overdoses.......
 

you know, with all the conversation around Prince, and the possible use of "save drugs" when he possibly overdosed made me think about Stevie. Whether the Prince stories turn out to be true or not, I have to wonder if any such interventions had to be done on Stevie. I'm suspecting yes. Paul Fishkin talks about them having to "scrape her off the floor" more than once, and of what he called "near-overdoses" on the road. Not all overdoses are fatal, and I got the sense that because they didn't kill her he didn't consider them real "overdoses' but honestly, I can totally imagine her having been found unconscious and having to get emergency medical intervention. Someone in an earlier thread said that they think she's got nothing more to hide of the "bad stuff" that happened, but I think she really would hate for people to think about or dwell on the real gritty and grim aspects of her addictions.

Just with all this Prince talk about such things makes me think of how damn lucky she is.

hip problems and high heels
 

you know, all the talk about the chronic hip problems caused by jumping around in way too high heels got me wondering - don't people always talk about Stevie having hip problems? could it be similar thing?

i know that these days she doesn't jump around nearly as much as Prince did for decades, but people say she used to in her younger, coked up days.

there's been mention of foot problems, which wouldn't surprise me a bit.

I'd hate to think she's taking anything prescription let alone opioids for pain with her history......

She'd clearly like to not wear the boots (all summer long) but too many selfish fans bitched about the frankenboots so she switched back. :eek:

no, no - i don't think she's taking something like that for pain, i was just thinking that her hip problems may stem from those high heels.

there are other artists who switched to flat boots these days and they are doing just fine, still screaming with style - Cyndi Lauper who is also very very short comes to mind.

frankenboots are not the only option!

But she likes to say she came thisclose to dying all of the time anyway. I would think she'd be ok with talking about it now, especially when she is giving one of her cautionary comments to the youth of today.

Michele

The 5'2" curse. :distress:


Michele

yeah but this is Stevie we're talking about....everything is romanticized in her versions. You know, like dying in the movies.... beautifully coiffed and made up and hand on your brow....

On the floor unconscious, or in a pool of your own bodily fluids..... not so romantic a picture. :shrug:

I just saw Cyndi and she was wearing a platform sneaker ( i refuse to use buzz words ),also Pat Benatar had them too the difference is these ladies wear pants not a dress so it looks cool I have seen Margaret Cho in the same type of solid sole platform but they were combat boots

If it turns out that Prince died of a drug overdose and Stevie did not is quite shocking and ironic. Stevie told the story that years after he did Stand Back she was sick in bed and refused to give her cough medicine because Prince said he did not want her to get addicted to another substance (or something like that).
Stevie's Thousand Days is written about Prince and some of the lyrics are shocking.... about him dragging her up the stairs, etc. Now looking back to have thought Stevie survived but Prince did not is pretty ironic.

yeah i saw Cyndi a year ago and she wore combat boots, without any platform on them. Stevie has some similar stage outfits that would go with nice stylish flat boots.

i don't think anyone familiar with opiod issues would call it ironic; just incredibly sad. even people who do everything to fight addiction (in themselves and others!) can succumb.

as we all know, opioids are highly addictive, and even worse for people who have addictive nature to begin with. those stories as well as all recent Paisley Park ones sound very much like Prince did not want to be enabler for anyone. Richard Dashut cites his own addictive nature as one of the big reasons why he doesn't want to have back surgery he so desperately needs - because he thinks he can't risk getting addicted to opioids he would need after the surgery.

in fairness I think the comment was saying that it's ironic not that Prince succumbed but that Stevie didn't given that her life was certainly (at one point) a total recipe for disaster

I saw Cyndi a few months ago with the platform shoe's on should have clarified that and I'm seeing her next week with Boy George

Not everyone develops the same symptoms, my hip arthritis is moderate severe but manageable with out pharmaceutical drugs , and I'm sure if Stevie moved on stage 1 10th that Prince did she may have been in worse shape, and been given pain killers and opiates

I was thinking of her cocaine days.

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