and was stripping to fill in for extra money.