I read somewhere that she would nod out like this with her friend Jim Morrison at Max's Kansas City in New York. I guess they had both taken heroin or something. NYC in the late 1960s and 1970s, right up until Studio 54 collapsed... There were many crazy places like that. I wonder what it was really like. I don't know about Jim, but Edie's troubles started long before she even arrived in New York. She had been committed to a psychiatric hospital in 1960 to '62, before she went to art school.
Throwing my own two cents in here. Warhol BEGGED her not to go to Woodstock with Bobby. She wanted something more from him than he could give her, and when she couldn't get it, She set out to hurt him for it. Because thats what she had been taught. "Get your way or make them pay." He was in N.Y.C. when she mounted the white horse AT WOODSTOCK. When she came back she was already addicted, Lots of people made a really bad choice, and once your there you can no longer see the problem. Her choice.
I remember reading a biography on Edie back in the 80s. The book said that by the time she died, her brain was full of holes like swiss cheese which is why her behavior was so erratic
@carathebaker No. Her brother Jonathan said that the x-rays of her brain looked like a Swiss cheese. But Jonathan said a lot of things at the time, he is not a neurosurgeon or a doctor, and that's just his opinion among many people's. Edie was in a bad way even by late 1967, but I think she recovered somewhat during her last year.
Andy Warhol had nothing to do with Edie's death on November 16, 1971. It was Edie who abandoned Andy in 1966, not the other way around. She wanted to move on and do something else. And, while Edie was an adult and responsible for her own actions and choices, it wasn't that clear cut, you know, reality seldom is, because she probably had a bipolar disorder, and other issues, and her drug abuse might have been a form of self-medication. I think it's unfair to put the blame on her or anyone else.
You know, what no one seems to remember is that Warhol was widely suggested as being autistic in some manner or form. How his mother moved back in with him and all, how he had this strange fascination for people. I think he was faced with the harsh reality of what Edie was doing (which I believe was influenced somewhat by others in the Factory) and he was frightened. Of course he should have spoken to her - but I don't think he was able to.
Live fast....Die Young... Leave a "good-looking" corpse. Dying is really the best marketing strategy... What is this girl talent? Shooting up heroin? Looking good? Maybe its doing both at the same time....PLease explain!
I love Edie, and I love Andy. However, I fail, still, to understand how anyone can see her demise as his responsibility. Really. At what what point are not responsible for our own actions??
Though, now that I think of it... I was half-way to becoming a junkie myself before I met someone with, for some reason, a will to save me. Without this person, who is now lost forever to me, I would probably be dead or in prison. Hmmm.
However, I still see it a question of luck,and personal responsibility.
i was born in 64, and i first heard of edie in a biographical book and i cried my eyes out because i fell so deeply in love with her and it's agony to know she lived and died and i didn't know her. i know it sounds creepy,but, i don't care what any of you think.edie was a rare and exotic presense on dirt ball of a world.
Warhole used Edie then threw her under the bus when she swung to Dylan, Andy couldn't handle the fact that just because he was gay he was sad lil boy because Edie also liked men.
THERE WERE NO ILLEGAL DRUGS IN EDIE'S SYSTEM WHEN SHE DIED, IN CA, NO ONE ON THIS TAPE HAD SEEN HER FOR 3 YEARS AND IDEA WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE! They are nothing but publicity seekers! They weren't in the same state, or even on the same COAST as Edie when she died!
The man speaking wasn't even around when Edie died, so he had no idea what she looked like. Nor was Warhol around. She did spiral down after the death of her Father, but for the most part she was clean when she died with the exception of prescription drugs that were mixed w/alcohol the nite of her death. She could have died from her eating disorder, or a combination of all 3, prescription drugs, alcohol, & a lifetime eating disorder, which takes a toll on the heart & entire system .
I think the only real problem was that Edie wasn't really payed for any of the films she made because people didn't think to ask back then. I mean they didn't think much would come of any of this. Now a days Edie could have made a lot more money just for showing up to parties. But that's not how it was back then. That was probably the biggest mistake. Not really sure who should be to blame. But you know. I probably shouldn't even post this but whatever.
