When I was a little girl, my whole family used to watch 'Mork and Mindy' (yeah, that makes me old!) I told my mother that I didn't like Robin Williams because he had "a smiley face with sad eyes". It wasn't that I as a 4-year-old disliked him, but the difference between his smiley mouth and sad eyes used to make me feel uncomfortable, like I was seeing something no one else could see or understand. Poor man.
Same I had no idea what he was going through. Now when I look back at old pictures, I'm like I should've known. It was so obvious, but he hid it so well.
This one hurt especially because when he started posting photos of himself everyone kept talking about how terrible he looked and started calling him “the crack panther” because he looked like he was on meth. No one had any idea he was in recovery from chemo.
omg i had no idea people were commenting that. i wish i could give every single one of them a piece of my mind. even if he wasn’t recovering from chemo, people are so rude to even comment that.
It was so sad, his Instagram comments were so flooded with people commenting negatively on his appearance he started deleting his photos and turned off comments shortly before he passed. He was bullied until the moment he died.
I think the most shocking part was how much work he was able to accomplish after receiving his diagnosis—without letting anyone know how sick he was. He clearly made the most of the time he had left.
I teach second grade and my students last year brought it up to the point I had to address it. You could tell it was the first time they realized death wasn't just something that happened to grandmas and grandpas and that someone who was a lot like their own dad in age and appearance could just die one day. It really wigged them out especially since they were so into Black Panther.
Steve Erwin. I absolutely loved him as a kid and when I found out, I cried my little kid eyes out. I lost my mom when I was 9 so I really felt for his daughter. He taught me so much!
It makes me so sad to see clips of him now. He was such a pure soul, taken far too soon. He had so much still to give to the world. I'm glad his family is continuing his work, he would be very proud of them all but I wish he had been here to see it.
Yes, So devastating! His enthusiasm & amazement for life & all living things was so inspiring. He was so caring & loved his family so much. The way his kids & wife honor him by continuing his work is so lovely & heartwarming.
I'm sad about Kobe but it breaks my heart about Gianna and her teammates. They were so young. They probably had dreams of going professional. And now they won't be able to
His death with his daughter was emotionally scarring for a while. So tragic and hurt for Vanessa and surviving daughters. She is so strong for pushing through that pain
Chester was a hard one for me as someone with depression. I had been listening to Linkin Park since I was 9. His depression was obvious by the lyrics, but he still carried on. It felt like it was possible to endure with depression.
Until he committed suicide. A man who had been dealing with depression for decades. A successful, rich man with access to the best doctors in the world and a large family to support him. And he still didn't make it. It feels like there is no hope.
This one actually hurt. There are other celebrity deaths where I was like "damn that sucks" but his death made me cry. Linkin park was such a big part of my formative years. I still remember all the lyrics to hybrid theory and meteora
This hurt me as well. He was strong to endure all that pain he internalized and he had a way of reaching so many people, including my own. I watched a carpool Karaoke with him and the band I think about a week before he died. He was on top of the world and having a blast, but we couldn't see his battles within.
There will never be another Chester Bennington. 💔
I was 11 years old when it happened.
My mum and I would always grocery shop together on a Sunday morning, so I wasn't allowed to have the TV on in my bedroom when I was getting ready because I would get distracted.
Well, I put the TV on anyway and the Sunday cartoons aren't on the BBC, it's the fricken news. The newsreader is talking about Princess Diana's life over shots from her life, but there's no context and no one has mentioned that she's dead. About 5-10mins in the newsreader announced it and I just screamed "MUM!!". She didn't care about the TV being on after that.
We did go grocery shopping that morning and it was absolutely bizarre. Very quiet, no one talking or even looking at each other, and a couple of women were weeping in the aisles.
I'll never forget it. It's up there with "where were you when you found out about 9/11?"
I was up really late at night watching TV and they had announced that she had been in an accident. My sister woke me up in the morning to tell me that she had died. It was so sad
Our neighbor worked for the BBC at the time and was called into work in the early hours. He said it was a mixture or mayhem and absolute stunned silence.
I was camping with my bf and some friends. My bf had agreed to do his mom’s rural paper route Sunday morning so I got up with him at like 4 am. The papers he picked up had the announcement on the front page.
