I find it extremely sad & pathetic that it has almost become the norm for celebrities to be dysfunctional. I cannot comprehend why, after reaching a very high level of success, do these people spiral out of control, and either join the looney bin or literally kill themselves.
Just look at Britney Spears.
And what about Chris Farley, Sam Kinison, John Belushi, and so, so many more talented young people who died so young?
Is this the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for everyone desiring fame?
Who the hell needs it?
Regarding Heath Ledger, I've never seen any of his work, so I wasn't a fan. But many were.
Therefore, his life, and death, meant something to many. So here's the post....
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02072008/news/columnists/his_pals_are_guilty___and_so_was_he_701915.htm
February 7, 2008 -- THERE is nothing noble or beautiful about the so-called accidental death of Heath Ledger, a man with everything to live for - a beautiful daughter, a blossoming career, and a Victoria's Secret catalog-full of willing babes.
He threw it away, as gamely as if he had put a gun to his mouth and pulled the trigger.
He was reckless and greedy. He was fundamentally selfish.
Six Drug Cocktail Lethal For Heath
Now his daughter will grow up never knowing the man she worshiped from birth; his parents must bury a son they cherished.
And the rest of us outside Heath's Hollywood orbit are left to ask: What happened?
I'll tell you what happened. It is not easy for a young and otherwise healthy man to die at 28. It takes a lethal and varied combination of prescriptions. It takes planning.
But Heath did not act alone. He had help - and I'm not just talking about Teflon midget Mary-Kate Olsen, who astonishingly has failed to explain why she sent her hired muscle, instead of authorities, to Heath's apartment.
Heath was aided by a pack of enablers who tacitly encouraged and then covered up his addictions.
Cry for Heath's daughter. Cry for his parents. Cry for Michelle Williams. But don't cry for Heath.
I am disgusted that an adult had so little regard for those who loved him that he would continue to self-destruct.
But I am also disgusted with members of the media. Only after Heath was gone did I see damning 2-year-old video of him scratching his skin like a common junkie, nodding off in the midst of conversation, and drinking bottles of wine in the middle of the day.
This was incontrovertible proof that Heath was in trouble. Could airing the tapes have saved him? Or prevented even one kid from taking drugs? We'll never know.
I am disgusted with the Hollywood crowd that covers for him still. Natalie Portman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Josh Brolin and Ellen Page were just some of the heavies who warned "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider" that there would be consequences if they showed footage of Heath at a drug-fueled party.
The death may have been ruled an accident, but it looks as if it was a near certainty.
The truth must be told.
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The sad truth is that even when people are fairly certain they're addicted and have a problem and want to stop, they can't. They have to "hit bottom", crash, kill someone.
Or kill themselves.
Why we humans are so stubborn is really the mystery. We feel it's the same drive for creativity and success, the same obsessive pathways that function to fuel the positive that drive those self-destructive compulsions, as well.
Actors, then, would be a particularly vulnerable population.
And it seems they are.
That is exactly the mystery.
But why do so many not fall?
There are thousands of super successful celebrities who have a grip on reality.
What causes these others to self destruct like they do?
If you agree with her then you're basically saying he deserved to die. That viewpoint is pretty reprehensible and dispassionate.
I don't see how you come to the conclusion that Andrea Peyser (and me by agreeing with her) wanted Ledger to die?
She is saying that we need to take responsibility for our own actions. By not doing so, we have to face consequences that may seem unreal to us at that time.
Nobody wanted to see Keith Ledger die. He was not an evil person.
The whole point of her article was about personal responisbility and how the media tries to cover up those who don't or can't rise to the occasion.
I find it extrmely sad that such young and talented indiduals destroy their own lives by self destructing.
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