Robin Williams. I had severe depression in college, and his movies always pulled me through the darkest days. Mrs. Doubtfire was my comfort film. When I heard the news, I sat in my car during my lunch break and just sobbed. Still hurts to think about it.
Princess Diana. I was only 12 but I remember my mom waking me up crying. She had all these magazines with Diana’s pictures, and we just sat on the couch watching the news coverage together. Still feels surreal thinking about it.
Keith Flint (The Prodigy). The band thankfully is still going on without him, but it’s not gonna be the same unfortunately. He played such an important role that his death just felt like the end for Prodigy.
George Carlin. I listened to his material before I was a teenager, but it wasn’t until years later that I truly understood how adept he was at using language to educate and entertain simultaneously. Very few entertainers, especially comedians, can make such a drastic career change mid-stream and continue to have great success.
Scott Weiland. I loved Stone Temple Pilots since I was a kid, they were one of the first bands I really listened to. But that’s not why.
I woke up, went into the bathroom, checked my phone, sat down, and ugly cried. My head in my hands. My wife asked what was wrong when I eventually came out. But see, she was violently addicted to alcohol at that point. Rapid onset, psychosis, more common in women. And it was reading that headline that made me, who had been her biggest fan at great cost, realize in my heart that she wasn’t gonna make it. So there I was, crying over my rockstars. She was dead two months later.
My current wife is asleep next to me. Her nose is stopped up causing her to make bird sounds. I’ve woken her up several times laughing. Which I do a lot more of with her around. It can’t rain all the time.
Andy Rourke, bassist in The Smiths. He’s my favourite bassist, and I had no idea he’d been ill at all. I dreamed of meeting him someday to tell him how much his playing had inspired and thrilled me, as a bass player myself, but he died way too young. I cried on and off all day while trying to get my work done. I hadn’t anticipated being so upset.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Not only was it striking in all that talent gone to waste it reminded me of just how good he was at playing depressed and internally tortured characters. The sad thing is he was so good at that because that’s who he was himself.
Alan Rickman…he seemed like the best of men (and was an incredible actor). I cried hearing he’d passed, and then cried again watching him in the first film i saw him in, Truly Madly Deeply
Cheater, Anthony and Robin. I have struggled with depression for as long as I can remember. It just hurt me to know that they hurt so bad they couldn’t keep going; and not hurt as in I was offended by their actions, hurt in that I could in some very limited way relate and think I wish they were still here because they were good, kind human beings.
Linkin Park’s music has helped me through a lot and I’ve always loved Chester’s voice. The lyrics resonate with me deeply and speak to me on a personal level. I also got to see them in concert and they were incredible, so I’ll always have that memory with me. When Chester died, it felt like I lost a therapist.
Chris Farley man…i loves that guy. He was the first guy to ever make me laugh, like a real laugh where you can’t catch you’re breath and when everyone’s asking what is it that’s so funny, you can’t get the words out kind of laugh.
You can’t convince me the world’s collective smile didn’t get a little sadder when Robin Williams died. I’m not crazy about celebrities, but i think he genuinely liked making people smile.
Eddie Guerrero. I guess because we were both from El Paso and and some of my family grew up with his family. I never had the pleasure of meeting any of the Guerreros but Eddie always reminds me of some of my uncles
I wouldn’t say he’s really a celebrity (but an influential figure nonetheless) but Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk. I was actually listening to Trans Europe Express when I browsed the comment section and found a bunch of new comments saying “RIP Florian.”
I know he was 73 and out of Kraftwerk for years, but I couldn’t believe it at first. I looked up to him. I needed a double take, so I went on Twitter to see if anything came up. Lo and behold, “Florian” was trending and there was a Rolling Stone article posting about his death. At that point, I knew he was really gone and I fucking SOBBED. I was upset for weeks and binge listened to the entire Kraftwerk discography for months.
She’s been out of the limelight for a while, but idk. I think just growing up in the 90s seeing her on kid shows, then in Eurotrip when I was a teenager. Feels like she grew up with my generation and died way too early. She also has very little drama following her which is always a plus. RIP.
Robin Williams. I had the pleasure of meeting him as a tour guide for VIPs at Disney. It really broke my heart to hear of his death. My own father died this way, too. So stung hard.
Others: carrie fisher, Stan Lee, & Robbie Coltrane
Chester Bennington. He died right after my grandmother died. Both were heros to me. I’m a pretty calm and collected guy, but I cried in the bathroom for an hour.
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Robin Williams hit me very hard.
Carl weathers
Dave Bowie and Prince – in the same shitty year – was a kick in the balls. And there were others in the same year.
Carrie Fisher
Juice Wrld, you didn’t know him like I knowed him.
Chadwick Boseman had such an impact ngl
Robin Williams. I had severe depression in college, and his movies always pulled me through the darkest days. Mrs. Doubtfire was my comfort film. When I heard the news, I sat in my car during my lunch break and just sobbed. Still hurts to think about it.
Maggie Smith, I know she was old, but I never wanted her to stop acting.
Frank Zappa.
Robbie Coltrane. There’s no Hogwarts without Hagrid.