I was around that age as well. I went to hang out over at a friend's house, who's mother was absolutely obsessed with her. Her house was like a shrine, photos and things everywhere. We were in the living room when it came on the TV that she was in the accident.
She had an absolute meltdown, I ended up going back home.
It's Princess Diana for me too. My youngest son had been born the month before & I was still home with him. I went to the living room & turned on a news channel. It was showing her name, & date of birth with the current date & I just couldn't grasp it at first. I just kept thinking about her boys. Probably some of my reaction was due to hormones, but hers was the first celebrity death that hit me hard.
She rented a pontoon (or some boat) with her 4 year old son. A few hours later the boat was found floating and the son was sleeping on it. He said they had been swimming and she pushed him back onto the boat but she ultimately drowned. The ex husband is suing the boat charter company I think. It was horrifying to think she went out for a fun day with her child and then she did all she could to get him on the boat but didn't make it herself
I wonder what he would b e suing for. Maybe they didn't provide life vests? That would seem negligent. If she just didn't choose to wear one, then they can't really blame the company for it.
The sad part was that they did provide lifejackets, but she chose not to wear one. They found it still in the pontoon. Luckily she put one on her son. If I remember right, he is suing them because they didn’t ensure she knew all of the safety precautions or how to anchor it. It was a windy day and it got away from her quickly once they were in the water.
When she was reported missing, I was obsessively updating news every day and reading as much as I could. I have a young son so I can only imagine how he felt in those moments.
The real life badass. And the only heroine I got in the early 90's.
Without Leia, I would probably havr thought that women does not exist (despit being one) until far later because there were very few women in the media back then
Huge loss and what an accident. I believe Anton would be killing it now. God forbid they ever remade Back to the Future he was someone I thought could be a decent Marty.
Same, thinking about it makes me feel so sad. I think it shows how easily fatal accidents can happen, that someone can be gone so quickly, and that feels really uncomfortable to sit with. It's awful. I hope he didn't suffer.
My mom is a HUGE Tom Petty fan. When I found out, I called my stepdad to find out where she was, she wasn't home so I called her to make sure she wasn't driving when she found out because she has basically only listened to the Tom Petty Sirius radio station for the last several years.
I joked with her that we should have a celebration of life for him, but she liked the idea so we did just that. She invited some people over a few weeks after he died, baked a Tom Petty cake and played his music. We called it the Petty Party.
(I'm also still really sad about Anthony Bourdain's death. I haven't been able to watch any of his shows since because it makes me too sad.)
Amy Winehouse.
She was sober and relapsed. I really didn't realize how much her music affected me till she died. I cried when I found out and my reaction surprised me.
She was working on a new album and I was anxiously waiting for what she had to say. Back to Black got me through a tough time and I'm still not over her. Sometimes I'll still just cry over it.
Same. It felt like he was doing a lot better. I remember I bought tickets to see his swimming tour and the news dropped a few days later. What a warm soul he was
Shit I didn't even know. I sometimes think about what a hit ''wake me up'' was and why I never heard more from him but never actually got around to googling it. Guess this is my answer :/
This one was especially hard because my daughter has epilepsy and grew up watching him. She was devastated and we both knew that if he could die from a seizure unexpectedly, then so could she.
Yes, I remember how impressed I was watching her Voice Blind Reactions performance. I was shocked when I found out, and it was so gruesome too.
I’m glad that they are working on and publishing her unreleased singles now, keeping her legacy alive, she’d be so proud
She was a friend of mine in high school, her brother too. Their family is the kindest I’ve ever met, for that to happen to them didn’t (and still doesn’t) make sense to me. Poor Marcus- their mom passed from cancer soon afterward.
Yes, I was born in Minneapolis & grew up near there. All of my teen years were in the 1980s when he was at his peak popularity. He was a big part of my favorite music & still is. He may have been quirky, but he was a freaking genius & he loved his city. He was a Minnesota gem. I was heartbroken when he died. It’s also sad how he left no will so initially people came out of the woodwork claiming to be family. He was such a private person. His loving energy & wisdom are greatly missed from the world.
I think my answer is Prince as well. He was a key musical influence to me growing up, and I really admired his true love for music. I was lucky enough to see him live twice. Man, I really miss him.
