The following article includes references to suicide.
Celebrities often live a life distant from the realities we are used to.
But there is a common equalizer for everyone death.
Similar to the life and work of famous people, their death is also public.
Public figures are grieved collectively in common spaces and often bring people closer.
She shared that a few weeks before the actor sadly died, they had an argument.
And he was apologizing, saying he was cranky and he was just so sorry," she said.
She went on to discuss the love between them and that he ended the exchange by reiterating that.
Later, it was confirmed that this included heroin, antidepressants, and some benzodiazepines.
Unfortunately, he had struggled with drug addiction for a major part of his life.
His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever."
ActorJohn Stamosposted the last message the singer sent him onTwitter.
“Another one gone too soon,” Stamos wrote in his tweet.
“I hate my fans, too.
I hate being famous.
I hate my job.
I am lonely and living in constant uncertainty,“the bookreveals.
Bourdain reportedly sent his ex-wife and friend Ottavia Busia this text days before he was found dead.
He wrote: “I am okay, I am not spiteful.
I am not jealous that you have been with another man.
I do not own you.
As I truly meant.
But you were careless.
You were reckless with my heart.
My life” (viaThe New York Times).
An inspiration for many, Hussle was a man who believed in giving back to his community.
We shouldn’t be so dependent on white entities to survive,” fan Chavonne Taylor toldBBCin 2020.
He was quite the artist, raking in 1.8 billion streams of his music in a year.
“I’m A-1.
I’m grateful I have a studio again.
I’m just happy and ready to work,” he wrote (viaPage Six).
The life of a K-pop star is not all sunshine and rainbows.
It can be incredibly stressful with long working hours.
Fans look up to them and they are expected to meet impossible standards.
“Becoming famous was probably not my life.
They tell me that’s why I’m having a hard time … Why did I choose that?
Jonghyun died by suicide on December 18, 2017.
Fans mourned the artist on the band’sTwitter.
Cordero was one of the earliest celebrities to get extremely sick during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The last texts Cordero sent his co-star Zach Braff are as heartbreaking as his premature death.
I promise the world they will never want for anything,” Braff posted onInstagram.
“While it may be hard to believe, it’s true.
Cheslie led both a public and a private life.
I love you more than any person I’ve ever known.”
Seamus Heaney
While poets aren’t your common, everyday celebrity, Seamus Haeney was quite different.
The obituary also credits him as possibly the only poet with a guaranteed place in the bestseller lists.
We lost the literary pioneer on August 30, 2013.
“Noli timere,” read the text Heaney sent his wife from his hospital bed.
The Latin phrase translates to “do not be afraid” in English (perThe Irish Times).
Similarly to most words written by Heaney in his lifetime, his last words were also widely discussed.
Boseman was a prominent figure in bringing historically accurate portrayals of pioneering Black leaders to the Hollywood silver screen.
Boseman, a private man according to Hollywood standards, had hidden his illness from the world.
The executive producer of “Black Panther,” Nate Moore, shared their final text exchange withPeople.
He was unaware of the actor’s illness.
The exchange regarded fulfilling the requests of a Make-A-Wish child during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Boseman wrote, “It broke me, man.
But we need to do that for them.
People deserve abundant life, special moments.
They’ve been through hell battling disease.
This was not an easy task given the strict lockdown restrictions of the time.
Leslie Jordan
“Will & Grace” starLeslie Jordanhas always managed to get us to smile.
Even one of his final texts embodies Jordan’s positive personality that kept us all laughing during the pandemic.
The “American Horror Story” star’s car crashed into the side of a building in Hollywood.
Sadly, Jordan didn’t get to see Greenfield.
In an interview withE!
News, Greenfield revealed the text that Jordan sent him after the incident.
Jordan reportedly wrote, “I tried to get in.
I saw that you was so famous they wouldn’t let me in.
And they turned my little ass away.
I couldn’t stay, I had to go anyway because I have important things to do.”
It is quite heartwarming to know that he could still make the best of any situation.
The crash took the lives of eight other people, including Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna.
The text exchange is dated December 8, 2019.
“This tequila is awesome,” wrote Bryant, referring to Jordan’s Cincoro Tequila.
Bryant went on to inquire about his friend’s family, asking if they were doing all right.
Jordan texted him, “Happy holidays and hope to catch up soon.
Coach Kobe??!”
“Ah, back at you, man,” Bryant wrote.
Forty-nine days after the exchange, the world bid farewell to the icon.
David Bowie
David Bowie churned out hit after hit starting in the ’60s.
The 69-year-old musical powerhouse never stopped doing what he loved the most making dope music.
His final album was put together while undergoing treatment for cancer, according toTidal.
“We had this very strange writing relationship,” she toldThe Daily Mail.
“He was writing music and I was writing lyrics.”
Just a few days before his death, Bowie sent his final text to her.
“Send me some lyrics.
Don’t forget,” he reportedly wrote.
Dunn’s passenger, Zachary Hartwell, also died during the crash.
In an interview withE!
“He flipped me in a car eight times at the same exact spot in 1996.
He flew 40 feet.
Thank God he’s alive.
But, like, Dunn was always a maniac at driving,” he said.