@emilysacat I don't think Edie would have made money for showing up to parties today because she wasn't someone like Paris Hilton, who is a household name, as opposed to just famous among her own social circles. Edie didn't ask for payment until she lost her inheritance mainly because she and Warhol's films were really artistic pursuits, not business ventures. Andy was losing more on the films than he gained and he virtually never paid anyone anything. People weren't with him for that reason.
@emilysacat I know,can U imagin Edie todoy?Millions,but would she be the same Edie?She was so witty,talented&beautiful but still fragile.With$&the same demons the story might have ended the same if indeed there was still a story.
Miapink12 thanks so much for all your videos, they are fabulous! also i saw some of your art on your site looks great! very warhol and very modern at the same time... a mix of trippy 60's and some modern design.
Well years of drug abuse and once you go sober for sometime and you take drugs again your body can't handle it! Edie should have died way before she did she was a lucky girl. I look past all the drug use when it comes to talking about Edie cause if you've read her biography and Girl on Fire and Factory Girl you can see what kind of mind this woman had ver intelligent and out of this world with her thought i believe she was an alien! Still beautiful
@pyschyamind You read the books "acute barbituate intoxication potentiated by ethanol intoxication" & "barbituate overdose" is on the coroner's report. Her husband was "in charge" of dispensing her meds, she said she was going to leave him that night, he was passive aggressive &very angry with Edie by his own admission , he never called 911, but called NYC saying "I killed my baby" over & over...not saying he killed her, but how did she OD when he was in charge of her meds?
Drella was not responsible for Edie's death, she was "in control" of her own life. Besides, you can not control people like her, they do what they want to, and should. If she had survived until now she would not be half as fascinating as she is. Thank you for posting this.
@MrSueVeneer You have a very good point in that Edie was so much an independent, free-thinking, "mind of her own" person that the allegations of Warhol exploiting her do a great disservice to her own memory as well. Edie wasn't admired for being an innocent, passive, pawn of a muse, people loved her because she couldn't be lead.
She was clean but for her medication and alcohol, which wasn't considered a "drug" at the time. If her husband was in charge of dispensing her medication, & she was fine that night (?) It certianly doesn't make sense that she would die from mixing alcohol with a medication she had been taking all of her life & had a huge tolerance to, especially in light of all the crazy drugs she used earlier! It's not like anyone looked into it, they didn't even have her correct DOB on the coroners report!
Ronald Tavel & these people have no idea how Edie looked before she died! She looked fresh & beautiful at her wedding 4 mo before she died! There is no telling what killed Edie, it could have been years & years of anorexia taking it's toll. Her heart could have simply given out due to years of prior drug abuse. Edie was CLEAN when she died, "acute barbituate intoxication potentiated by ethanol" the barbituates were prescribed & her husband was in charge of dispensing them.
Oh my God!, it's very very sad to see Edie in 0:36. She's falling asleep completely drugged. It's pitiful to see a young and beautiful woman who has the key for the success in her hands falling in the hell of the drugs. Drugs are the worse thing of the world.
@Bongogato It's just a movie she filmed called Lupe, it's not really footage of her "nodding out" , the whole interview is very misleading, she looked very fresh when she died, the "bedraggled" photo was taken 4 years before she died in NYC after the Chelsea fire.
If you are in the right mind about forming a comment on here why dont you use your fucking brains and stop doing the shit, I mean come on its a video documenting the death of a user
@fuckyou1458 This video is extremely misleading in soooo many ways! When Edie died she was no where near Warhol or any of the people speaking in this video! They had NO idea what she looked like or what she was doing! She was in CA, not NYC. Edie was married & her husband gave her prescribed medication & said she began beathing roughly, which he attribtued to her heavy smoking, & she had been drinking that night. There was nothing unusal about the night she died.
@fuckyou1458 Edie left NYC in late Fall of 1968 & moved to CA, no one in this video had seen her since then, she died Nov. 16 1971 in CA. She was out drinking the night she died, & she was given her prescribed meds by her husband, who said she began breathing roughly, & he attributed that to her heavy smoking. The point is, there were NO illegal drugs in her system the night she died!!!! No one in this video had seen her for AT LEAST 3 YEARS!!!!! They had no idea what she looked, etc!!!
If someone used you and was inspired by you as their muse, don't they deserve friendship, kindness, and caring when they need it most? Shame on you Andy!!!
Viceroy. Sometimes Benson and Hedges. About 50 a day. Her husband recounts that on the night of her death she seemed to be rasping and gasping for air while she slept, but her years of smoking had often made her breathing sound like that so he thought nothing of it and went to sleep. When he woke in the AM she was dead.
i read a biography on edie and the drugs she took weren't street drugs in fact her new husband Michael Post hAd given edie sleeping pills like every night as usual. It was supposed to be their 4 month anniversary together and she had fallen asleep face down. She kind of suffocated (her breathing was laboured the night before when they got back from a fashion show)...i know she did street drugs, that's a given...Michael must have given her n overdose of sleeping pills...i don't know...
No one can understand Edie in our current facile culture. She was a template, a metaphor, a palimpsest of her era; so many threads of the American narrative ran through her story...Her family, in fact, was older than America. Actually they were older than the throne of England. The Sedgwicks go back to the Ninth Century. her mother's family founded the Dutch West India Company which founded New Amsterdam i.e. New York..At every momentous event in the first 3 centuries of U.S. history her
ancestors were present. Commerce, education, the arts, government, law, finance--they were there. Presenting this fact is not a bow to snobbery, it just merely acknowledges that her problems were not the kind that can be quickly processed and "functioned" by our contemporary sensibilities..Our cultural touchstones are those Sex in the City twats and hotel heiresses who hang out with billionaire rap trash.Edie would have never made a "sex tape''-unless it was in the service of art lol.
Oh for goodness sake, you write as if you are intelligent and then you end with "lol". You are ridiculous. Why do you feel the need to make people believe you are smart?
It is rather unfortunate that articulate expression involving a bit of erudition brings out the worst in you, mrstrick24. If the problem is a short attention span, there are helpful medications for that.( Alas, there are none for a low I.Q.) And my last "lol" comment was merely an observation that Edie would never have to resort to the cheap gimmicks that the current crop of celebutard Hollywood -hooker-heiresses have to. She was a Somebody, they are nobodies from nowhere with with some dough.
people have got to remember that ..it probably won't have been all andy's fault but her own too and i don't feel i can blame someone that i never knew that goes for both edie and andy
@Miapink12 I have to agree. The concept of prescriptions was and still is "better living through chemistry". Her parents were on drugs prescribed by doctors and they in turn addicted much of their children by forcing the drugs down their throats.
granted, addicts must take responsibility for their own actions, but warhol was an energy and soul vampire who sucked the life out of edie and others and then discarded them like so many tissues!! listen to his interviews about edie, he acts like they hardly knew each other, what a bastard! when he found he wasn't going to get what he wanted from edie (rich clients, and maybe hollywood?), he dumped her, and wouldn't even take her calls, didn't help her at all financially, and didn't care.
Oh Yeah, I remember reffering to Andy as an energy sucker, then i see documentaries and discover that they actually called Andy Warhol Drella..I'm not siding with either though either. I love & believe Edie was art all in herself & think Andy was talented & clever.
Saying Andy "sucked the life out of Edie" implies it was a one-way exchange, which it wasn't. Warhol used Edie as a muse and art subject and she used him as a means of expressing herself and gaining fame. He didn't discard her either, they ended with an argument over money and Edie never returned. He could have done more to help her, but she could have done the same regarding the others around her and their personal and drug problems; she was far from the only one in that scene with issues.
xxpinkgoddessxx- if you consider witholding money you owe a 'friend' as she's cold and hungry and can't pay her rent, as being a decent person, then there's nothing left to say to you. he wouldn't take her calls, and said 'edie, who?'. edie couldn't help herself, much less anyone else, she was an addict! she was damaged, fragile, and vulnerable, and that's what attracted warhol to her, that and all her money. he was a zombie without a soul, a taker, a self-impressed, cruel, heartless queen.
Saying Andy "sucked the life out of Edie" implies it was a one-way exchange, which it wasn't. Warhol used Edie as a muse and art subject and she used him as a means of expressing herself and gaining fame. He didn't discard her either, they ended with an argument over money and Edie never returned. He could have done more to help her, but she could have done the same regarding the others around her and their personal and drug problems; she was far from the only one in that scene with issues.
@laceydays No, that's not correct. In fact Edie dumped Andy. It was she who left abruptly some time in early 1966. It was she herself who got deeper and deeper into drugs, encouraged by people at The Factory and some of her boyfriends and acquaintances, but not by Andy Warhol. It was nobody's fault, really. You have got to remember she was in a terrible state emotionally and mentally unstable, and the cocktail of drugs, medication and alcohol only made it worse.
@laceydays There is actually a tape of Bridge (Bridgette) telling Andy of Edie's death, I quote it for you if you like. Basically he asks if HE (supposedly her young husband) will get it all, then changes the subject, he clearly shows no emotion one way or the other over her death, but that is typical Andy.
@ I can whole heartily agree with your view, I knew Edie, my Mom was her nurse at Dante's Mental Hospital in Santa Barbara, CA. Edie came to our Home often, she was gentle & childlike. When she got better she married Michael Post and moved out on her own. Unfortunately soon after, she died in her sleep from a reaction to meds. for the Flu and Michael woke up to her gone in her sleep, So Sad... I know the true story about her Warhol hell days, he was a user of people for sure. God Bless, Leola
I read somewhere that she would nod out like this with her friend Jim Morrison at Max's Kansas City in New York. I guess they had both taken heroin or something. NYC in the late 1960s and 1970s, right up until Studio 54 collapsed... There were many crazy places like that. I wonder what it was really like. I don't know about Jim, but Edie's troubles started long before she even arrived in New York. She had been committed to a psychiatric hospital in 1960 to '62, before she went to art school.
MowgliX 2 weeks ago
Throwing my own two cents in here. Warhol BEGGED her not to go to Woodstock with Bobby. She wanted something more from him than he could give her, and when she couldn't get it, She set out to hurt him for it. Because thats what she had been taught. "Get your way or make them pay." He was in N.Y.C. when she mounted the white horse AT WOODSTOCK. When she came back she was already addicted, Lots of people made a really bad choice, and once your there you can no longer see the problem. Her choice.
ABlindAngel 1 month ago
she would have died of cigarette smoking she smoked so much its discusting
41gagavision 2 months ago
Edie had the one thing all of us have...choice
robwheelut 4 months ago
When you think about it, there's worse ways to go out than blissed out and beautiful...
stillmoretrippin 9 months ago 2
I remember reading a biography on Edie back in the 80s. The book said that by the time she died, her brain was full of holes like swiss cheese which is why her behavior was so erratic
carathebaker 10 months ago
@carathebaker No. Her brother Jonathan said that the x-rays of her brain looked like a Swiss cheese. But Jonathan said a lot of things at the time, he is not a neurosurgeon or a doctor, and that's just his opinion among many people's. Edie was in a bad way even by late 1967, but I think she recovered somewhat during her last year.
MowgliX 6 months ago
@MowgliX - Still, very sad and all that someone should die so young
carathebaker 6 months ago
Andy Warhol had nothing to do with Edie's death on November 16, 1971. It was Edie who abandoned Andy in 1966, not the other way around. She wanted to move on and do something else. And, while Edie was an adult and responsible for her own actions and choices, it wasn't that clear cut, you know, reality seldom is, because she probably had a bipolar disorder, and other issues, and her drug abuse might have been a form of self-medication. I think it's unfair to put the blame on her or anyone else.
MowgliX 10 months ago 3
You know, what no one seems to remember is that Warhol was widely suggested as being autistic in some manner or form. How his mother moved back in with him and all, how he had this strange fascination for people. I think he was faced with the harsh reality of what Edie was doing (which I believe was influenced somewhat by others in the Factory) and he was frightened. Of course he should have spoken to her - but I don't think he was able to.
seedieedgwick 11 months ago
@seedieedgwick Warhol couldn't handle much before but it became worse after he was shot.
Maoszman 6 months ago
Live fast....Die Young... Leave a "good-looking" corpse. Dying is really the best marketing strategy... What is this girl talent? Shooting up heroin? Looking good? Maybe its doing both at the same time....PLease explain!
lunatik1968 1 year ago
I love Edie, and I love Andy. However, I fail, still, to understand how anyone can see her demise as his responsibility. Really. At what what point are not responsible for our own actions??
Though, now that I think of it... I was half-way to becoming a junkie myself before I met someone with, for some reason, a will to save me. Without this person, who is now lost forever to me, I would probably be dead or in prison. Hmmm.
However, I still see it a question of luck,and personal responsibility.
apeet3101 1 year ago 3
this video is interesting, but totally obnoxious
for its generalizations, condemnations & wild speculations ...
nobody knows anything ... and therefore the mystique emerges ...
but i will say, that culture at that time, and Edie, were the originals ...
not the desperate and needy attention seeking trashy media & web-celebs
today ... like TMZ - Paris Hilton - Perez Hilton - What-the-Buck - Kim Kardashian
who are all the shallow imitations & wannbe derps of Edie & the Factory !!!
arsenicmyst 1 year ago 2
i was born in 64, and i first heard of edie in a biographical book and i cried my eyes out because i fell so deeply in love with her and it's agony to know she lived and died and i didn't know her. i know it sounds creepy,but, i don't care what any of you think.edie was a rare and exotic presense on dirt ball of a world.
frogg46 1 year ago 2
Warhole offers Edie $50.00 for appearing in his movie...
tskimmi 1 year ago
Warhole used Edie then threw her under the bus when she swung to Dylan, Andy couldn't handle the fact that just because he was gay he was sad lil boy because Edie also liked men.
tskimmi 1 year ago
she was an adult responsible for her own decisions, how has it become andy's fault she was a smack head??
mettabee 1 year ago
THERE WERE NO ILLEGAL DRUGS IN EDIE'S SYSTEM WHEN SHE DIED, IN CA, NO ONE ON THIS TAPE HAD SEEN HER FOR 3 YEARS AND IDEA WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE! They are nothing but publicity seekers! They weren't in the same state, or even on the same COAST as Edie when she died!
jarileigh 1 year ago 2
The man speaking wasn't even around when Edie died, so he had no idea what she looked like. Nor was Warhol around. She did spiral down after the death of her Father, but for the most part she was clean when she died with the exception of prescription drugs that were mixed w/alcohol the nite of her death. She could have died from her eating disorder, or a combination of all 3, prescription drugs, alcohol, & a lifetime eating disorder, which takes a toll on the heart & entire system .
jarileigh 1 year ago
I think the only real problem was that Edie wasn't really payed for any of the films she made because people didn't think to ask back then. I mean they didn't think much would come of any of this. Now a days Edie could have made a lot more money just for showing up to parties. But that's not how it was back then. That was probably the biggest mistake. Not really sure who should be to blame. But you know. I probably shouldn't even post this but whatever.
emilysacat 1 year ago
@emilysacat I don't think Edie would have made money for showing up to parties today because she wasn't someone like Paris Hilton, who is a household name, as opposed to just famous among her own social circles. Edie didn't ask for payment until she lost her inheritance mainly because she and Warhol's films were really artistic pursuits, not business ventures. Andy was losing more on the films than he gained and he virtually never paid anyone anything. People weren't with him for that reason.
xXPinkGoddessXx 1 year ago
@emilysacat I know,can U imagin Edie todoy?Millions,but would she be the same Edie?She was so witty,talented&beautiful but still fragile.With$&the same demons the story might have ended the same if indeed there was still a story.
apokryphos117g 1 year ago
she killed herself..
familyguy410 1 year ago
Miapink12 thanks so much for all your videos, they are fabulous! also i saw some of your art on your site looks great! very warhol and very modern at the same time... a mix of trippy 60's and some modern design.