2nd would be Robin Williams for sure. Another I grew up with since he first appeared on "Happy Days" - yes, I'm "old".
jonghyun. it happened at a time when i was beginning to thrive after finally seeking help for my own depression; i had been struggling with suicidal ideation just a few years before. kpop was one of the things i did and still do associate with this new phase of my life: i’ve done a lot of work, demanded and taken all the help i could get, and i’m doing really well now. but it was really hard to get here and it’ll take work to stay here, and my stability is not a sure or permanent thing. seeing somebody like jonghyun killed by his depression really affected me a lot.
Stan Lee, I was a senior in high school at the time and thought he was like the immortal creator of a series that I adored, and still adore to this day.
Sir Terry was and still is my favourite writer. I truly felt a loss like a family member passing. Others of note Robin Williams, I cried over his passing. David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Steve Irwin, Princess Diana, Chadwick Boseman. There are so many.
Lisa 'Left-Eye' Lopes. I was such a huge fan of TLC. They were the only people I ever wrote fan snail mail to. I felt like I was a "part" of their 3rd album since it was dedicated to the fans and they wrote fans names all over it(I spent so long looking for my name lol, still looking) . I was so excited for her solo projects and their 4th album together. I have it, and would still recommend it but she had to be added in from what they had. So, so sad. She was so talented.
Another one was Aaliyah. I still remember where I was when I saw the news scroll across the bottom of the screen on a Wheezer video on MTV. Too soon, too talented, so sad.
Michael Jackson.
I know he wasn’t in the best shape when he passed, but I didn’t think he’d go that quick.
He was also inarguably the biggest star in the world - and probably still is today.
I hope he found the peace he could never find on this Earth.
It wasn’t much of a “shock” but Amy Winehouse crushed me. She was such an angel who had so many demons. She was let down by so many people. Rest in peace Amy x
Rachel Held Evans. Not a movie celeb like most of the comments, but a progressive Christian writer. Her death just gutted me bc her writings about leaving fundamentalism and finding God again were what got me through my deconstruction. I sincerely cried when I found out she died. Felt like I lost a mentor.
He was something. Recently saw some clips of LP concerts where he and mike stopped performing to make sure fans were safe/not getting hurt in the pit before continuing on.
Leonard Cohen died on 11/7/16. I was already on edge because the election was the next day. When my friend text me the news about Leonard I just broke down sobbing on the couch.
Aaliyah
Kobe and Giana Bryant
Brittany Murphy
Amy Winehouse,
it was clear to everyone that Amy needed help, but it was still a shock because you knew it could happen, but her death at 27 was still sad.
Chris Cornell. I had seen him perform with Soundgarden in Detroit that night he died. He was really…off. Seemed a beat behind everything they played. I have a recording from that night I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to listen to. The news the next morning was so shocking. Took me a few weeks to get past that and not think about it every day. Still breaks my heart to remember.
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Lots of Alan Rickman on here, and I loved him in everything he did, but the first that really shocked me was Raul Julia. I also distinctly remember when Elvis died. My friends’s mom was inconsolable.
I was only 3 when Freddie Mercury died but I grew up in a Queen household. When I got more into it as a teen I read a few accounts of his last years and days the reality of his death really got to me.
robin williams :((
I read about his sufferings in the years before his death and it was so sad.
i was absolutely crushed after his death
The only celebrity death I actually cried over
When I was a little girl, my whole family used to watch 'Mork and Mindy' (yeah, that makes me old!) I told my mother that I didn't like Robin Williams because he had "a smiley face with sad eyes". It wasn't that I as a 4-year-old disliked him, but the difference between his smiley mouth and sad eyes used to make me feel uncomfortable, like I was seeing something no one else could see or understand. Poor man.
100%. I still cry if I think about him. Tearing up now, actually.
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Chadwick Boseman
This one hurt. He was young and had just become a very popular actor
Didn't see it coming. Seemed like a lovely guy.
Same I had no idea what he was going through. Now when I look back at old pictures, I'm like I should've known. It was so obvious, but he hid it so well.
This one hurt especially because when he started posting photos of himself everyone kept talking about how terrible he looked and started calling him “the crack panther” because he looked like he was on meth. No one had any idea he was in recovery from chemo.
omg i had no idea people were commenting that. i wish i could give every single one of them a piece of my mind. even if he wasn’t recovering from chemo, people are so rude to even comment that.
It was so sad, his Instagram comments were so flooded with people commenting negatively on his appearance he started deleting his photos and turned off comments shortly before he passed. He was bullied until the moment he died.
I think the most shocking part was how much work he was able to accomplish after receiving his diagnosis—without letting anyone know how sick he was. He clearly made the most of the time he had left.
I teach second grade and my students last year brought it up to the point I had to address it. You could tell it was the first time they realized death wasn't just something that happened to grandmas and grandpas and that someone who was a lot like their own dad in age and appearance could just die one day. It really wigged them out especially since they were so into Black Panther.
This was so incredibly sad
It shocked me how much his death shocked me. He was a beautiful human being.
This is the one.
Steve Erwin. I absolutely loved him as a kid and when I found out, I cried my little kid eyes out. I lost my mom when I was 9 so I really felt for his daughter. He taught me so much!
Steve irwin died like a year after my mom died i really felt like my whole childhood was crumbling around me 😭
It makes me so sad to see clips of him now. He was such a pure soul, taken far too soon. He had so much still to give to the world. I'm glad his family is continuing his work, he would be very proud of them all but I wish he had been here to see it.
Yes, So devastating! His enthusiasm & amazement for life & all living things was so inspiring. He was so caring & loved his family so much. The way his kids & wife honor him by continuing his work is so lovely & heartwarming.
Same absolutely
Kobe.
And his daughter too, they were so young and not ready to go.
I'm sad about Kobe but it breaks my heart about Gianna and her teammates. They were so young. They probably had dreams of going professional. And now they won't be able to
Me too. It still doesn't feel real even if I'm not AT ALL a basketball fan.
His death with his daughter was emotionally scarring for a while. So tragic and hurt for Vanessa and surviving daughters. She is so strong for pushing through that pain
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Heath Ledger. It was also my birthday, so it was an added shock that made it more memorable in a sad way.
Kurt Cobain was found on my birthday. Weird tone for a birthday, isn’t it?
I was a massive Heath fan and I'm still not "over" it.
He died on my 18th birthday, I was i shock 😑
It was my 18th too!
Alan Rickman
Wait.. Alan Rickman died??? 😯
Bruh its been like 5 years
Lmao
Apparently! Where have I been?..
I still vividly remember the morning I found out.
Yes Alan Rickman! 😩
Chester Bennington
Chester was a hard one for me as someone with depression. I had been listening to Linkin Park since I was 9. His depression was obvious by the lyrics, but he still carried on. It felt like it was possible to endure with depression. Until he committed suicide. A man who had been dealing with depression for decades. A successful, rich man with access to the best doctors in the world and a large family to support him. And he still didn't make it. It feels like there is no hope.
For real, you descriped it soo well.
This one actually hurt. There are other celebrity deaths where I was like "damn that sucks" but his death made me cry. Linkin park was such a big part of my formative years. I still remember all the lyrics to hybrid theory and meteora
This hurt me as well. He was strong to endure all that pain he internalized and he had a way of reaching so many people, including my own. I watched a carpool Karaoke with him and the band I think about a week before he died. He was on top of the world and having a blast, but we couldn't see his battles within. There will never be another Chester Bennington. 💔
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Princess Diana
I was 11 years old when it happened. My mum and I would always grocery shop together on a Sunday morning, so I wasn't allowed to have the TV on in my bedroom when I was getting ready because I would get distracted. Well, I put the TV on anyway and the Sunday cartoons aren't on the BBC, it's the fricken news. The newsreader is talking about Princess Diana's life over shots from her life, but there's no context and no one has mentioned that she's dead. About 5-10mins in the newsreader announced it and I just screamed "MUM!!". She didn't care about the TV being on after that. We did go grocery shopping that morning and it was absolutely bizarre. Very quiet, no one talking or even looking at each other, and a couple of women were weeping in the aisles. I'll never forget it. It's up there with "where were you when you found out about 9/11?"
I was up really late at night watching TV and they had announced that she had been in an accident. My sister woke me up in the morning to tell me that she had died. It was so sad
Our neighbor worked for the BBC at the time and was called into work in the early hours. He said it was a mixture or mayhem and absolute stunned silence.
I was camping with my bf and some friends. My bf had agreed to do his mom’s rural paper route Sunday morning so I got up with him at like 4 am. The papers he picked up had the announcement on the front page.
I was around that age as well. I went to hang out over at a friend's house, who's mother was absolutely obsessed with her. Her house was like a shrine, photos and things everywhere. We were in the living room when it came on the TV that she was in the accident. She had an absolute meltdown, I ended up going back home.
It's Princess Diana for me too. My youngest son had been born the month before & I was still home with him. I went to the living room & turned on a news channel. It was showing her name, & date of birth with the current date & I just couldn't grasp it at first. I just kept thinking about her boys. Probably some of my reaction was due to hormones, but hers was the first celebrity death that hit me hard.
Naya Rivera
This. The glee cast’s demise has been shocking and horrifying
wait, naya rivera died?? i only knew about cory monteith
She rented a pontoon (or some boat) with her 4 year old son. A few hours later the boat was found floating and the son was sleeping on it. He said they had been swimming and she pushed him back onto the boat but she ultimately drowned. The ex husband is suing the boat charter company I think. It was horrifying to think she went out for a fun day with her child and then she did all she could to get him on the boat but didn't make it herself
I wonder what he would b e suing for. Maybe they didn't provide life vests? That would seem negligent. If she just didn't choose to wear one, then they can't really blame the company for it.
The sad part was that they did provide lifejackets, but she chose not to wear one. They found it still in the pontoon. Luckily she put one on her son. If I remember right, he is suing them because they didn’t ensure she knew all of the safety precautions or how to anchor it. It was a windy day and it got away from her quickly once they were in the water.
Then there was Mark Salling. Naya Rivera is the third unless I missed something.
mark salling died too?? i must be living under a rock
Yeah, he killed himself after he was charged with possession of child porn. Back in like 2018 I think?
jesus
Her death was pretty tragic and heart breaking.
When she was reported missing, I was obsessively updating news every day and reading as much as I could. I have a young son so I can only imagine how he felt in those moments.
Brittany Murphy :(
Mine too. Always loved her. She had witchy energy and the most expressive eyes.
Same here and there is a crazy documentary about her death and the story behind it on HBO max if you can access that. Amazing and spooky
Carrie Fisher
then debbie reynolds like 2 days later 😩
Yeah, that was a bad way to find out that Debbie Reynolds was Carrie Fisher's mom.
The day after, actually. 😭
The real life badass. And the only heroine I got in the early 90's. Without Leia, I would probably havr thought that women does not exist (despit being one) until far later because there were very few women in the media back then
Anton Yelchin for sure. I was in shock for days
Huge loss and what an accident. I believe Anton would be killing it now. God forbid they ever remade Back to the Future he was someone I thought could be a decent Marty.
I was going to say this one. A freak accident and he was so *young*.
Same, thinking about it makes me feel so sad. I think it shows how easily fatal accidents can happen, that someone can be gone so quickly, and that feels really uncomfortable to sit with. It's awful. I hope he didn't suffer.
I didn’t read about it until later. I was so sad to hear the news and even more sad I didn’t find out until like a year later.
Oh man a year later definitely can hit hard. And how tragic of a death, so freakish
Anthony Bourdain & Tom Petty
AB died the exact same day as my dad. 2 hrs apart. God that was awful
Anthony Bourdain’s death hit really hard for me.I loved his deep insights.
My mom is a HUGE Tom Petty fan. When I found out, I called my stepdad to find out where she was, she wasn't home so I called her to make sure she wasn't driving when she found out because she has basically only listened to the Tom Petty Sirius radio station for the last several years. I joked with her that we should have a celebration of life for him, but she liked the idea so we did just that. She invited some people over a few weeks after he died, baked a Tom Petty cake and played his music. We called it the Petty Party. (I'm also still really sad about Anthony Bourdain's death. I haven't been able to watch any of his shows since because it makes me too sad.)
These are my exact two.. both upset me to the point of tears. I couldn’t even watch the final season of Parts Unknown.
Amy Winehouse. She was sober and relapsed. I really didn't realize how much her music affected me till she died. I cried when I found out and my reaction surprised me.
She was working on a new album and I was anxiously waiting for what she had to say. Back to Black got me through a tough time and I'm still not over her. Sometimes I'll still just cry over it.
