Elliot Roger grew up around red carpets and film sets, but none of it helped him figure out how to be a person.

He blamed women, his height, his race, his roommates, his candles.

Basically, everyone except himself.

What started as social isolation turned into a 137-page manifesto, a YouTube spiral, and a plan he called

the Day of Retribution. This story is about entitlement, unchecked rage, and a system

that saw the warning signs but looked the other way. Before we dive in, if you like your true

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Let's get into it. Elliot Roger grew up in a world that looked from the outside like privilege wrapped in prestige.

Born in London, he was the son of Peter Roger, a filmmaker who would go on to work on major Hollywood projects,

and Lin Chen, a Malaysian Chinese nurse who transitioned into on-set medical work after meeting Peter.

His early life was a split screen. By day, he went to private schools in the UK.

By night, he was tagging along to movie premieres and hanging out on the fringes of Hollywood's inner circle.

When he was five, the family relocated to Los Angeles, and that divide between the life he had and the life he wanted started to stretch even wider.

Not long after the move, his parents divorced. Elliot and his younger

sister split time between the two households, bouncing back and forth on a weekly schedule.

Then Peter remarried, this time to a Moroccan-born French actress. Elliot hated her. He hated

what she represented, but he hated school even more. Back in L.A.,

Elliot wasn't the interesting kid with international ties and a famous last name anymore.

Everyone had a famous last name. Every other student was the child of someone important. Where they were outgoing,

he was withdrawn. Social interactions overwhelmed him. He barely spoke in class,

whispering answers when called on. He didn't want to play with the other kids. Even stuff like

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