Question About The Klonopin Years

[sparky]

The timeline and details have already been covered.

The point is, Stevie takes ZERO responsibility for most of her own actions. The coke they "didn't know was dangerous," the Klonopin was " the doctor's fault." I am sure she would say no one told her smoking cigarettes and pot could damage her voice too. She would have people believe she was an illiterate creature raised like a veal in a box. Nothing is ever her fault.

Any person with the ability to read knew coke was addictive and dangerous as soon as 1950. Anyone with a PDR knew Klonopin was addictive. Her recent statement about the inauguration, "I am totally on tranquilizers" is what I knew all along. No veteran drug user doesn't know when they are HIGH. She only stopped when she damn near killed herself falling into a fireplace from being so wacked out.

I noticed her zombie act on the Tango tour. Vocally and physically. It only got worse. When I first moved to LA in 1993, I met someone who spilled the beans. It so happened that this persons's GF worked in a pharmacy in Beverly Hills. The one Stevie used. I mentioned Stevie and this individual told me that she was on a staggering amount of tranquilizers of varying types, and in very extremely high dosages. It explained everything. She also told me a variety of women picked them up for her, never Stevie herself. You can imagine I recognized the physical descriptions of said messengers. Or should I say enablers?

So, from the weight to the drugs, it is all about abdicating responsibility for one's actions. I will never doubt Stevie's genius as a writer, fleeting as the fertile years were, or her charismatic presence as a performer. Nor can I question her caginess at crafting and maintaining her image. But as a human being? Addict or not, my respect for her has continually plummeted the more I know about her. She is an excuse factory of the highest order. When it comes to self indulgence, she is world class royalty.