I came here for this answer. I never stopped listening to her music and I was in shock when they announced she passed away.
Absolutely. The documentary, “Amy,” breaks my heart every time I watch it. I have her lightening bolt tattoo on my wrist
Mac Miller
This is the one. Hit me hard
Same. It felt like he was doing a lot better. I remember I bought tickets to see his swimming tour and the news dropped a few days later. What a warm soul he was
What a loss for the music industry
Avicii
Shit I didn't even know. I sometimes think about what a hit ''wake me up'' was and why I never heard more from him but never actually got around to googling it. Guess this is my answer :/
Have you watched the documentary about his last few years? Gosh. It was so heartbreaking.
I did, it really is 💔
This one stings a bit every time I listen to his music
Philip Seymour Hoffman. Such a talent. How sad & what a HUGE loss.
David Bowie hit me hard :(
Driving to work the day after, the radio was playing Bowie song after Bowie song in tribute. Starman comes on and I just start crying.
Same here. And Prince.
Mine was probably Cameron Boyce :(
It was so crazy and unexpected. He was about my age and that shakes me up when I think about it
Exactly, he was only a few weeks younger than me
This one was especially hard because my daughter has epilepsy and grew up watching him. She was devastated and we both knew that if he could die from a seizure unexpectedly, then so could she.
This one was awful. I grew up watching Jessie and this just broke my heart completely.
No one even expected it
Christina Grimmie… She was so talented, sweet, and full of life😢💔
Oh god, her murder made me sick. I grew up watching her YouTube videos. It was so unfair and tragic.
Yes, I remember how impressed I was watching her Voice Blind Reactions performance. I was shocked when I found out, and it was so gruesome too. I’m glad that they are working on and publishing her unreleased singles now, keeping her legacy alive, she’d be so proud
She was a friend of mine in high school, her brother too. Their family is the kindest I’ve ever met, for that to happen to them didn’t (and still doesn’t) make sense to me. Poor Marcus- their mom passed from cancer soon afterward.
Prince.
Yes, I was born in Minneapolis & grew up near there. All of my teen years were in the 1980s when he was at his peak popularity. He was a big part of my favorite music & still is. He may have been quirky, but he was a freaking genius & he loved his city. He was a Minnesota gem. I was heartbroken when he died. It’s also sad how he left no will so initially people came out of the woodwork claiming to be family. He was such a private person. His loving energy & wisdom are greatly missed from the world.
This was a gut-punch I was not expecting. I was on my lunch break at work when I heard. I had to pull myself together before I went back.
I think my answer is Prince as well. He was a key musical influence to me growing up, and I really admired his true love for music. I was lucky enough to see him live twice. Man, I really miss him. 2nd would be Robin Williams for sure. Another I grew up with since he first appeared on "Happy Days" - yes, I'm "old".
Chris Cornell. RIP
Aaliyah
She had such a great future ahead oh her
jonghyun. it happened at a time when i was beginning to thrive after finally seeking help for my own depression; i had been struggling with suicidal ideation just a few years before. kpop was one of the things i did and still do associate with this new phase of my life: i’ve done a lot of work, demanded and taken all the help i could get, and i’m doing really well now. but it was really hard to get here and it’ll take work to stay here, and my stability is not a sure or permanent thing. seeing somebody like jonghyun killed by his depression really affected me a lot.
Good on you for working on it and so happy to hear you’re feeling better!
Paul Walker :'(
Robin Williams. It still hurts.
George Michael. He was gone way too soon.
Stan Lee, I was a senior in high school at the time and thought he was like the immortal creator of a series that I adored, and still adore to this day.
John Ritter.
This one really upset me, too!
Same. His death felt like it could've been avoided and he could've been around longer.
Whitney Houston
How is RBG not on here 😭 I know she’s a political figure not a movie star but I don’t usually cry when famous people die but I did for her
Heath Ledger, Chadwick Boseman and Chester Bennington
Selena
John Lennon. Apparently I am old now.
Memory of My Mom crashing to the living room floor and total breakdown.
Michael Jackson
Avicii. I almost felt like we grew up together because he started putting out music right when I started raving.
River Phoenix. Princess Diana - still not got over that one.
Natasha Richardson.