Amy winehouse as I was going through a very very tough mental health crisis and it was devastating to me. I was just a bit older than her.
Princess Leia
Cobain.
Chester
Bourdain.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Princess Diana. I was only 12 but I remember my mom waking me up crying. She had all these magazines with Diana’s pictures, and we just sat on the couch watching the news coverage together. Still feels surreal thinking about it.
Brittany Murphy,
Heath Ledger
Anton Yelchin. What a nonsensical end to such an incredible talent.
Not a huge celebrity but Michael Thalassitis. His death forced me to face how bad my trauma was and how I needed to get help
Ron Glass 😭😭
Brittany Murphy because she was so young and healthy it didn’t seem right and it’s very strange.
Keith Flint (The Prodigy). The band thankfully is still going on without him, but it’s not gonna be the same unfortunately. He played such an important role that his death just felt like the end for Prodigy.
Philip Seymour Hoffman would have given us at least ten more great performances by now.
The one I find myself missing the most is Michael Clarke Duncan. also John Ritter, loved 8 Simple Rules when I was a kid
Sinead O’Connor
Terry Pratchett, the English author. It was known he was dying, but it still hurt when he passed. No more wonderful stories.
GNU Terry Pratchett
Tony Hart. Still chokes me up.
Freddie Mercury. I was really little at the time.
The way Gene Hackman went was awful.
One can only hope that he might not have realised the sheer awfulness of it, but it must have still been brutal.
Matthew Perry
Dimebag Darrell, because he was murdered mid-song on stage, while playing guitar.
George Carlin, Chris Cornell, and Chester Bennington
Anthony Bourdain
George Carlin. Man was my favorite comedian.
Lance Reddick. Especially seeing all the tributes across the fans of so many game franchises.
Chris Cornell
Sinaed O’Connor
Matthew Perry. He finally dealt with his demons and started new almost happy life but ended up being dead. So so so sad and unfair
George Michael and Rik Mayall. Both really hit me hard.
George Carlin. I listened to his material before I was a teenager, but it wasn’t until years later that I truly understood how adept he was at using language to educate and entertain simultaneously. Very few entertainers, especially comedians, can make such a drastic career change mid-stream and continue to have great success.
Heath Ledger
Sean Locke
People’s champion Mohammad Ali.
David Bowie
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Norm McDonald. My favourite comedian. He was so secretive about his illness and bore it with such dignity that it added another layer of heartbreak
Rik Mayall, the only time I was upset about a celebrity’s death.
Aaliyah
Many of the above-mentioned, but for some unknown reason, Chester Bennington.
I think it is because Numb got me through some bad times, as well as the lyrics of One More Light.
One More Light – Linkin Park
Who cares if one more light goes out?
In the sky of a million stars
It flickers, flickers
Who cares when someone’s time runs out?
If a moment is all we are
Or quicker, quicker
Who cares if one more light goes out?
Well, I do
Scott Weiland. I loved Stone Temple Pilots since I was a kid, they were one of the first bands I really listened to. But that’s not why.
I woke up, went into the bathroom, checked my phone, sat down, and ugly cried. My head in my hands. My wife asked what was wrong when I eventually came out. But see, she was violently addicted to alcohol at that point. Rapid onset, psychosis, more common in women. And it was reading that headline that made me, who had been her biggest fan at great cost, realize in my heart that she wasn’t gonna make it. So there I was, crying over my rockstars. She was dead two months later.
My current wife is asleep next to me. Her nose is stopped up causing her to make bird sounds. I’ve woken her up several times laughing. Which I do a lot more of with her around. It can’t rain all the time.
Michael Jackson
Steve Irwin
Robin Williams. It was an absolute punch in the gut for me.
Mac Miller 😔
Selena Quintanilla, she was so young and so talented.
Andy Rourke, bassist in The Smiths. He’s my favourite bassist, and I had no idea he’d been ill at all. I dreamed of meeting him someday to tell him how much his playing had inspired and thrilled me, as a bass player myself, but he died way too young. I cried on and off all day while trying to get my work done. I hadn’t anticipated being so upset.
Anthony Bourdain
Michael Jackson, had tickets for several of his comeback shows.
Steve Irwin, Norm Macdonald, and Leonard Nimoy.
Steve Irwin
Chester Bennington
Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Not only was it striking in all that talent gone to waste it reminded me of just how good he was at playing depressed and internally tortured characters. The sad thing is he was so good at that because that’s who he was himself.
jerry Garcia.
Chris Cornell
chester bennington and tom petty. RIP.
River Phoenix
Robin williams
Tom Petty, Meat Loaf, and the 3 glee cast members 😩
Cameron Boyce…
Robin Williams.
Alan Rickman
Adam Yauch (MCA)
Steve Irwin
Matthew Perry
Bob Saget
Steve Irwin and Stan Lee
Alan Rickman…he seemed like the best of men (and was an incredible actor). I cried hearing he’d passed, and then cried again watching him in the first film i saw him in, Truly Madly Deeply
Andre Braugher
Robin William
Douglas Adams.
There is so much more madness to explain in his own special way.
Never a prolific author, but every word he wrote was worth something.
Robin Williams, it felt like the wind got knocked out of me. He really made my childhood.
