if he’s a bartender, perhaps they met through a place of work and became friends, or even if they’re not friends after nights she’s gone out and fucked her life back up again she heads to see him to have 15 minutes of her life where she doesn’t think of herself as a screw up because of his non judgemental nature. they could even have met through something simple like her trying to rent out her apartment for extra cash on craigslist and he instead enquired to use the space for a film set?