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[Memaetosser]

I am doing a report on Freddie Prinze's suicide and was wondering if anyone could give me some information. Or where to find some information. Anything will help. Because the only thing I can find on the internet is FREDDIE JR!!! How annoying! Thanks again!
Tosser!

[BJ Mallory]

Originally posted by Memaetosser:
I am doing a report on Freddie Prinze's suicide and was wondering if anyone could give me some information. Or where to find some information. Anything will help. Because the only thing I can find on the internet is FREDDIE JR!!! How annoying! Thanks again!
Tosser!

From what was reported on the E! True Hollywood Story, Freddie was abusing alcohol and prescription as well as illegal drugs. His psychiatrist was prescribing him Quaaludes and he was also doing cocaine. His ex-wife was interviewed for this program and said that she begged his doctors to stop prescribing him the quaaludes because he was abusing them but they wouldn't listen to her. She begged Freddie to stop doing drugs but he wouldn't so she left him.

Freddie made cryptic comments to his friends shortly before his death and even faked a suicide attempt in the presence of his agent - he fired a shot from his gun in another room and she came running in to find Freddie laughing at her because he had faked her out. I seem to remember someone on the show saying that Freddie's psychiatrist took Freddie's gun away from him once but amazingly enough, later gave it back.

He shot himself in the presence of one of his friends (I can't remember the man's relationship to him but he described the scene on the E! program); he was said to be high and drunk and acting very despondent. His friend tried to talk to Freddie but suddenly Freddie reached under a cushion of the sofa he was sitting on and pulled out his revolver, put it to his head and fired.

His friends, especially comedian Richard Belzer think that Freddie wasn't prepared for the sudden success he obtained and all the trappings that came with it. Freddie made a couple of half-hearted attempts to get help for his addictions but in those days there was no Betty Ford clinic. If you had a problem, you either lived through it and got over it privately or you didn't.

Like I said, that's what the show reported. Who can really know what happened, except those closest to Freddie, and then what can they really know at all? If he would have just made it through that night, he might have still been with us.

[Moon]

The man present was his agent, Dusty Snyder, who apparently tried to take the gun away but was too late. Like BJ said, only Freddie knew what was truly going on with Freddie. It could have been a bid for attention type of "fooling around with a gun to get people going" like '50s rocker Gene Vincent often did but it backfired. Apparently from all the phone calls it sounds like Freddie was hoping someone would stop him from doing it. There was no Betty Ford Clinic back then but there were hospitals that treated addicts. I don't know about California law back then but here in Illinois, for years, if someone was a danger to himself or other people (and Freddie was both), the police or doctors could have him hospitalized. Perhaps it would've set him on the road to recovery?

That reminds me, I wrote a story in 1977 where a friend intervened. I wish I'd saved it but I 86'ed my middle school stuff years ago.

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It was late one night by the pale moonlight all the vegetables gave a spree.

[This message has been edited by Moon (edited 01-22-2001).]

Accorting to this website:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/chicoandtheman.html

The following it posted:

Saturday, January 27th
E! True Hollywood Story
"Freddie Prinze"
The life, career and tragic death of comic-actor Freddie Prinze is told through interviews with family and comics David Brenner and Paul Rodriguez.

[TJ]

I forgot to add to the page but it airs at 5PM ET/PT..

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