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Oct 11
2007
04:08 PM ET
The PopWatch Confessional (Vol. 36)
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I felt horrible – I was quite young and heard on the t.v. that Elvis was dead. I very casually mentioned it to my mother, having no idea the trauma it would cause, as was horrified when she broke down into tears and collapsed on the couch.
Yikes!
I cried so hard when they killed Boone on Lost and thought it couldn’t get worse. Then they killed Charlie in the season finale. I cried for almost an hour…..
When the OC got cancelled. I got tons of “I just heard… are you OK?” calls/emails from my friends, which made me feel simultaneously cared out and pathetic for reacting that way about a TV show.
My one celebrity moment that ever struck hard was Princess Diana. She was only 5 years older than me and I “grew up with her”. I sat in front of the t.v. for 2 straight days watching news footage and hating the Queen. I even listened to news radio if I had to go out.
It really hit so much harder than I ever thought something like that would.
I mourned Princess Diana’s death, and the awful way it happened. All I could think of were her children. My mother was devastated; we must have sat silently on the phone watching the funeral on TV. I also was saddened by Peter Jennings’ death. I’d had no idea he was so ill. Then ABC gave his desk to two reporters I felt were not experienced enough. After Charlie Gibson got it I was thrilled. Only he could have earned that spot.
When the news ticker on MTV said that Aaliyah had died I thought it was a cruel joke. It was pretty depressing, but I was with friends and they all helped console me. We then discussed how horrible a loss it was. It still saddens me that such a young talent met such an untimely, tragic death.
I was in college when Mr. Rogers died, and practically the entire school went into mourning.
I feel a bit like a schmuck after reading everyone else’s…but…I got several emails asking me how I was holding up when…gulp…Joey McIntyre got engaged/married/and now with his impending fatherhood. I used to get into FIGHTS in grade school (I was a charming child) with other girls over who was the bigger Joey fan and I, erm, always won. I’m still a bit sad it never worked out with Joey and me, but I wish him the best
When John Candy died, I felt like I would never laugh again. I still miss him to this day.
When Brad and Jennifer broke up, it was really hard on my best friend and I. We are OBSESSED with celebrity relationships and we believed in this one. I was working at a newspaper when the news came across the wire. I took a deep gasp and alerted my colleagues, who could not have cared less. Then I called my friend Katrina.
“Are you sitting down?”
“Yeah. What’s wrong?”
“The worst thing ever has happened. Brad and Jennifer are getting a divorce.”
“Noooooooooooo!!!”
There was a lot of consoling on both our parts. We made a pact then that we would never, ever believe in the Hollywood romance again.
in my angst-ridden teenage years i was at my grandma’s and was being particularly moody that day and she asked me, “honey… are you upset because that singer died.” and then i burst into tears and cried in the arms of my 70 year old grandma about kurt cobain.
Not mine, but my friend was heartbroken when Lance Bass came out of the closet. Mine would be the death of Marissa on The OC, I couldn’t believe they did it. In real life, it was the death of Princess Diana as well, I still remember where I was.
A lot of these are a little darker (dealing with real-life people and character’s deaths, which ARE a huge deal, don’t get me wrong) than I expected after Mandi (and her friends’) more lighthearted examples.
So now I feel like a fool when I say my friends had to tiptoe around me when they told me Kiefer Sutherland was going to jail soon. I’m a “24″ nut and, for a split second, I thought it would kill the show. Then I looked into it (and remembered that KS is a REALLY famous person) and realized that it wouldn’t really have an effect on the show at all.
I remember when Princess Diana died, my mom called me into her room and broke it to me very slowly. We were both big fans, and we were both heartbroken.
fred savage got married a few years ago. and then a few years later had a child.
i am still having a hard time believing that i wasn’t his one true love like i imagined it so many times in my head.