ChrissieBana 1 year ago
Well years of drug abuse and once you go sober for sometime and you take drugs again your body can't handle it! Edie should have died way before she did she was a lucky girl. I look past all the drug use when it comes to talking about Edie cause if you've read her biography and Girl on Fire and Factory Girl you can see what kind of mind this woman had ver intelligent and out of this world with her thought i believe she was an alien! Still beautiful
pyschyamind 1 year ago
@pyschyamind You read the books "acute barbituate intoxication potentiated by ethanol intoxication" & "barbituate overdose" is on the coroner's report. Her husband was "in charge" of dispensing her meds, she said she was going to leave him that night, he was passive aggressive &very angry with Edie by his own admission , he never called 911, but called NYC saying "I killed my baby" over & over...not saying he killed her, but how did she OD when he was in charge of her meds?
jarileigh 1 year ago
Drella was not responsible for Edie's death, she was "in control" of her own life. Besides, you can not control people like her, they do what they want to, and should. If she had survived until now she would not be half as fascinating as she is. Thank you for posting this.
MrSueVeneer 1 year ago 2
@MrSueVeneer You have a very good point in that Edie was so much an independent, free-thinking, "mind of her own" person that the allegations of Warhol exploiting her do a great disservice to her own memory as well. Edie wasn't admired for being an innocent, passive, pawn of a muse, people loved her because she couldn't be lead.
xXPinkGoddessXx 1 year ago
She was clean but for her medication and alcohol, which wasn't considered a "drug" at the time. If her husband was in charge of dispensing her medication, & she was fine that night (?) It certianly doesn't make sense that she would die from mixing alcohol with a medication she had been taking all of her life & had a huge tolerance to, especially in light of all the crazy drugs she used earlier! It's not like anyone looked into it, they didn't even have her correct DOB on the coroners report!
jarileigh 1 year ago
Ronald Tavel & these people have no idea how Edie looked before she died! She looked fresh & beautiful at her wedding 4 mo before she died! There is no telling what killed Edie, it could have been years & years of anorexia taking it's toll. Her heart could have simply given out due to years of prior drug abuse. Edie was CLEAN when she died, "acute barbituate intoxication potentiated by ethanol" the barbituates were prescribed & her husband was in charge of dispensing them.
jarileigh 1 year ago
Oh my God!, it's very very sad to see Edie in 0:36. She's falling asleep completely drugged. It's pitiful to see a young and beautiful woman who has the key for the success in her hands falling in the hell of the drugs. Drugs are the worse thing of the world.
Bongogato 1 year ago
@Bongogato It's just a movie she filmed called Lupe, it's not really footage of her "nodding out" , the whole interview is very misleading, she looked very fresh when she died, the "bedraggled" photo was taken 4 years before she died in NYC after the Chelsea fire.
jarileigh 1 year ago
If you are in the right mind about forming a comment on here why dont you use your fucking brains and stop doing the shit, I mean come on its a video documenting the death of a user
fuckyou1458 2 years ago 7
Maybe I should take this Down So everyone Can Calmn Down......Opinions Good Grief.
Miapink12 2 years ago 2
Lol its getting you hits
fuckyou1458 2 years ago
@fuckyou1458 This video is extremely misleading in soooo many ways! When Edie died she was no where near Warhol or any of the people speaking in this video! They had NO idea what she looked like or what she was doing! She was in CA, not NYC. Edie was married & her husband gave her prescribed medication & said she began beathing roughly, which he attribtued to her heavy smoking, & she had been drinking that night. There was nothing unusal about the night she died.
jarileigh 1 year ago
@fuckyou1458 Edie left NYC in late Fall of 1968 & moved to CA, no one in this video had seen her since then, she died Nov. 16 1971 in CA. She was out drinking the night she died, & she was given her prescribed meds by her husband, who said she began breathing roughly, & he attributed that to her heavy smoking. The point is, there were NO illegal drugs in her system the night she died!!!! No one in this video had seen her for AT LEAST 3 YEARS!!!!! They had no idea what she looked, etc!!!
jarileigh 1 year ago
Haunting.
