I really hope they stick with this stance. I don’t think it’s mandatory to release medical details. I don’t know why that is deemed to be in the public interest and why it seems to be the default with celebrities, but I’ve definitely heard of cases where a judge decides that no info will be released.

Agreed, I thought that was actually a great statement from a law enforcement official, which is, unfortunately, quite rare.

“In life, he was a very private person. We’re going to continue to respect his privacy and his dignity in hope that you do as well.”

I’ll paraphrase the better and funnier tweeters:

Then he’s a bad practicing physician. The flu kills people every damn day. And there is no way Dr Drew can “guarantee” this wasn’t the flu. Very unprofessional conduct on his part. Reminds me of that dipshit diagnosing Terri Schiavo from the floor of the Senate...

his face tho

Those who don’t think the flu is serious are often the same who call every cold “the flu”. I had the flu a few years ago. It is NOT like a cold. If you’ve ever had real flu, you won’t mistake a cold for a flu, and you can certainly understand why it kills so many of the elderly, people with other diseases etc.

Agreed. I am feeling oddly protective of an artist who was so conscientious of his privacy. He was at the Dakota Jazz Club on Tuesday. He was out visiting record stores on record store day, this weekend. We just don’t know how he died yet.

Maybe it’s just me but I don’t really want to know how he died. I don’t even believe in God but I’d prefer to think he just shed his earthly body and ascended to wherever artistic geniuses go. I don’t need the gory details. Can’t we let him be mysterious and magnificent in death as he was in life?

As someone who escaped that damned cult, that would make me so angry. I hope he didn’t leave those people one red cent. The worst years of my life were spent with them. My sister and I were so hoping he had gotten out before he died. She said it perfectly, “He didn’t deserve to die a Jehovah’s Witness.”

Fuckin’ 2016 - can someone send this year on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney?

I’m just sitting here frowning, softly singing Raspberry Beret under my breath and willing myself not to cry cause HE BEST NOT BE FUCKIN DEAD

I saw it recently. My advice to you: Pray with every fiber of your being that you see Daveed Diggs as Thomas Jefferson. That man stole the show.

Disclaimer: I did not see Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr—understudy/replacement was in the role at the performance I saw.

Run the world is one of her worst songs. Give me countdown or grown woman.

I’ll be adding my money to his pile of cash next week. Never been so happy to drop that much money on 2.5 hours of my life ever before. I cannot wait.

*raises hand like Hermione in Potions class on Sorcerer’s Stone*

just a PSA that i will never not laugh at ‘vaper, no vaping’

I would read that shit in one sitting, start to finish.

lets start a kickstarter, because this is hilarious

Oh, please let it be soon.