Storm Reid, who played Gia Bennett in the first two seasons of HBO’s Euphoria, says she’s “busy in the stu” after her absence from the final season. The finale ended with Rue’s death after fentanyl-laced painkillers, and Reid appeared only via a brief hallucin
Storm Reid didn’t just watch the final chapter of Euphoria arrive on Sunday night—she also addressed, directly, why she wasn’t there for most of it.
The 22-year-old actress played Rue’s younger sister Gia Bennett in the first two seasons of the HBO series. For the third and final season. which has now ended. she didn’t return in the way fans were used to. In the episode itself. Nika King did appear briefly as their mom. but Storm Reid’s presence came only through a very short flashback moment while Zendaya’s character Rue hallucinated her family and friends in the final moments before she died.
The finale’s closing stretch didn’t hold back. Rue died of a fentanyl overdose after she was intentionally given painkillers laced with the drug. Her former boss, Alamo Brown, ordered her death after learning that she had been working with the DEA.
Reid then turned to social media, posting footage of herself recording music in the studio. In the TikTok video, she captioned the clip: “sorry rue I’m busy in the stu.”
The reaction from one fan was blunt. “it’s fine, you weren’t in her last 7 minutes,” the commenter wrote, adding three crying emojis. Reid answered that with a single line: “were you?”
When Euphoria wrapped on Sunday night. it left viewers with a clear final image of Rue’s end—and a very limited glimpse of Gia through Rue’s hallucination. For Storm Reid. the message was just as direct: she may have been absent from the season’s present-day story. but she’s not hiding from the conversation around it.
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Busy in the stu sounds like an excuse tbh.
Wait so she wasn’t even in the season and they still ended it with Rue dying?? I’m confused, like was her character dead already or just missing the plot?
Nika King was there for a second and that’s it? And the boss ordered her death?? That’s wild. Also I hate when fans act like 7 minutes is the whole show when the drug stuff was the point.
The caption “sorry rue I’m busy in the stu” is kinda messed up considering the fentanyl part, like do people not realize how dark that is? And I saw somewhere that Alamo Brown was basically the DEA too?? idk, but if Zendaya’s character hallucinated her family then Storm wasn’t really “absent,” she was in it technically, right?