Permission from the family to release the autopsy report would end our speculation. Either there is something in it they do not wish to have revealed, or the case investigators have asked that it not be revealed at this time. Personally, I don't think his poor appearance was due to a drug addiction; I think there was something more going on.

1Sasha said:

FunkiestOne said:

Wlcm2thdwn3 said:

Didn't anyone see the video of his piano and microphone tour appearances? Prince could barely stand up when the audience was joining him in singing. His fingers were so thin they were clawliike while he was playing the piano. Don't believe me? Look again at his live concerts.

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I haven't seen the video but I was in the first five rows for the two Atlanta shows...and everything you said is nonsense.

First five rows, and watching the guy for 2+ hours, that is more perspective than any of us here could have on how he "looked", and definitely trumps these single frames that everyone wants to keep projecting onto. Thanks FunkiestOne.

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Tresha68 said:

1Sasha said:

Permission from the family to release the autopsy report would end our speculation. Either there is something in it they do not wish to have revealed, or the case investigators have asked that it not be revealed at this time. Personally, I don't think his poor appearance was due to a drug addiction; I think there was something more going on.

I agree. I do believe, sadly he was addicted, but something graver was underlying.

I absolutely believe that to be so.

Read this thread: http://prince.org/msg/7/431781

nursev said:

morningsong said:

His arms are bony, no muscular contours at all showing through. And he's the only one in that picture dressed that heavy, the weather can't be that cold. Heck look at the people looking at him, it isn't a star-struck look in their eyes.

exactly...everybody in the pic are looking not like "oh it's Prince" but like something is wrong with him. Definitely some physical illness going on.

What people looking at him in the basketball pic? I see one person in which you can see his eyes and he doesn't look concerned.

RoyalDutch said:

haleno1 said:

I think not 100% this pic on the bike was taken in Australia about 3-4 years back. The other photo on Twitter where's he's on a bike near traffic lights and Paisley is in the background was taken two years ago. If that helps.

I knew about the one near the traffic lights but wasn't able to find the bike pic...so yes, it helps a lot. Thanks! Would you happen to know if it was a concert he was there for or was it something else?

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tmo1965 said:

AA1slot said:

Photo of basketball .game with Demaris is from 3/16. P looks terrible in that InTouch photo. Having had a relative and his girl friend live with me that were bothheroin addicts..they never got to the point of skin and bones....ever and both had quite a large habit going on. he GF worked as a stripper...do you think she could have held a job looking like that? Hundreds of dollars a day. Based on my personal experience with that, I'd say something else was going on with P. Good point on if one's days are numbered, would they care how much money they spent...I'd know I wouldnt...I'd do whatever the f I wanted to do...including reminding people how much I loved them or tell them for the first time that, and try to right my wrongs.

Were your relative and his girlfriend in withdrawal? It does not sound like they were. According to some reports, Prince was trying to detox himself and he went into withdrawal, which explains the weight loss and flu like symptoms. From my understanding of drug alcohol abuse/ addiction, a person stops getting high from their drug of choice and need to continue to take it just to feel normal. When they stop taking the drug, they go through horrible withdrawal symptoms, which is why addicts oftentimes want to stop using but can't because going through withdrawal too difficult.

I went to think that is thiness was a part of the withdrawal process but if you go back to a pic from the Vikings game and the pic with the journalist from the National Black Journalist Association his face looks puffy and not natural looking. How did he go from puffy to so thin in a few months. I guess the questions is does withdrawals do this to you? I know their is a rumor that he was in the hospital for Sephis in 2014 and Kirk said he was in the hospital for treatment in 2014 but treatment for what? Rehab or some illness other than pain meds. We know from the unamed source he had Xanax and some sort of anti-seziure meds in his system so some other things were going on.

haleno1 said:

lunaysol said:

cloveringold85 said:

lollipop2 said:

cloveringold85 said:

He seemed fine there, from what I can see. Reason why I do not agree with the theory that he knew he was "dying" of some terminal illness (AIDS/Cancer). It's not logical to purchase a brand-new piano and guitar if you know you are on your death bed. Just saying. Yes, Prince had been looking "very thin" in recent months, but he was always thin. He was very thin back in the 90s. When you get older, you start to lose "muscle", and I'm not sure Prince was working-out in his later years. I am very much like Prince, in many ways and especially in my beliefs, and will always stand by my belief that Prince did not know what he was taking. I think he was trying to relieve his pain; he was only human. I just hope and pray they will find out where those pills came from.

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The piano wasn't purchased, it was from Yamaha , an acoustic piano..given to Prince to promote Yamaha, he was to take it on the rest of his tour...specially made for him, last I heard it was at PP

It still is.

cloveringold85 said:

He seemed fine there, from what I can see. Reason why I do not agree with the theory that he knew he was "dying" of some terminal illness (AIDS/Cancer). It's not logical to purchase a brand-new piano and guitar if you know you are on your death bed. Just saying. Yes, Prince had been looking "very thin" in recent months, but he was always thin. He was very thin back in the 90s. When you get older, you start to lose "muscle", and I'm not sure Prince was working-out in his later years. I am very much like Prince, in many ways and especially in my beliefs, and will always stand by my belief that Prince did not know what he was taking. I think he was trying to relieve his pain; he was only human. I just hope and pray they will find out where those pills came from.

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Hey, cloveringold85,

You do bring up a great point! You also want to note that they claim he was 112 pounds when he died. But that is a normal weight (BMI) for a person his height.

One observation here..[b].Prince's arms were always healthy and defined[/

I disagree about his arms. In the beginning yes, videos of the LoveSexy tour yes, because I have actually been marveling at how nice his arms were back in the day. But his arms didn't just become thinner recently, they lost that nice tone over at least a decade. As someone else said, age and no longer working out most likely. I am resigning myself to the fact that we can speculate forever, but will never really fully know what was going on, and I am slowly coming to accept that.

lopez568 said: