See bold print on Andy's televised response to Edie's death.
I didn't say he (Andy) made her do drugs or that he was the sole reason her life became 'ruined.' -But he certainly encouraged the drug use (its documented in several books)--read 'The Ghastly One' and other books about the Manhattan scene at that time-most Andy Warhol books are just fluff-they don't reveal his true character-he used people over and over and over again.
She sent him a nice card when he got shot because she is a NICE person-he never sent her cards the many times she was in the hospital. And in fact on receiving the news of her death in a television interview from the 1970's (I couldn't find it on you tube)-he said something of the sort as 'oh really i hadn't heard, well i didn't really know her too well anyways, we were never really close.' What a lying, rude bastard.
It was very obvious that she wanted her dad, Fuzzy, to be proud of her and for him to actually tell her he was proud of her (to at least have the common decency to verbally and affectionately acknowledge it)-but her sculptures were nothing compared to his (according to him because he was so macho) and so I think she pretty much dropped out of college before she started doing drugs or anything wild simply because she admired her father's artistic abilities and she wanted to follow in his footsteps and he didn't take it as a compliment that she admired him so much as she wanted to be like him. I am sure it was quite a blow and so she gave up on sculpting. She excelled at everything she did as a child and was even doing very well at college--But one can only try for so many years to try and get the love and affection from the person they love most in the world before they finally turn numb and in her situation she began to self-destruct part in case because of Fuzzy (who she would talk about endlessly with love and affection in interviews and to friends), because Minty's death (who she believed killed himself because he was a homosexual and would be ousted from the family because of Fuzzy's disapproval), and then of course the accident in which her other brother was killed. (OTHER POSSIBLE CONSIDERATIONS INTO WHY SHE BECAME A SELF-DESTRUCTIVE DRUG ADDICT: her father started her in on daily doses of
Barbiturates after she caught him having sex with another woman and in order to cover his *** he claimed she just had a wild imagination and kept her sedated through much of her teenage life; also she has an addictive personality; and she was probably bi-polar and all they had then was lithium; most people were never properly diagnosed because back then it wasn't a thoroughly understood disorder. I'm sure she was never diagnosed-but most bi-polars or manic depressives love to be manic and Edie could keep that amazing manic feeling going for days on speed. Mania makes people feel good and excited about life. (I should know, I am bi-polar and I know how without proper medication-people that suffer from this chemical imbalance self-medicate usually with uppers until they wear themselves out.)
Who did she have to turn to for love and comfort? Most of the people she thought were her friends were quite the fair-weathered type (never supporting her through times of great depression.) So her friend, the one that never failed to make her happy was speed.
My point about him not paying her for her participation in his films in which he promised her he would-(Oh poor Andy had no money...wah wah)---PLEASE. And later when he did have money, he could have sent her a check-it's not like he could've forgotten to pay her as he had a diarist record every mundane second of his life in "The Andy Warhol Diaries." And she wasn't just making Warhol's movies just "for fun,"-quite the contrary, she was doing them for artistic purposes-she wanted to be a part of this art movement and scene. As it has been popularly reported as soon as Edie started considering and negotiating other offers for (paid) film work and modeling-Andy felt betrayed and dropped her. He didn't own her, they could have still worked together with her doing other projects, but she was looking for other artistic opportunities-ones in which I'm sure the client would actually pay her for her work...But there's just more proof for you then on just how selfish, jealous and rude Andy was...a control freak....his way or the high way....
And she didn't use people to score drugs. To be quite frank, she had sex with dealers as a means to pay if she had no money--so she traded, bartered-not used people. After all the money she spent on Andy and her Manhattan friends, I wouldn't even consider labeling her as someone who used people for drugs-for all she did for everyone else, she deserved all the free drugs she wanted. Not all druggies use people, although I do believe a great majority do. But she was no crackpot off the street, she had money-even after her inheritance ran out she had enough money for her cheap apartment and drugs (speed has always been cheap.) Heroin was the expensive one-but I think she did that only when she absolutely had to come down and get sleep.
I agree that Edie was very intelligent but Warhol didn't make her do drugs. He may have had friends that did drugs and that introduced her to them but he never made her do them. Also, Andy didn't have enough money to pay Edie and from what i understand she didn't care about not being paid for her work because she was just doing it for fun. But, when her inheritance ran out she needed money and he couldn't pay her so they parted ways. There may have been tension between them but not as much as people think. I mean, if she hated him and he ruined her life then why didn she send him a such a nice card when he was shot? And i don't think it was that important to her to impress her dad because when he disapproved of her lifestyle in New York she didn't change a bit. And i don't think that Edie needed to use people for much but i'm almost positive that when she was heavily into drugs she used people to score because that's a trait of almost all drug addicts.
I agree that Edie was very intelligent but Warhol didn't make her do drugs. He may have had friends that did drugs and that introduced her to them but he never made her do them. Also, Andy didn't have enough money to pay Edie and from what i understand she didn't care about not being paid for her work because she was just doing it for fun. But, when her inheritance ran out she needed money and he couldn't pay her so they parted ways. There may have been tension between them but not as much as people think. I mean, if she hated him and he ruined her life then why didn she send him a such a nice card when he was shot? And i don't think it was that important to her to impress her dad because when he disapproved of her lifestyle in New York she didn't change a bit. And i don't think that Edie needed to use people for much but i'm almost positive that when she was heavily into drugs she used people to score because that's a trait of almost all drug addicts.
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