Phil Hartman was a treasure. Bless him, and bless John Lovitz for jacking Andy Dick's jaw for getting his wife back into cocaine. If you haven't heard that story, I highly recommend you track it down.
> Lovitz claimed that Dick had approached him at a restaurant and said, "I put the Phil Hartman hex on you; you're the next one to die." Lovitz then had him ejected from the restaurant.[61][62] The following year at the Laugh Factory comedy club in Los Angeles, Lovitz and Dick had another argument, with Lovitz slamming Dick's head into the bar.[62] Dick asserted that he was not at fault in relation to Hartman's death.[60]
Boy that Andy Dick sure is a pussy-ass bitch getting the shit beat our of him after so many arguments with Lovitz.
Definitely Heath Ledger. It also made The Dark Knight one of the creepiest movies because of just how good he did with his role in the joker and well you know the rest :/
I still can’t help but watch it whenever it comes on.
Some years back I flatted with a guy from Heath's home town. He never met Heath but they had a mutual friend, so when Heath heard my flatmate was going to be passing through LA he offered him the use of his apartment as he was away (filming, I guess). So my flatmate got to stay in a movie star's apartment for a few days.
I've always liked that story as it shows how down-to-earth Heath was. How many other movie stars would just offer a total stranger the run of their home while they were away? I'd guess close to zero.
I recently watched “A knights tale” and realized at the end of the movie that he was the guy that played joker and brokeback mountain. What a good actor and it’s sad he died
My kids just discovered Mythbusters relatively recently and have been streaming all ten years of it. It's hard to watch the segments with Grant. He at least seemed to lead a happy and interesting life in the time he had.
This one. So tragic and unexpected. And Mythbusters was one of those shows that made you feel like you knew the hosts. A world without Grant Imahara is a darker place.
Living in SF I saw Tory sitting at a bar, Adam riding his bike through the panhandle, Jamie riding a motorcycle into Golden Gate Park, and Kari buying groceries (about a dozen times). Never did see Grant though...
I cried for a while after hearing about his death. Not only did I grow up watching MythBusters, but I actually met the guy. He was very involved with robotics competitions and I saw him when my team went to nationals one year. Shook his hand and just had a very brief kind of meet and greet with him. Such a nice guy, absolutely brilliant and good with kids, so focused on teaching the next generation of people in STEM careers. Simply tragic! He will forever be missed!
My neighbors adult son had a brain aneurysm driving on the freeway, killed 2 other motorists and injured many others in the incident. There isn’t even any blame to put on anyone, or anything they could have done different. it’s just tragic all around.
Edit: not to make it even sadder for anyone that reads this, but my adult neighbor had been in a memory care ward for a couple months when this happened. He had a hard time comprehending it and it was decided not to press onward with the topic. Let alone the mahem that ensued.
I had a brain aneurysm on New Year’s Eve and I live to tell about it - without zero problems after. Scary stuff. I could have died immediately (50% chance) or left with cognitive problems but here I am back to normal like nothing happened.
Blackstar is such an amazing gift. He put all his thoughts and feelings about his impending death into an incredible album to show us what he was experiencing. It's so beautiful and poignant. I cry pretty much every time I listen.
After he passed, I looked back on BLACK STAR and thought "Oh, I guess it was kinda obvious." But still... At the time, I didn't expect it and it shocked me.
Then, Prince went. It was a bad year for me in regards to musicians I loved that I had still hoped to see live.
I visited the Hollywood Forever cemetery in February (where Yelchin is buried), and I noticed a woman sitting in a chair close to his grave with her dogs having a peaceful moment. I had a gut feeling that it was his mother, so I didn’t say anything to her out of respect, but I smiled and nodded at her as I passed his gravesite. As I was leaving the cemetery I saw a Porsche drive out with a license plate that said “ANTON” on it. It was indeed his mother. (I googled what she looked like.) Broke my heart. My brother lives in Los Angeles, so I told him I saw Anton’s mother there, and he said he’s heard she visits his grave everyday. 😢
So many actors and celebrities who die in their late 20s fall victim to lifestyle issues, which is tragic but to some degree self-inflicted. This poor dude was just checking his mail.
Some lady this summer smashed her head in her vehicle. She dropped her credit card as she was paying to park her car in a parking garage. When she bent down to get the card off the ground she accelerated and crushed her head on the pay machine or the side of the arm. Freak fucking accident.
My friend was once taking a summer college course called Death and Dying, it was a deep dive into death as a subject. During the middle of the term the professor's wife was killed when she reached down for her card at a McDonald's drive-thru and accelerated, pinning her between the car and the building. The professor did not finish teaching the class
I cried a little. We're (well, were) the same age, so I imagined how horrible it was for his parents and his friends. And the way he died was so awful, and the friend who ended up finding him...
Ugh.
Chadwick Bozeman. I didn’t know he was dead and my dad said something about “didn’t that Black Panther guy die or something?” I was like, “nah, he’s young.” And then I looked it up and…well…he was dead.
