I’ve seen it three times .

Time to go and see it again.

That’s her real face? I thought that was an outtake from “White Chicks.”

FACTS. I still remember the time my mother gave me a withering glare about attempting to wear flip flops to church. My argument that “Jesus wore sandals!” cut no ice, because she told me “Yes, Jesus wore SANDALS. Not shower shoes.” and sent me upstairs to change.

As crazy as this sounds, I believe this. I had a very similar CO2-cartridge-powered device for making soda water blow up in my hand years ago. In my case, it was totally my fault: I hadn’t gotten the top threaded on correctly. But it was an extremely violent event. I was lucky that the worst happened was partially…

It’s okay, Sean. We’re all stress-eating our way through this administration too.

Uhh, Steve? I think there is an adage about stones and glass houses that applies to you here...

Blackface is something specific. I’m not really supportive of it’s continued expansion into more and more situations.

This is my question too. How can you get road rage against pedestrians? Unless they walked out in front of him or something, but that would lead to you getting out a baseball bat... how?

Maybe because he is Hispanic?

I’m sitting in the ICU with my mom who had severe internal bleeding and liver failure as a result of longterm alcohol use, which was a result of illness and a hard life, and the judgemental tone some people have makes me feel terrible and furious.

According to her family that’s probably what she wanted. Based off how she wrote about her life she basically treated her whole life as a PSA. Her openness and refusal to feel shame about her problems is one reason I loved her.

The way her family is handling this makes me so happy. “Carrie Fisher maybe died because of drugs!” “Yup, that’s probably true. What’s your point?” I think not being afraid to acknowledge these things, and to say, “We loved her anyway” is so huge in decreasing stigma and helping other families see the light.

I still remember watching the documentary with my wife a few months back and seeing the trainer coming to her house to basically bully her into getting into some sort of better health for the filming of Star Wars and we both thought: what the hell do they need Carrie Fisher “in shape” for to reprise Leia? It’s thirty…

drugs kill us in more ways than OD and pretending otherwise is so nuts it makes me want to throw my computer against the wall.

drugs= death for us addicts. pretending otherwise as to not “stigmatize” the addiction IS stigmatization. let’s be open and honest. drugs kill us in more ways than OD.

I viscerally agree with you - but also, I don’t think she would have given a shit that we know. No one was more open about drug use and dependency than Carrie.

Me wishing she didn’t die because of her addiction isn’t calling her a bad person BECAUSE she had an addiction.

I totally agree. About this report, I’ve already seen people say, “She’s gone. We don’t need to know about this. It’s disrespectful.” But I have to believe Carrie Fisher would’ve wanted this information public and known. Addiction and mental illness are battles that go on for a person’s entire life and require…

Even in death the woman continues to be a catalyst for important discussions about women’s mental health, and addiction. Thank you Carrie.