Prince.
Grant Imahara
Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Robin Williams
Chester Bennington
Chester Beddington
Stan Lee. Felt like my own granddad had died
Norm Macdonald
Steve Irwin
Trevor Moore
Leslie Jordan. He was just starting to get everything he wanted.
Chester Bennington without a doubt. I cried when I heard ‘Lost’ for the first time when they published it years after his death.
Matthew Perry and Val Kilmer 😭😭😭😭
Cheater, Anthony and Robin. I have struggled with depression for as long as I can remember. It just hurt me to know that they hurt so bad they couldn’t keep going; and not hurt as in I was offended by their actions, hurt in that I could in some very limited way relate and think I wish they were still here because they were good, kind human beings.
Norm Macdonald passing really hurt, he was such a fun guy and it came out of nowhere.
Sir Terry Pratchett and Steve Irwin.
Anthony Bourdain. I loved his honesty with everything
Sean Lock. Saw an old clip of him on TV last night and it made me sad about it all over again.
Chester Bennington.
Linkin Park’s music has helped me through a lot and I’ve always loved Chester’s voice. The lyrics resonate with me deeply and speak to me on a personal level. I also got to see them in concert and they were incredible, so I’ll always have that memory with me. When Chester died, it felt like I lost a therapist.
Robin Williams
Jerry Garcia
John Lennon, Robin Williams
Bowie ⚡️
Sean Lock
Philip Seymour Hoffman!!
I also was upset enough when Scott Weiland died that I went into work late.
MF DOOM. He is one of the most unique voices in my lifetime.
Robin Williams. Felt like it came out of nowhere?
Andre Braugher.
I just barely finished Brooklyn99 when he passed. Felt like I lost an old friend.
Paul Walker
Mitch Hedberg! He died on my birthday
Prince
Adam Yauch (MCA from the Beastie Boys)
Chris Farley man…i loves that guy. He was the first guy to ever make me laugh, like a real laugh where you can’t catch you’re breath and when everyone’s asking what is it that’s so funny, you can’t get the words out kind of laugh.
Sean Lock: Carrot in a Box
Norm McDonald
David Bowie.
You can’t convince me the world’s collective smile didn’t get a little sadder when Robin Williams died. I’m not crazy about celebrities, but i think he genuinely liked making people smile.
Chester Bennington
Chester Bennington
Eddie Guerrero. I guess because we were both from El Paso and and some of my family grew up with his family. I never had the pleasure of meeting any of the Guerreros but Eddie always reminds me of some of my uncles
Stan Lee and Adam West. I know they were old guys, but they were both legends.b
Chris Farley and John Candy both bummed me out
Bob Saget
Eric Carr and Phil Lynott
Terry Pratchett.
I wouldn’t say he’s really a celebrity (but an influential figure nonetheless) but Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk. I was actually listening to Trans Europe Express when I browsed the comment section and found a bunch of new comments saying “RIP Florian.”
I know he was 73 and out of Kraftwerk for years, but I couldn’t believe it at first. I looked up to him. I needed a double take, so I went on Twitter to see if anything came up. Lo and behold, “Florian” was trending and there was a Rolling Stone article posting about his death. At that point, I knew he was really gone and I fucking SOBBED. I was upset for weeks and binge listened to the entire Kraftwerk discography for months.
Mr Rogers. He was so wholesome. Feels like he was a real next door neighbor even though he was in his little TV world.
Also it sucked to lose John Ritter and Robin Williams.
Cory Monteith. I’d love to rewatch Glee, but it would be too sad. Matthew Perry. Gone too soon. Both seemed like terrific people, too. F-ing drugs.
Michelle Trachtenberg.
She’s been out of the limelight for a while, but idk. I think just growing up in the 90s seeing her on kid shows, then in Eurotrip when I was a teenager. Feels like she grew up with my generation and died way too early. She also has very little drama following her which is always a plus. RIP.
Ronnie James Dio dying on the same day as my birthday really bummed me out. Really glad i got to see him with Heaven and Hell. RIP you legend
Prince
Robin Williams.
World lost a lot of happiness that day.
Steve Irwin
Trevor Moore
I have a few:
Robin Williams. I had the pleasure of meeting him as a tour guide for VIPs at Disney. It really broke my heart to hear of his death. My own father died this way, too. So stung hard.
Others: carrie fisher, Stan Lee, & Robbie Coltrane
Matthew Perry 💔💔💔
Phil Hartman. His wife killed him in a murder suicide with their two children in the house.
Alan Rickman and Rik Mayall.
Chris Farley was such a loss I remember it very well because he died the day before my birthday and I was just really sad.
Cory Monteith 🙁
John Ritter.
Not a celebrity per se, but RBG.
Chadwick Boseman. Hands down
John Lennon
Lucille Ball and Robin Williams
Neal Peart. The story of him losing his wife and daughter and his subsequent path of healing was amazing.
I’ve never been super upset about celebrities dying, but the one I was most upset about was probably Bob Saget.
Chester Bennington. He died right after my grandmother died. Both were heros to me. I’m a pretty calm and collected guy, but I cried in the bathroom for an hour.