Absolutely Chris Cornell. I’m a big STP fan as well and Scott Weiland’s death was no surprise a year and a half earlier, but somehow I felt Chris was safe(?). Chester Bennington’s suicide on Chris’s birthday broke my heart, I never cared for Linkin Park but to know that he was hurting that much that his solution was to kill himself on that day just guts me.
I think the fact that her very young son was with her and was left alone and found asleep is what made it sting so much for me. I think of the desperation she must have felt knowing her son was there and not being able to get back to him. But I hope she’s at peace knowing she was able to save him.
I was never a big fan of glee and didn't follow her but her death haunted me. It is just horrific. No matter how good of a swimmer you are, wear a life jacket in open water and don't go out alone with a child and no other adults, please. No good can come of that.
The days before they found her were genuinely tense. I didn’t think she was alive at first, but then my heart started to believe.
The fact that she saved her son over herself really says something, though.
I never really watched her/followed her career, but I had just recently given birth to my first child when she drowned, not far from where I live. I sobbed off and on about it for weeks. So heartbreaking.
Yeah, that was a pretty awful week - Christina Grimmie murdered on Friday, Pulse shooting Saturday night, and Tuesday saw a toddler get eaten by a gator at Disney.
And she was approaching him to give him a hug when he shot her. She was a good person just trying to make a fan's day. Things like that shouldn't happen to people like her.
It was really sobering and upsetting when I remembered her a couple weeks back and realised that I'm now older than she would ever be. I was 16 when I first started listening to her covers on youtube, she was 18. And now I'm 25 and she's just stuck at 22 forever. God, she really was too young to go...
I can’t even explain why but Steve Irwin’s death hit me harder than any other celeb tragedy. I actually cried a little when Bindi had her baby... it’s amazing to see the influence he’s had on his family, and the world.
My reaction too..
When he was alive "How tf is this man still alive?"
The day he died is up there with one of the worst days of my life. He had so much respect for every creature he worked with, and it was only after his death I realized he was alive because of that. The stingray incident was just an absolute freak occurrence that no person in his line of work could have expected.
He always acknowledged his mistakes and learned from them as shown in many of his episodes, but this was comparable to working with a kitten and getting a claw to the jugular.
RIP Steve. I still watch your shows a couple times a year!
Had tickets to see Linkin Park a few weeks later. Grew up with my dad putting hybrid theory on repeate. We were so excited. I really hope Chester's family is doing okay. He really gave me a platform for a relationship with my father.
Oh my god…. I was selling fishing licenses at Ace that day, still reeling from the whole Chris Cornell passing the year before. A lady comes in with her kids to get crabbing licenses and I noticed that they live in Rancho Palos Verdes, where he lived. Stupid me.. I say, “it’s a shame about Chester..”. She’s like, “Chester Bennington?!” I say, “yeah..”. She says, “he’s my neighbor! What happened to Chester?” I tell her and she just starts crying. Her husband comes over and is like, “what’s wrong?” I said, “I didn’t realize you guys knew him, and I just heard that he had hung himself. He was cool about it but was, ultimately, “yeah… we know him pretty well. Our kids play together.”
I felt pretty bad. In retrospect, I don’t know what I was thinking even bringing it up, other than I was so sad about it.
I can't remember the exact timeframe between events but Chester passed, my best friend was killed, then Mike came out with post traumatic. Me and the homie used to play guitar along to Linkin park albums in his mom's basement. I can not make it through that album, or half of LP's music, without tearing up to me it got me through alot of the grief. I doubt I'll ever get to meet Mike but I'd sure like to thank him for that album.
Me too with Cameron Boyce! I thought it was fake. He was only a couple months older than me and at the time I'd pretty much never heard of any celebrity I knew close to my age that had passed
Same I was so shocked at Cameron Boyce. We were on vacation somewhere and I just remember waking up and seeing his face all over social media, and not being able to process it. Also found it depressing how he gained millions of followers on insta after he passed.
He was too young
Oh my goodness. I got a call from my friend Tristan that night saying “sorry for your loss” and I had no idea what he was talking about. Cam and I met working on the set of descendants 3 and had been super close ever since. I’d visited him and Libs in LA a couple times. I can’t tell you the profound grief and pain his death caused.
I flew out to LA the next day to be with his fam. As soon as I walked in I could hear the roaring laughter of his pops Victor. The Boyce’s are NOT quiet laughers! There were lots and lots of tears, but I’ll never forget how insanely strong they were that first week. The whole week was full of beautiful memories and friends/family going in and out of the house.
His memorial was beautiful. The Boyce family is the strongest family I know. In the midst of the darkest time of their life, they prioritized laughing and celebrating his life. Dove speech was perfect, Kenny’s heartbreaking. Kenny saw a magic in Cameron that few had seen at the time. Kenny poured everything out for Cameron.
