Frankie tells Monique that Evelyn Hugo has personally requested her for an interview at Vivant magazine.

Evelyn tells Monique she wants a tell-all biography released after her death, not a magazine feature.

Evelyn recounts marrying Ernie Diaz as a teenager and moving to Hollywood to escape poverty and abuse.

Harry Cameron signs Evelyn to Sunset Studios after she dyes her hair blonde, changes her name, and loses her Cuban accent.

Evelyn and Don Adler fall in love on a studio-arranged date and marry after he proposes on the red carpet.

Don hits Evelyn for the first time while they are filming a movie together on location.

Evelyn and rising star Celia St. James form a genuine friendship on the set of Little Women.

After learning Celia is a lesbian and Don is cheating, Evelyn kisses Celia at the premiere after-party.

Sunset Studios drops Evelyn and Don files for divorce; Evelyn and Celia openly begin their relationship.

Evelyn tricks singer Mick Riva into eloping in Las Vegas as a sham marriage to protect her relationship with Celia.

Harry and Evelyn marry and move into a Manhattan apartment beside Celia and John, raising their daughter Connor as a family.

Evelyn films a love scene with Don without telling Celia; when Celia discovers the truth, she leaves Evelyn for good.

Harry's car crashes; Evelyn moves the male passenger into the driver's seat to hide Harry's drunk driving, and Harry dies.

Evelyn and Celia reconcile, move to Spain, exchange private marriage vows, and Celia eventually dies in Evelyn's arms.

Evelyn reveals to Monique that the man she concealed at the crash scene was Monique's own father; Evelyn later dies by suicide.

Evelyn Hugo escapes poverty and abuse in Hell's Kitchen by using her beauty and cunning to reach Hollywood, where she becomes one of the biggest stars of her era. Her marriage to Don Adler brings fame but also violence, and it is on the set of Little Women that she meets Celia St. James, the woman who will become the love of her life. Evelyn sacrifices her relationship with Celia repeatedly to protect her career, engineering a series of sham marriages to keep their love hidden from the world. After years apart, Evelyn and Celia finally reunite and live out their remaining time together in Spain, but tragedy continues to follow Evelyn as she loses everyone she loves. At the end of her story, Evelyn delivers one final devastating revelation to Monique: the man she concealed at the scene of Harry's fatal crash was Monique's own father. Having told her truth at last, Evelyn chooses to end her life on her own terms rather than submit to cancer treatment.

Evelyn Hugo's rise, loves, and the secret that destroyed a family.

Before meeting Evelyn, Monique researches her seven marriages and public persona online, finding herself fascinated despite her skepticism.

A teenage Evelyn performs a sexual act on middle-aged studio executive Ari to secure her first leading role.

At their wedding reception, Evelyn tells Harry she is genuinely happy with Don, and Harry quietly reveals he is gay.

Maid Paula secretly observes the bruises across Evelyn's ribs and later sells a damaging story about Evelyn to the press.

Evelyn stages a fake miscarriage over the phone knowing Paula will eavesdrop, and the press responds with public sympathy.

Evelyn and Celia share wine and their real histories; Evelyn catches herself staring at the freckles along Celia's hip.

Celia wins the Oscar for Little Women while Evelyn watches from home and chips a tooth kissing the television.

Evelyn travels to France, stars in a Max Girard film featuring a daring partial nude scene, and becomes an international sensation.

Evelyn hires maid Luisa and, upon hearing her speak Spanish, is confronted with how thoroughly she denied her own Cuban identity.

Harry tells Evelyn he has been secretly in a relationship with John Braverman, Celia's husband, transforming their living arrangement.

The Stonewall Riots erupt while all four are in New York; they debate joining the protests but ultimately only donate money.

Monique demands a promotion from editor Frankie in exchange for convincing Evelyn to do the Vivant cover shoot.

Evelyn wins her first Academy Award for a film she made alongside Harry and director Max Girard.

Max finds Celia's letters and confronts Evelyn with a homophobic slur; Evelyn collects her letters and leaves him without fear.

Monique visits her mother after the interviews end and asks about her parents' marriage, choosing not to reveal the full truth about her father.

Behind every headline about Evelyn Hugo is a quieter, more complicated story involving the people she trusted, the compromises she made, and the identity she buried. From trading sexual favors to launch her career, to engineering a fake miscarriage to neutralize bad press, Evelyn proves time and again that she is always working ahead of those around her. The friendships and betrayals of her inner circle — particularly Harry's secret relationship with John and Luisa's challenge to Evelyn's suppressed Cuban identity — reveal the private architecture that held her public life together. Meanwhile, Monique navigates her own transformation, asserting herself professionally and using Evelyn's hard-won wisdom to close the chapter on her failing marriage. The pool also traces the slow unraveling of Evelyn's marriage to Max, who falls in love with the idea of Evelyn Hugo rather than the real woman, and Evelyn's fearless departure from him when Celia's letters give her the courage she has always needed.

The hidden moments and private sacrifices behind Evelyn's public image.

Evelyn's mother dies in Hell's Kitchen, leaving a young Evelyn alone with her abusive father.

Harry notices a bruise on Evelyn beneath her heavy makeup during Little Women and realizes Don has been abusing her.

Celia confronts Evelyn on set about the attempt to have her removed from the film, and the two strike a deal to help each other succeed.

Monique's mother sends her late father's photo albums, and Monique reflects on how his example shaped her entire career path.

Ruby pulls Evelyn into a closet at the premiere after-party to reveal that Celia is a lesbian and Don is cheating.

Evelyn corrects Monique's assumption by identifying herself as bisexual and pushing back against being reduced to a single identity.

After fleeing the premiere, Evelyn rides with Harry and quietly admits that she is sexually like him.

Celia tells Evelyn she would abandon her entire career just to live openly together, but Evelyn refuses.

Harry proposes to Evelyn that their staged affair become a real marriage so they can build a genuine family together.

Celia and Evelyn reunite in an awards ceremony restroom after five years apart and make love against the door.

Celia agrees to Evelyn and Harry having a biological child together, setting aside her own deep insecurities about it.

Evelyn meets Don at a deli for the first time in many years; he apologizes but she withholds forgiveness.

David returns to Monique's apartment and asks to reconcile; she ends the marriage definitively and sleeps soundly that night.

Celia reveals to Evelyn that she is dying and has only about a decade left when Evelyn arrives to reconcile.

Monique reads a letter from her father addressed to Harry and realizes that James Grant had been in love with Harry Cameron.

Pool 3 traces the pivotal moments in which characters confront truth, make irreversible choices, and discover things that reshape their understanding of themselves and each other. From Evelyn losing her mother and learning to navigate a world that commodifies her body, to her quiet admission to Harry that she is like him, each event marks a point of no return in the narrative. The pool follows the emotional core of Evelyn and Celia's relationship through its most defining confrontations, including Celia's ultimatum to live openly and their secret reunion at the Academy Awards after years apart. It also captures the quieter revelations that define Monique's parallel journey, such as her father's photo albums reconnecting her to her identity and her final, clean break from David. The pool ends with the most shattering discovery of all: Monique reading her father's letter and learning that the man she had mourned for years was hiding a love just as secret and just as profound as Evelyn's own.