Especially since without the stigma society places on alcoholism, he might have felt comfortable getting medical help and this could all have been avoided. Ugghhhh...

That’s the thing about alcohol: it’s one of the few things that will kill you if your body has become physically dependent on it. The other one is Benzodiazepines. Pretty much everything else will make you feel like you want to die, but won’t actually kill.

I’m sorry for your loss.

Wow, kudos to his family for talking about something many people suffer from but don’t like to admit. I hope hearing about this helps someone who is struggling.

I lost one of my best friend of over 20 years the same way.

As a recovered alcoholic I can say please get medical help if you stop drinking. I had to be hospitalized three days before going to rehab to prevent this. Don’t be ashamed, and don’t think you can automatically do it on your own.

Bless his heart. Trying to get sober, dies in the process. What a fucking tragedy.

She probably filed the docs as “Angela Kardashian a/k/a Blac Chyna” which is not unusual.

Yeah, that’s the issue here. Not the crime of revenge porn, but that this woman hurt a man’s ego.

Pretty sure Linda just wanted to call Chyna a stripper and act condescending. Linda’s probably havin’ a bad day. Poor Linda.

I’m getting real sick of all the #TeamNoone posts. You don’t have to like Black Chyna, but you should definitely be on her team. Rob committed crimes against her, robbing her of her bodily autonomy.

I find the people saying that it can’t be revenge porn because she has posted racy pictures of herself before to be disgusting.

I don’t necessarily take issue with Lena Dunham. It doesn’t look great and I don’t like her in general but we don’t know the dog or the situation.

That brought out some sizeable anger in me too. He might want to defend her but he goes out of his way to blame the fact the dog was a rescue and that basically a violent or anti social rescue dog is inevitable. Fuck him. Fuck him so hard. There will now be people who when considering a shelter dog will vaguely…

He only has to lean on one or two to refuse to sign again to force massive (and expensive) re-cuts on the film. She probably doesn’t have the independent resources to do that.

I’m sure he’s counting on being able to intimidate them so they won’t sign another release.

Agree. I thought that obtaining the original releases was important for one of the reasons you listed: It also sets up that he’s trying to tank the project in case he continued doing things like this. 

There’s probably multiple things with that. For one, it probably makes sense to try to get the signed releases back first rather then even open the door for anyone involved to claim they never signed one, or for Dean’s company to accuse the director of never obtaining them. It’s probably also potentially an issue to…

They signed during that brief window of time where it seemed like people in the industry cared about the fact that he was a rapist and sexual harasser. Now many of them are working in an industry that has made it abundantly clear that they don’t give a shit.

A reminder that people in the porn industry have been saying that James Deen is a rapist for years, but no one in the media would report the story: