HotLips
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Post by HotLips on Jun 20, 2006 0:35:14 GMT -4
Natasha Lyonne is still crazy, homeless, and on drugs. Sad. I was hoping that, since we hadn't heard anything about her recently, she'd gone into treatment or something.
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kafka
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Post by kafka on Jul 27, 2006 6:44:07 GMT -4
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson isn't well known on this continent but, in England, she's the original Paris Hilton-type, heiress-type, party girl. One who used to have a $600 a day coke habit, and that was at the prices of a decade ago. This week, and several years of sobriety later, she got her nose fixed after it had collapsed. The link includes Before and After pictures, but frankly, they don't show half of what she'd turned into. <twitch>A paragraph which makes me wince and cringe: "During the three-hour procedure, she had cartilage taken from her right ear and inserted into the nasal septum." The procedure cost about $13,000. (Give or take a bit. I'm rusty on the current exchange rate.) One of LiHo's handlers should give her the story, because Lindsay is definitely heading Tara's way.
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huntergrayson
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Post by huntergrayson on Jul 27, 2006 6:58:38 GMT -4
Okay, I know nothing of what coke used to cost in England a decade ago, but how much blow is that, really? Are we talking at least an 8ball a day just for her? Because if so, holy shit, that's a lot of blow. Honestly, that's like, doing nothing but cutting and snorting lines all day.
Anyone here who dealt in England back then care to help figure out the amounts?
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esoterica
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Post by esoterica on Jul 27, 2006 9:55:39 GMT -4
I'm just curious- does anyone REALLY believe that LiLo doesn't do drugs? How many times has she been hospitalized for Hollywood ailments such as "exhaustion"? The fact that her eyes are so dead just speaks volumes.
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kafka
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Post by kafka on Jul 27, 2006 21:48:20 GMT -4
Okay, I know nothing of what coke used to cost in England a decade ago, but how much blow is that, really? Are we talking at least an 8ball a day just for her? Because if so, holy shit, that's a lot of blow. Honestly, that's like, doing nothing but cutting and snorting lines all day. Anyone here who dealt in England back then care to help figure out the amounts? Hunter, I don't know anything about drugs, let alone the amount of an 8ball, but I did some digging for you and found this (complete with frightening photo) on Tara PT. Seems I was mistaken on the scope of her prior drug habit as it was a £400-a-day habit, which translates to about $900, not $500 or $600 a day. (Depending on the currency rates back then, it could be even more.) Anyway, about her drug use and the nose collapse: On AmIAnnoying, they state she was addicted to coke *and* Rohypnol and that her coke use was 8 grams a day!
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huntergrayson
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Post by huntergrayson on Jul 27, 2006 21:54:02 GMT -4
More than five grams *a day*? Wow. Just wow. Seriously, how did she not die?
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kafka
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Post by kafka on Jul 27, 2006 22:04:35 GMT -4
More than five grams *a day*? Wow. Just wow. Seriously, how did she not die? Don't laugh at me, my ignorance and my naivete, but how many lines in a gram? In the movies, when you see those mirrored things with 3 lines on them, what does that translate to in terms of amount? On second thought, forget it. I have absolutely *no* sense of measurement (hence my Penis Length system for some things) or quantity, so anything you say will probably still be foggy to me.
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huntergrayson
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Post by huntergrayson on Jul 27, 2006 22:20:50 GMT -4
I'm really bad with measurements as well, nor an expert in these things, Kafka, so let's try this analogy. An eight-ball is 3.5 grams, I think. For normal people, that's an *entire weekend* of powdered fun - among at least 3-4 "partiers." For this woman, it wasn't even enough to get her through *a day*. She was doing well over 50-60 (huge) lines per day. So I'm amazed she didn't die.
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Post by bklynred on Jul 27, 2006 22:30:16 GMT -4
That is so disturbing. They filled her nose in with ear cartilage....? Why do I insist on clicking the links in the dark, right before bed? It's a compulsion. Sigh.
ETA: now that she's clean--assuming she is, I hope she stays that way. If she tries to use the way she did in the past, it could go really wrong really fast. That's a ton of coke.
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kafka
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Post by kafka on Jul 27, 2006 22:40:11 GMT -4
For this woman, it wasn't even enough to get her through *a day*. She was doing well over 50-60 (huge) lines per day. <blinks>Holy Mother of God!! Please tell me these are the calculations for the 8 grams a day estimate, not the 5 grams, because I'd faint if you added any more to that number of lines. Whatever one may say about LiLo or even Paris, her closest American parallel, neither one seems to have been a junkie out of Johnny Depp's Blow. But TPT is a very unusual sort. She's dated everyone from Robbie Williams to James Blunt and God knows who else. Yet, she's really close to Harry & William, since her father is one of Prince Charles' closest friends, and was actually invited to his wedding to Camilla. But then she goes on garbage reality shows like "I'm a Celebrity--- get me out of here." Then again, she's supposedly a concert-level pianist. A walking paradox in a lot of ways, unlike Paris who is truly just worthless. I think I have to go contemplate this 50 to 60 lines-a-day thing for a while. My mind isn't capable of processing those sorts of numbers. (And I had a college aquaintance who had to have a gold plate put into his nose because of his coke habit. But he never did anything like this!)
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