Will Ferrell and Dave Grohl doing Leather & Lace

[strandinthewind]

I think she places the blame on the coke on the times. She often says nobody told them it was bad, etc.

I knew at age 15 from experience that drinking all night made you feel like crap the next day and that meant it could not possibly be good for you no matter how much fun it was to get snot slinging, knee walking, toilet hugging, hellraising drunk with your pals the night before Ditto for the drugs in college. Plus, I was alive in the 70's and I remember the ads were on TV and elsewhere that drugs were bad for you. Though the Betty Ford Clinics of the world were really not around then, many other hospitals for addiction existed and had existed for years. So, when people say they did not know it was bad for them, I call BS.

As for the Klonopin, I think she was somewhat hoodwinked with that. It takes a strong person to stand up to a doctor; they are supposed to be the experts. As for her friends, they may not have known that she was addicted until 1989 or so - she was clearly out of her mind when I saw her then in Dallas. But, at the Dallas BTM show, she was lucid. So, I wonder how evident it was and when she started to combine the Klonopin with the Valium, etc.

In terms of her career tanking and that being a catalyst for the altered mental state, the platinum OOTM with its top 20 single, was not a flop by any means, though it was not the seller that her former solo records were. And, BTM was a hit as well, though it was not a seller like the prior FM records. So, I she was beginning to realize her career was tanking and was looking for escapism.

On edit - I make no comment on the fact that she was addicted, which is a disease. I comment only on her statements that nobody ever said the coke was bad for them. I mean if it was so harmless, why was it illegal? Surely, that conversation came up once or twice along with the nosebleeds