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DAPHNE: We're gonna get a little slow here

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DAPHNE: We're gonna get a little slow here. A lot happened from SNL onwards, but I guess I should talk about the performance itself for a moment since I got ahead of myself.

Andrea caught Billy as he was headed to the stage, she pulled the both of us aside as the band started to prepare.

She told us quite firmly that we shouldn't be left alone together for the rest of the night, that regardless of what we were or weren't, it wasn't going to go down well with Jonah.

Billy said he handled it.

He insisted that he handled it.

It's a shame I didn't know from then what that meant... I just, he went so cold in the matter of minutes.

We were connected, I felt like we were one for a little while. I felt like he was in love with me the way I was with him.

Then his life flashed before his eyes, his family meant more. I always knew it meant more but I just... I thought I could've been part of it.

[Shifts in seat] The thing is, that ideal family was never going to include me. It wasn't a blended one, it was already going to be a traditional family.

No loose strings to break.

... The family he didn't have growing up. Mom, dad and daughter. No divorce, no step-mom, no change for another person to come in and mess with perfect.

I was far from perfect.

I wasn't the girl of his American dreams. No longer, anyway.

CAMILA: I remember watching the SNL performance.

I, like a lot of people, felt like there was something missing that night. It was perfect musically, everyone performed the best they could. Daisy and Billy were singing Aurora, Daphne was playing the guitar with some backup vocals.

For the first time, I saw fear in Billy. Fear every single time he caught himself glancing at Daphne. A pale wash in his face.

Then there's that sinking feeling when you realise even SNL was trying to catch something, that the camera angles kept changing, that Daphne hadn't looked at Billy once in the performance.

And they wanted you to see that.

They were close. They were best friends. They were writing partners. What could make that shatter so quickly? What could give that look of guilt?

I was... I was on edge. I kept telling myself to choose trust and hope. I believed Billy was worthy of it. So I did. But that didn't mean it left my mind now, it was there. Now it was really there.

DAPHNE: We went to the SNL afterparty, Billy left of course.

I went to get in the car with my bandmates but Teddy pulled me aside. He insisted I rode with him. He was coughing a lot, seemed really whacked out health-wise but still the same old Teddy Price.

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