FlyOnTheWall said:

indyangel66 said:

laurarichardson said:

haleno1 said:

PennyPurple said:

indyangel66 said:

I know that they both were in denial when they were O.W When u lose a child no matter what age you want to blame everyone even yourself.And without support from family it's hard He had no one to cry to' Just wrapped himself in his work. So o o very heartbreaking. .

He had his wife who he could've turned to. We know she needed him at the time....but like you said, he just wrapped himself up in his work.

And I think that music was like a wife to him because he really was married to his music. Not to say that he didn't wholeheartedly love Mayte, because I believe that he did, but I also believe that he was simultaneously married to his music. Music was his love, his escape, and his work.

Namelessfan said:

What a waste of time.

luvgirl said:

Namelessfan said:

I haven't watched it and I won't. I think it's revolting that CNN would make such a show about a recently deceased person who means so much to so many people. It's the lowest form of "journalism" - absolutely shameful.

I totally agree with you. I got sucked into watching it because I miss him and would have just about watched anything to see his face on television again. Instead of this inconsiderate drivel, It should have been a respectful documentary about his prolific life.

Spike Lee might do him justice. Or the people who do "The American Masters" series for PBS.

ludwig said:

ludwig said:

rogifan said:

206Michelle said:

One of the women interviewed, Alisyn Camerota, said something to the effect of "many believe it [death of his son] was something he never got over."

A musician friend of mine, who had a place in Spain around this time, would often see Prince walking around. He told me that after the child's death, Prince looked very sad and distant to the point of seeming numb - very understandable, obviously.

morningsong said:

There should be a trigger warning, for those who haven't watched but will -

last 5 minutes or so they re-broadcast a "Breaking News" clip from 4/21. IT WILL TAKE YOU BACK. LOOK AWAY!!!

morningsong said:

laurarichardson said:

rogifan said:

morningsong said:

IMHO it wasn't negative at all, but it will open wounds. I'm not angry or upset I saw it.

I guess I don't understand why people would watch something that will open wounds or make them upset/angry (not referring to you). It's not like what it was about was a surprise to anyone (or that there was any new credible information in it).

More TMZ garbage.

2freaky4church1 said:

rogifan said:

Just curious why the mods felt this needed to be a sticky. 😔

morningsong said:

2freaky4church1 said:

More TMZ garbage.

No it wasn't. There are things they could have said to make it more slanderous and they cleaned it up or omitted it, things we've read several times. Definitely not a TMZ move.

The show seemed to be a decent accounting of what transpired. When the investigative reporter, Ian Halperin stated how did this happen and said it was enablers who were greedy. This seemed like a fair assessment considering the fact that Prince was left alone at Paisley on 4/20 after all that happened with him in the prior week. I have felt that just leaving him alone showed an indifference on the part of the staff he was surrounded with.

rogifan said:

It was totally unnecessary for Sara Sidner to relay the anecdote that Duane and Lorna Nelson told their lawyer that Prince was abusing Percocet. Both Duane and Lorna are no longer alive to confirm or deny these claims and by Sidner bringing it up, it allowed her to make Prince out to be a drug addict without saying he was a drug addict. That's why I knew this special was a joke from day 1. The investigative journalist took a lot of liberty with what Prince said in concert on April 14th. With the exception of Owen Husney, Andre Cymone, Van Jones and Chazz Smith, the contributors on this special were pointless.

Again, nothing that they said on this program is anything new to us on the Org.

vuvuzela said:

There should be a trigger warning, for those who haven't watched but will -

last 5 minutes or so they re-broadcast a "Breaking News" clip from 4/21. IT WILL TAKE YOU BACK. LOOK AWAY!!!

I felt there wasn't much that wasn't chronicled before, but I certainly found the last 5 or 10 minutes to be difficult to watch. It certainly "took me back". Otherwise, I don't feel the show was negative. I think CNN overwhelmingly framed the death as accidental due to an addiction to pain medicine to treat severe pain. And all of the people that were "interviewed" seemed to genuinely have affection for Prince and spoked overwhelmingly fondly of him.

Oh well, I guess we all have our perspective...

I didn't go through every post in this thread, but the most telling thing I heard was that the pills he took were mislabled, and my takeaway was that it was mislabled in a way that seemed to be on purpose. If this is actually the case, it's quite troubling that it's logical to think that he was purposely given a bottle of pills that were labled as percocet or hydrocodone or whatever, but the pills were actually lethal doses of fentanyl. Extremely troubling, and I now look back on all of the conspiracy theories that evolved initially with a more open mind.

blizzybiz said: