i find all of prince's 'close friends' lacking. all of them are amazingly well placed with media but short on knowing he was in trouble.

i'm feeling salty about all these 'close friends' getting their google results fluffed out... yet our genius is no longer..maybe ihad too many margeritas tonight

NinaB said:

terrig said:

i find all of prince's 'close friends' lacking. all of them are amazingly well placed with media but short on knowing he was in trouble.

i'm feeling salty about all these 'close friends' getting their google results fluffed out... yet our genius is no longer..maybe ihad too many margeritas tonight

You just described my anger phase of grief... have the same feelings but was happy to read apollonia's letter. Knowing she really was on her way to see him after that FB post about hopping on a plane.

At least she did try to get there in time .. reading that has helped my anger to calm down.

Leaving more room for tears again *sigh*

terrig said:

i find all of prince's 'close friends' lacking. all of them are amazingly well placed with media but short on knowing he was in trouble.

i'm feeling salty about all these 'close friends' getting their google results fluffed out... yet our genius is no longer..maybe ihad too many margeritas tonight

yep a very fair point made there. Surely stuff like this should be kept private OR is this just the age we now live in where people share every last detail. She was clearly a good friend BUT so were mnay others...where were they?

terrig said:

terrig said:

QueenofPurplePalace said:

terrig said:

i find all of prince's 'close friends' lacking. all of them are amazingly well placed with media but short on knowing he was in trouble.

i'm feeling salty about all these 'close friends' getting their google results fluffed out... yet our genius is no longer..maybe ihad too many margeritas tonight

I felt the same way until a friend of mine spun it in a different perspective. Would Prince drop everything for them? For example when sweet Vanity died he wasn't going to cancel his tour to goto her family but he did send his love. Tamron loved him for sure but after listening to her describe their relationship it seemed like they were long distance close friends. Plus she and the others have jobs. But either way i feel you and your anger is justified because some "friends" are milking this for attention.

I think their grief is real and valid - but all the media posturing and 'performance grief' is queasy-making. It's like lights, camera, "I was Princes friend (please speculate on whether it was romantic - google my name and get me socila media points)...snif sniff'

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jumanji2016 said:

rogifan said:

Texting? But she said they didn't text because Prince didn't own a cell phone.

Prince also said: "Everyone around me has a cellphone." Also, you can send texts through iMessage from an e-mail address. He didn't say that he didn't have an iPad.

He really did not have a cell phone.....think about how on the fringe healthy he was. The things he would avoid. He has spoken out against flouride in the past as being poisonous, he never microwaved his food, and he also even tweeted one time, this was one of his tweet and deletes, that the he does not have a cell phone because he felt the microwave radiation they produce is harmful.

None of that seems far fetched for Prince imo.

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NinaB said:

jumanji2016 said:

BobGeorge909 said:

NorthC said:

TessDeKegel said:

terrig said:

i find all of prince's 'close friends' lacking. all of them are amazingly well placed with media but short on knowing he was in trouble.

i'm feeling salty about all these 'close friends' getting their google results fluffed out... yet our genius is no longer..maybe ihad too many margeritas tonight

You just described my anger phase of grief... have the same feelings but was happy to read apollonia's letter. Knowing she really was on her way to see him after that FB post about hopping on a plane.

At least she did try to get there in time .. reading that has helped my anger to calm down.

Leaving more room for tears again *sigh*

I'm hoping Apples gets some counseling also. She was trying to get to him but to no avail. She knew something was probably "off" and wanted to see with her own eyes he was o.k. Hopefully Tamron's story will inspire others. More importantly, I hope she wasn't financially compensated from this.

cardinal said:

sorry but the cynic in me has to question WHY she made this public. a person suffers a traumatic loss, they get therapy. we get it. she could have tended to her needs without making it a public spectacle. IMO, just another attempt to get attention or reinforce to the world that they were SO CLOSE that now she needs therapy to get over it. as to the therapy, i say good for her. as to making it public, i say what is the motive? yeah, i am jaded. too many people talking about how sad they are about their "close friend" being gone. meanwhile, he is still dead and they are making records/going on tour/getting google hits, etc. where the hell were they all when he was dying? pfffft.

Bingo! I have to agree with this. I do believe there are some that are truly devastated by his loss, but in many cases some are just trying to reinforce/convince others that they had a "close" relationship with the man. IMO - Tamron should've kept this private. Although, in this day and age, most people don't know what real privacy is anyways.

