Annie Elise

Obviously, there was blood in the shower.

He did try to clean himself off.

But once he left the hotel, it's not like he tried to, like, carefully, like, use bleach or anything like that to clean up the trail behind him, which two points could be argued for that, I suppose.

One, due to any sort of mental health issues,

incident.

Maybe he didn't realize or have the, you know, the capacity to think through what that should look like.

Or maybe he left the hotel expecting to return back and then was arrested, unfortunately, before he could even have the chance to return.

Who really knows?

We don't know at this point.

Everything is still breaking.

But here's where the former friend's comments are starting to come into play.

And this is what has a

A family friend who says that they've known Nick his entire life told the Daily Mail that Nick's troubling behavior did not start in adulthood.

They claim that it went all the way back to childhood.

According to this friend, Nick had had severe tantrums as young as 11 years old, including very violent outbursts that would require physical restraint.

The friend even described seeing his dad Rob physically restraining Nick one time in like a bear hug type hold during one of these episodes.

Not punching, but really trying to control him during what they described was a very intense rage.

And according to this same friend, Nick never really outgrew that behavior.

They claimed that Nick continued to have similar outbursts well into his 20s and also had this ongoing substance abuse issue, which they described as escalating instability.

The friend also said that once Nick started frequently being at the family's Brentwood home, he described him as, quote, having an unpleasant presence, alleging that he often smelled very strongly of weed, sweat, appeared visibly high, and that he would grunt or ignore people whenever he was spoken to.