ROCKSLIDZ 2 years ago 4
She wasn't 'falling asleep' ... she was on the way into the outer darkeness. I think 00:40 is incredibly sad.......
glossy104 2 years ago 3
it is. thats happen to mee sooo many times. your just so high on drugs you just pass out.
ecortez3 2 years ago 4
00:42: when shes falling asleep so funny yet cute yet also sad
kimberly150488 2 years ago
yeah that was nodding out from dope. not cute. i fell on a glass while nodding out and slashed open the skin in my eye socket cuz of that shit
TheUndergrnd 2 years ago 9
ouch. yeah i get really doped up and just end up passing out in my seat. its horrible watching edie like this, but i just cant seem to stop.
ecortez3 2 years ago 4
@TheUndergrnd I hope that you are doing well now.
MrThinwhiteduke1 1 year ago
Users call that, 'on the nod'. It occurs after one injects heroin. It's also a good way to set yourself on fire.
DeadBunny69 2 years ago 4
If someone used you and was inspired by you as their muse, don't they deserve friendship, kindness, and caring when they need it most? Shame on you Andy!!!
DANIGIRL66 2 years ago 2
What kind of ciggs did Edie Sedgwick somke?
Moniqueee15 2 years ago
Viceroy. Sometimes Benson and Hedges. About 50 a day. Her husband recounts that on the night of her death she seemed to be rasping and gasping for air while she slept, but her years of smoking had often made her breathing sound like that so he thought nothing of it and went to sleep. When he woke in the AM she was dead.
giannireb68 2 years ago 2
i read a biography on edie and the drugs she took weren't street drugs in fact her new husband Michael Post hAd given edie sleeping pills like every night as usual. It was supposed to be their 4 month anniversary together and she had fallen asleep face down. She kind of suffocated (her breathing was laboured the night before when they got back from a fashion show)...i know she did street drugs, that's a given...Michael must have given her n overdose of sleeping pills...i don't know...
missbabydoll187 2 years ago 3
yeah, he should have been a friend
gina888warhol1 2 years ago
No one can understand Edie in our current facile culture. She was a template, a metaphor, a palimpsest of her era; so many threads of the American narrative ran through her story...Her family, in fact, was older than America. Actually they were older than the throne of England. The Sedgwicks go back to the Ninth Century. her mother's family founded the Dutch West India Company which founded New Amsterdam i.e. New York..At every momentous event in the first 3 centuries of U.S. history her
giannireb68 2 years ago
ancestors were present. Commerce, education, the arts, government, law, finance--they were there. Presenting this fact is not a bow to snobbery, it just merely acknowledges that her problems were not the kind that can be quickly processed and "functioned" by our contemporary sensibilities..Our cultural touchstones are those Sex in the City twats and hotel heiresses who hang out with billionaire rap trash.Edie would have never made a "sex tape''-unless it was in the service of art lol.
giannireb68 2 years ago
Oh for goodness sake, you write as if you are intelligent and then you end with "lol". You are ridiculous. Why do you feel the need to make people believe you are smart?
mrstrick24 2 years ago
It is rather unfortunate that articulate expression involving a bit of erudition brings out the worst in you, mrstrick24. If the problem is a short attention span, there are helpful medications for that.( Alas, there are none for a low I.Q.) And my last "lol" comment was merely an observation that Edie would never have to resort to the cheap gimmicks that the current crop of celebutard Hollywood -hooker-heiresses have to. She was a Somebody, they are nobodies from nowhere with with some dough.
giannireb68 2 years ago 5
people have got to remember that ..it probably won't have been all andy's fault but her own too and i don't feel i can blame someone that i never knew that goes for both edie and andy
(god am i sitting on the fence or what ?)
RIP sedgwick and warhol xx
kis3323 2 years ago 6
There's nothing wrong with ur opinion..Edie's parents drugged her since she was a child, her downward spiral started a long time ago...
Miapink12 2 years ago 5
cheers..i knew that but ppl on youtube can be totally vicious when it comes to it :P
kis3323 2 years ago 2
That is right, Miapink!
creamstripe 2 years ago
@Miapink12 Agreed, I believe she was merely a victim of circumstance.
CookieNapper 1 year ago
@Miapink12 I have to agree. The concept of prescriptions was and still is "better living through chemistry". Her parents were on drugs prescribed by doctors and they in turn addicted much of their children by forcing the drugs down their throats.
Maoszman 6 months ago
Exactly - free will was involved.
