Trivia / My Sweet Audrina

• California Doubling: Despite being set in the US, the movie was filmed in Vancouver, the likely reason for the rampant Fake Nationality.
• Creator Backlash: Andrews stated in an interview that prior to the publication of Flowers in the Attic, she had completed several books, including one so shocking and full of sex that she hid it away in a trunk for fear of what her family would think of it. Many fans suspect that My Sweet Audrina was that book.
• Dawson Casting: Kacey Rohl was not only 24 when she played the 15-year old Vera, she's 3 years older than Tess Atkins who played the adult Vera. Atkins herself at 21 was playing the late-teens Vera, and then-23 year old India Aisley played the mid-to-late teens Audrina.
• Fake American: And how. British actor William Moseley as adult Arden and Canadians Hannah Cheramy (Vera, age 9), Kacey Rohl (Vera, age 15), Tess Atkins (adult Vera), James Tupper (Damian) Kristin Robek (Lucietta), Jennifer Copping (Ellsbeth), Matthew Kevin Anderson (Lamar Rensdale), Corey Gruter Andrew (Arden, age 11), and Seth Isaac Johnson (Arden, age 15).
• Recycled Script: In Petals on the Wind (published several years before My Sweet Audrina), there is a scene in which a character is so frightened of sex that she locks herself in the bathroom for several hours on her wedding night. My Sweet Audrina has a very similar scene. It's speculated that Andrews, believing that Audrina would never see the light of day (see Old Shame above), may have borrowed the bathroom scene in Petals from the unpublished draft of Audrina, only to later change her mind and publish Audrina with the scene still intact.
• Write What You Know:
  • V.C. Andrews was herself adept at playing the stock market (and was serious enough about it to install a stock ticker in her home). Like Audrina, she attributed her stock market success to her precognition. It isn't hard to imagine her selecting stocks with a pendulum.
  • In a more grim example of Write What You Know, Andrews herself suffered from a fall down a staircase while in high school, leaving her permanently disabled. It's not much of a stretch that a woman with such a wild imagination might have wondered what would have happened if she hadn't survive the fall.
  • Andrews also stated in a rare interview that My Sweet Audrina was partially based on an incident from her own childhood, where she was trapped in "a lonely valley" and had to run as fast as she could to save herself from an unspecified sinister fate. Andrews was haunted by the fact that as an adult, she could not recall exactly what she ran away from, and her later morbid musings on what really happened (and what might have happened had she not escaped) turned into the character of Audrina, who both did and did not experience a terrible trauma that she can't remember.