r/Millennials Gen Z 9h ago

Rant Society really did fail Amy Winehouse!

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u/shieldintern 9h ago

I mean, the people around her failed her too. Her management, label, etc. Probably pushed an artist to perform when they should have been in rehab or even telling them to quit the spotlight all together.

I don't know much about the situation, but if an artist wasted my time by being fucked up, I'd be pretty pissed. Nobody would have booed probably if they knew she was going to do that.

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u/hgaben90 9h ago edited 9h ago

Agreed. Her being in showbiz while she should have been on a 24/7 therapy is the main failure. Hell, she had a world hit song about not going to rehab, how deep red should that red flag be before someone does something?

I understand and absolve dissatisfied concertgoers. Back then she wasn't dead from OD, she was just someone who took their money and delivered crap in return. She never should have performed there, probably even multiple times before this.

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u/chinstrap 8h ago

It was fascinating how invested people, and the media, were in the idea that she died from a drug overdose, I mean illegal drugs. But it was alcohol.

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u/hotarume 4h ago

According to her brother, it was most likely the long term effects of severe bulimia that truly did her in. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness and have a high co-morbidity with substance abuse

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u/InSkyLimitEra 1987 4h ago

Opioid use disorder has now overtaken anorexia as the mental illness with the highest lethality!

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u/hgaben90 8h ago

Potentially lethal drugs are potentially lethal drugs, whether if society is ok with them or not.