Gaz0175 2 years ago
@kis3323 did he tie her down and shoot her up himself?
mettabee 1 year ago
granted, addicts must take responsibility for their own actions, but warhol was an energy and soul vampire who sucked the life out of edie and others and then discarded them like so many tissues!! listen to his interviews about edie, he acts like they hardly knew each other, what a bastard! when he found he wasn't going to get what he wanted from edie (rich clients, and maybe hollywood?), he dumped her, and wouldn't even take her calls, didn't help her at all financially, and didn't care.
laceydays 2 years ago 14
Oh Yeah, I remember reffering to Andy as an energy sucker, then i see documentaries and discover that they actually called Andy Warhol Drella..I'm not siding with either though either. I love & believe Edie was art all in herself & think Andy was talented & clever.
Miapink12 2 years ago
Saying Andy "sucked the life out of Edie" implies it was a one-way exchange, which it wasn't. Warhol used Edie as a muse and art subject and she used him as a means of expressing herself and gaining fame. He didn't discard her either, they ended with an argument over money and Edie never returned. He could have done more to help her, but she could have done the same regarding the others around her and their personal and drug problems; she was far from the only one in that scene with issues.
xXPinkGoddessXx 2 years ago
xxpinkgoddessxx- if you consider witholding money you owe a 'friend' as she's cold and hungry and can't pay her rent, as being a decent person, then there's nothing left to say to you. he wouldn't take her calls, and said 'edie, who?'. edie couldn't help herself, much less anyone else, she was an addict! she was damaged, fragile, and vulnerable, and that's what attracted warhol to her, that and all her money. he was a zombie without a soul, a taker, a self-impressed, cruel, heartless queen.
laceydays 2 years ago 3
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Saying Andy "sucked the life out of Edie" implies it was a one-way exchange, which it wasn't. Warhol used Edie as a muse and art subject and she used him as a means of expressing herself and gaining fame. He didn't discard her either, they ended with an argument over money and Edie never returned. He could have done more to help her, but she could have done the same regarding the others around her and their personal and drug problems; she was far from the only one in that scene with issues.
xXPinkGoddessXx 2 years ago
@laceydays No, that's not correct. In fact Edie dumped Andy. It was she who left abruptly some time in early 1966. It was she herself who got deeper and deeper into drugs, encouraged by people at The Factory and some of her boyfriends and acquaintances, but not by Andy Warhol. It was nobody's fault, really. You have got to remember she was in a terrible state emotionally and mentally unstable, and the cocktail of drugs, medication and alcohol only made it worse.
MowgliX 1 year ago
@laceydays There is actually a tape of Bridge (Bridgette) telling Andy of Edie's death, I quote it for you if you like. Basically he asks if HE (supposedly her young husband) will get it all, then changes the subject, he clearly shows no emotion one way or the other over her death, but that is typical Andy.
jarileigh 1 year ago
@ I can whole heartily agree with your view, I knew Edie, my Mom was her nurse at Dante's Mental Hospital in Santa Barbara, CA. Edie came to our Home often, she was gentle & childlike. When she got better she married Michael Post and moved out on her own. Unfortunately soon after, she died in her sleep from a reaction to meds. for the Flu and Michael woke up to her gone in her sleep, So Sad... I know the true story about her Warhol hell days, he was a user of people for sure. God Bless, Leola
LeolaDiane 2 months ago
@LeolaDiane I loved that comment. It was comforting somehow.
MowgliX 2 weeks ago
So sad.
Everyones blaming it on Warhol too.
In my opinion i don't think it was his fault.
Some ppl do hard drugs and they're fine after, but other ppl just can't take it.
R.I.P Edie<3
Moniqueee15 2 years ago
Yes, I agree I had a "friend" who wouldn't listen or always take my help, so you're Right...These DoCs are all just Commentary.
Miapink12 2 years ago
where can i find this documentary
loveandreag 3 years ago
Ovation Television Cable network for the Arts
Miapink12 3 years ago
god I love her
gina888warhol1 3 years ago 2
Sounds like Brigid!?/
gina888warhol1 3 years ago
Brigid Berlin? How?
Miapink12 3 years ago
Sad what a muse.(
gina888warhol1 3 years ago 4