April 17, 2006
In it was revealed that at his death in actress girlfriend Michelle Robinson's apartment, Sid was too fucked up to actually inject himself and asked her to do it. Concerned about his near-fatal overdose only hours before, she refused, and told Sid's mother and long time heroin addict, Anne Beverly, who was staying in another bedroom, about the situation. Anne asked Michelle to wait outside in the living room, went into the bedroom where Sid was, shut the door, and shot him up. She was a very experienced heroin user herself, and could not have injected him with that amount without knowing it would kill him, especially given he had just gone clean 55 days courtesy of the State of New York, which resulted in Sid OD'ing right in front of her earlier in the evening, on the same heroin. It's known that Sid's 55 days at Riker's Island were horrendous; he was apparently beaten and raped, and it's believed Anned mercy killed her son to save him from going back to prison if he was convicted of murdering Nancy Spungeon. This conclusion was based on current interviews with people who were there that night, and a close friend of Anne Beverly (all of whom spoke on camera) now speaking up ten years after Anne died of a heroin overdose herself in 1996. My question...anybody know anything else about this information, or the credibility of the TV series? My Google whispering skills failed.
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What does it mena that she was a "registered addict?"
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I don't really give a fuck about that scumbag. His mum reminds me of mine, however.
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TUM, I assume that addicts would have to register with a government agency to qualify for methadone treatment. Anyhow, I heard Courtney Love did it.
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Courtney couldn't have done it. There was no way for her to make money off of it.
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Au contraire, Pierre! It all fits together! Kill scuzzo, then launch career by acting in said scuzzo's appallingly romanticized biopic! Hiding in plain sight, and getting a SAG card to boot! The American dream, AND the perfect crime! I know, six in one hand...
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"registered addict?" This came up in the film as well; apparently Anne Beverly was told by a friend that if she was registered as 'heroin dependent' she would qualify for a free flat, so she switched from shooting speed (which she did with her son while he was still in his teens; she functioned more as drug buddy than a mother) to shooting dope. And she did get her free flat.
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It makes you wonder what her motivation was, really. Mercy for a damaged son she'd largely created? Or to remove the guilt for same? Maybe just an inability to think beyond the moment? Amazing how the whole Sid fiasco gets even weirder 27 years after his demise.
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That's true. You expect stories to become commonplace after a while, and when more and more odd details come out after time it adds a certain weirdness to what you remember about it.
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And while Sid Vicious loved the booze Poor Sid Viscous loved to ooze
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Zee lady, she knows all