I'm glad to hear Tamron is getting therapy to help her cope with the loss of Prince, whom she was very close to. I lost my Mom 2-1/2 years ago and it still hurts. I was in therapy for 2-years. I miss her every day. You never really get over the loss of a loved one; you just learn to deal with it. They say "time heals all wounds". It takes time....a lot of time!! I sincerely wish her the best.<3

NinaB said:

NorthC said:

It probably is. They look like white lions to me and you don't see an awful lot of those in the wild. I know there are a few private reserves in SA that have them, so these are most likely not wild lions.

NorthC said:

NinaB said:

Look at it this way: a white lion's colour makes him/her stand out, so (s)he is going to have trouble hunting and therefore surviving. That's why they are rare and if there's reserves keeping these unique white lions (there's also white tigers) alive, then that's better than them dying out, don't you think?
(I'm sorry, I just find this subject more interesting than this Tamron Hall lady.)

Those people are not at a reserve with their backs to a lion. Even in a zoo a lion will stalk you with your back to it, it's their job. Check YT. That's all I'm talking about. I wonder if that's a back drop or a very clear glass.


I'm kind of jealous they're besties. Well not jealous, I wouldn't want to deny her that, I just would like to know what that would be like.

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morningsong said:

Imagine Prince running away at the mouth for hours, and as comical as he was too. That must have been a sight.

XxAxX said:

morningsong said:

Imagine Prince running away at the mouth for hours, and as comical as he was too. That must have been a sight.

I could do it.

Well, could've at least.

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terrig said:

i find all of prince's 'close friends' lacking. all of them are amazingly well placed with media but short on knowing he was in trouble.

i'm feeling salty about all these 'close friends' getting their google results fluffed out... yet our genius is no longer..maybe ihad too many margeritas tonight

They knew, they knew... I was saying for years Prince was sick and probably on something, but the people around him were acting as though everything was fine. So many threads got locked because as the mods said 'Everybody knows Prince doesn't do drugs' or 'Prince is fine so stop it'. And now he's gone.

Van Jones gave an interview where he was crying and said he felt guilt, that he wondered what he should have done or could have done. I haven't seen another expression of guilt from any of these friends who talked to P daily. But after the fentanyl ME report, the NYT Sunday Style section had an almost page long article about Tamron's new apartment. I don't watch tv news so I'd neve heard of her before her discussions about P.

babynoz said:

I am glad she got some help because I was concerned after he asked her to come to him and she didn't go. After he passed maybe it crossed her mind that he could have been reaching out to her for something more than what she thought. It has to be affecting her that she did not go to him.

I don't believe that it was an exaggeration that they talked every day. He called in to the Today Show and pretty much confirmed it, even telling her what to wear and how to do her hair.

Even on vacation he kept up with her.....

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Exactly! And I follow CurlyNikki and remembered when she originally posted that pic.

People want to talk about how close he was with all these folks that was in his life like 25-45 years ago and that's fine but want to so easily dismis his friendship with Tamron, as if it didn't exist.

morningsong said:

Did anyone else note that these people are standing with their backs to lions in a tree?

I'm just looking, thinking, that's got to be a picture backdrop.

No it's not a backdrop. They were on safari.

They even got to take pics where they were sitting down touching the "big cats"/

terrig said:

QueenofPurplePalace said:

terrig said: I felt the same way until a friend of mine spun it in a different perspective. Would Prince drop everything for them? For example when sweet Vanity died he wasn't going to cancel his tour to goto her family but he did send his love. Tamron loved him for sure but after listening to her describe their relationship it seemed like they were long distance close friends. Plus she and the others have jobs. But either way i feel you and your anger is justified because some "friends" are milking this for attention.

I think their grief is real and valid - but all the media posturing and 'performance grief' is queasy-making. It's like lights, camera, "I was Princes friend (please speculate on whether it was romantic - google my name and get me socila media points)...snif sniff'

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Well you can say that for ALL of them. Apples, JJ, Judith, Mani, Mayte, Van Jones, Spike Lee, I mean, all these people are suffering and miss him and all of them had relationships with him.

Shoot, Morris Day post pics of Prince everyday all through the day. Now, at first I knew he was posting for the Prince fans on his FB page but even now, he is still posting. That is how he helps with his grief.

Everybody is going to have good memories of him and only talk about those memories. Whether they knew him in 2014 or in junior high school. Who are we to judge?