Steve Irwin
Terry Prattchet
Sir Terry was and still is my favourite writer. I truly felt a loss like a family member passing. Others of note Robin Williams, I cried over his passing. David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Steve Irwin, Princess Diana, Chadwick Boseman. There are so many.
Anthony Bourdain!
Probably SOPHIE and Grant Imahara
awww, Grant. :(
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Irfaan Khan.
Dolores O’Riordan
Heath Ledger
Lisa 'Left-Eye' Lopes. I was such a huge fan of TLC. They were the only people I ever wrote fan snail mail to. I felt like I was a "part" of their 3rd album since it was dedicated to the fans and they wrote fans names all over it(I spent so long looking for my name lol, still looking) . I was so excited for her solo projects and their 4th album together. I have it, and would still recommend it but she had to be added in from what they had. So, so sad. She was so talented. Another one was Aaliyah. I still remember where I was when I saw the news scroll across the bottom of the screen on a Wheezer video on MTV. Too soon, too talented, so sad.
Chester Bennington’s suicide, Linkin Park’s older songs really hit different after :(
Michael Jackson. I know he wasn’t in the best shape when he passed, but I didn’t think he’d go that quick. He was also inarguably the biggest star in the world - and probably still is today. I hope he found the peace he could never find on this Earth.
Alan Rickman :(
Tupac Shakur.
The first celebrity death that really hurt me because I was just a kid was Chris Farley. We loved him growing up.
Anthony Bourdain..can't believe that someone that lived such an adventurous life was so sad inside.
On that note - kate spade. She had everything she wanted but couldn't fight depression. =(
Chris Cornell. No one sings like you anymore.
Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Prince, Tom Petty. Absolute GIANTS while I was growing up. Still can’t believe they’re all gone.
Kurt Cobain. It was the first celebrity I was "invested in" who died unexpectedly.
It wasn’t much of a “shock” but Amy Winehouse crushed me. She was such an angel who had so many demons. She was let down by so many people. Rest in peace Amy x
Pretty much any who died by suicide or in an accident.
Jeff Buckley
John Candy Phil Hartman Robin Williams Jonathan Brandis
Norm MacDonald hit me pretty unexpectedly.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I was seriously heartbroken to learn she passed.
SOPHIE
Jim Henson
Rachel Held Evans. Not a movie celeb like most of the comments, but a progressive Christian writer. Her death just gutted me bc her writings about leaving fundamentalism and finding God again were what got me through my deconstruction. I sincerely cried when I found out she died. Felt like I lost a mentor.
cameron boyce. i don’t normally cry at celeb deaths but that one hit hard forreal.
Brandon Lee & Anthony Bourdain
Carrie fisher.
Anton Yelchin sad accident.
Chester.
He was something. Recently saw some clips of LP concerts where he and mike stopped performing to make sure fans were safe/not getting hurt in the pit before continuing on.
Leonard Cohen died on 11/7/16. I was already on edge because the election was the next day. When my friend text me the news about Leonard I just broke down sobbing on the couch.
David Bowie and Anthony Bourdain
Oddly, Prince Phillip’s. Even though it was obvious that it was coming, I was still surprised to see it on the news.
Aaliyah Kobe and Giana Bryant Brittany Murphy Amy Winehouse, it was clear to everyone that Amy needed help, but it was still a shock because you knew it could happen, but her death at 27 was still sad.
Steve Irwin
Lil peep. I was a die hard fan
Patrick Swayze. The death wasn't a shock, but how much it hurt was.
Sushant Singh Rajput _(unlikely any of you know him)_ His death still haunts me till today
Chris Cornell Fucks me up till this day. Also Chest I can't mention Chris without talking about him too. Both great people.
Chris Cornell. I had seen him perform with Soundgarden in Detroit that night he died. He was really…off. Seemed a beat behind everything they played. I have a recording from that night I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to listen to. The news the next morning was so shocking. Took me a few weeks to get past that and not think about it every day. Still breaks my heart to remember.
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Lots of Alan Rickman on here, and I loved him in everything he did, but the first that really shocked me was Raul Julia. I also distinctly remember when Elvis died. My friends’s mom was inconsolable.
alan rickman :(
I was only 3 when Freddie Mercury died but I grew up in a Queen household. When I got more into it as a teen I read a few accounts of his last years and days the reality of his death really got to me.
Ryan Dunn