Which Actors/Musicians Had Careers and Lives That Were Destroyed Completely by Drugs

[Fury]

"you have soft hands, Mr. Hooper. soft from counting money."

Now that's poetry.

Money in the...

 

[TCE]

Daniel Pollock - He was co-star in Romper Stomper with Russell Crowe in 1992. A few months after the movies release, he jumped infront of a train. He was just 23 years old. He was a heroin addict, and was battling depression, as well as a real life break up with Romper Stomper star Jacqueline McKenzie (Deep Blue Sea, etc.). Very tragic.

Corey Haim - Childhood star who acted in the Lost Boys, Silver Bullett, License to Drive, etc. got lost into the world of drugs, through childhood trauma from being a child actor, and sadly passed away at the young age of 38 years old in 2010.

Justin Pierce - Star of Next Friday and Kids tragically hanged himself at age 25. He was a keen skateboarder, but unfortunately was also a heroin addict. A break up with a girlfriend spiraled him into deep depression.

To a lesser extent - Corey Feldman and Macaulay Culkin.

 

[Kal-El]

Keith Whitley. His problems with alcohol gave his music an additional melancholy tone, which fits so well with country music. Unfortunately it killed him young though

 

[Kal-El]

Daniel Pollock - He was co-star in Romper Stomper with Russell Crowe in 1992. A few months after the movies release, he jumped infront of a train. He was just 23 years old. He was a heroin addict, and was battling depression, as well as a real life break up with Romper Stomper star Jacqueline McKenzie (Deep Blue Sea, etc.). Very tragic.

Corey Haim - Childhood star who acted in the Lost Boys, Silver Bullett, License to Drive, etc. got lost into the world of drugs, through childhood trauma from being a child actor, and sadly passed away at the young age of 38 years old in 2010.

Justin Pierce - Star of Next Friday and Kids tragically hanged himself at age 25. He was a keen skateboarder, but unfortunately was also a heroin addict. A break up with a girlfriend spiraled him into deep depression.

To a lesser extent - Corey Feldman and Macaulay Culkin.

I didn't know that about Daniel Pollock. I didn't even know his name. I saw that film many years ago, and his performance was the stand out, and that's next to Russell Crowe.
If i recall correctly it all falls apart for him in the film also, and he's wading into the water at the end. Knowing where his mind was at, it makes his emotional performance stand out even more so.

 

[HHJ]

How much time ya got, buddy?

 

[HHJ]

I obviously don't mean this the way it may come off but we wouldn't have had such brilliant AIC if it weren't for his drug abuse.

Yes they can only co-exist together.

 

[HHJ]

Layne was extremely talented...but its impossible to seperate the man from his art.

He was able to make art out of his extreme reality.

Kind of like GG Allin, but in a more poetic artistic way hahaha

Most of the shit he wrote about was being addicted, and that it would eventually destroy him.

I thought it was a profound and sometimes beautiful, sometimes sad example of art imitating life.

"Them bones are me..."

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Anyone name River Phoenix?

There is whole lot of actors and musicians.

 

[HHJ]

GG Allin od'd but he had wanted to kill himself onstage.


He definitley had no qualms about being self destructive about anything, it was his modus operandi.

So, I guess he doesn't really count.