Nina Bhadreshwar
'How to Survive Puberty at 25' or rather guns, gangs, family, bullies and puberty is the true story of Nina Bhadreshwar, a young journalist, and her journey through others' stories to her own sanity after 14 years of anorexia and suicidal depression.
Puberty is always painful. It is particularly painful when you are 25 years old and then living, as a British mixed race broke ass lass in Watts, Los Angeles shortly after the L.A. riots. And it becomes undeniably explosive when the said overaged adolescent is recruited to work for, write for and be the voice for Death Row Records in Westwood, Los Angeles. How Nina navigates her way through her cultural confusion and anorexia also becomes the chronicle for the little-known real behind-the-scenes of the history-changing episode that was Death Row Records and Los Angeles 1994-1996.
Nina Bhadreshwar is the British editor of The Real State magazine, an international underground arts and music magazine first established in 1992. She sold her first feature film script in 1995 and has been writing plays and film scripts since then (in both Los Angeles and the UK), performing stand-up comedy for seven years, and interviewing and reviewing countless bands, artists, activists and unusual people for the past 20 years. She worked as a paid writer in Hollywood between 1994-1996 and was also on the pay roll at the infamous Death Row Records during their glory days, barely escaping with her life.
Nina has written feature articles for 'Arena' magazine, continues to edit The Real State, and is producing her first British film, 'My Heroine' in Scotland. She now lives and teaches English in Dundee, Scotland.
Snoop could see I was upset. ‘You’ve gone. Jake’s gone. Death Row is going to go downhill now. There’s no one up there to help us. I believe God will look after his own and if we do things right, everything’s going to work out for us. So are you with me, Nina?’
I said, ‘Of course.’ He really seemed to be begging me, which was strange. To me, it was an honour. I guess at that time he really felt like the world was against him, which in a way it was; they believed he was guilty and his sentence was as good as passed. He hugged me again and we got into his big Cherokee with the brand new, eardrum-busting sound system. Snoop yelled to his cousin, Joe Cool:
‘Are you ready?
‘Nigga, I was born ready!’ and Joe Cool jumped into the front of the jeep next to Snoop.