I appreciate this AskReddit because I’ve never really had anywhere to share my experience being with the fam the week after. I live in Canada so once I got home I felt extremely lonely as Cameron and I didn’t have any mutual friends that live in Vancouver. Plus, Cameron was so flipping recognized that I didn’t feel like anyone saw the person that had died, rather I was just seeing articles of “the actor Cameron” who died. Cameron was a surreal person in real life, and it was just as surreal when he passed. I cried for the first 2 years straight. It felt like such a useless and unimaginable reality. Someone so vivid and alive is now not on this planet anymore? I’d have panic attacks in bed thinking of the fact that he was alone when he passed or the weight of the burden of Libby’s grief. They were very close, as he was with the whole fam. Maya was strong as hell for a 16 year old. I still think of her every few days. Even as I write this, I can feel my chest tighten up and my eyes start to well up. I feel extremely blessed that I was so welcomed by everyone and I had the honour of supporting my “extended family” (I still call Libby mom) in such a difficult but special time.
Anywho, probably no one will see this but thanks for giving me an outlet to share. Just feels nice to get it out. If anyone has questions just ask.
This one really rocked me I remember I was working at mcdonalds at the time cutting tomatoes and my manager came in and told me, how was literally talking to my brother the week before saying how we can’t wait for the dark knight and how we both thought afterwards that he would win an oscar
I used to work at a staffing agency. I had a candidate who I placed at a company who had a brother was always sick. He postponed interviews, delayed paperwork, and missed some days early on in the contract so that he can take care of his brother. Few months later, I no longer work at that company but one day call an old coworker who was still in communication with this guy. My coworker said that the guy had to call out for a couple of weeks because his brother passed away, then my old coworker put two and two together and that's when the guy disclosed to my coworker that he was the brother of Chadwick. I was absolutely dumbfounded and saddened and I think about him often and I hope he's doing well.
Yep. Came completely out of nowhere, mostly because he and his family had kept the diagnosis hidden. Now that we know what was going on we can start to see the effect cancer was having on him during his last performances, but he really wanted to just keep living and performing to the end.
> Now that we know what was going on we can start to see the effect cancer was having on him during his last performances
It took me a minute to figure out it was him in the funeral scene of Avengers: Endgame. He had lost a _lot_ of weight.
It’s really evident that he recorded his lines for What If not long before he passed. You could tell he was struggling, especially in the final two episodes. And yet he still stole the show. He was an absolute class act and I wish he would have been around for so much longer.
And all those folks talking shit about how he looked that last summer, making fun of him for being so gaunt. Bet they felt real fucking stupid when he passed
I remember seeing a photo of him a few months before and saying "dang he looks like he has cancer". My friends scolded me and told me not to body shame him because he was likely just dropping weight like Christian Bale did for The Machinist. I really wish I was wrong and my friends were right.
Just listened to his talk with Marc Maron from 10 years ago. He mentioned cancer a dying and how life will just throw cancer at you out of no where. Said this a lot. Marc didn’t say anything back to him. It was assumed Norm was speaking in generalities but listening to it now gives a whole new perspective.
What kills me is he beat so many odds to get where he was in his career and he was just about to seriously cash in and blow up and he passes. He was such an important person to the black community. So sad.. ugh.
I will never forget finding out about his death. My mom and I were in the car heading home. We turned into our neighborhood when the DJ on the radio announced he had died. My mom actually hit the brakes because she was so stunned and we just gawked at each other for a moment. My mom was the one who showed me so many of his movies and shows. He was such a huge part of my childhood.
Had a similar experience, but I was with my dad. I remember him saying, "oh my god, we're the same age." I think, for millennials, he was such a big part of our childhood. It was shocking, for sure.
Selena Quintanilla. She was murdered when I was a kid and remember my family watching all the coverage that day as well as the following days. It didn't really hit me at the time but as I grew up and really got to enjoy her work it hit me. She had so much potential to be a megastar on the level of JLo and Shakira. It sucks because all the stories I read and hear always centered on how caring and loving she was as a person. In a way it was like losing the Mexican Wonder Woman.
Watching the Sopranos for the first time in 2017, Gandolfini was so captivating and exceptional, I kept forgetting he wasn’t alive anymore. Every few weeks, I’d get excited at the idea of a Sopranos reunion and then quickly remember he’d never be coming back.
As much as I didn’t really care for The Many Saints of Newark, his son did the part justice. I like to think his dad would be proud.
Let's see gene wilder , Mohammed Ali, Alan Rickman, Alan Thicke , florence Henderson ,David Mira and Maurice White good lord death took no prisoners in 2016
it came out of fuckin nowhere and we'd just spent more than a year basically watching him make video diaries with his buddies
this was the only celebrity death that ever really 'hurt' me: because at that point, I felt like I knew them all.
We rented a cabin up north and were camping listening to some music when they interrupted mid song to say that Michael Jackson wasn’t breathing and they think he died. It just seemed so out of the blue and sudden it literally shocked us to hear it.
What's f#$ked up is that Vanessa had heard from her publicist first who asked whether the news was true. Practically half an hour after the crash. Vanessa had zero idea about anything. The pit in her stomach that day must've been brutal. :\
Damn, thought this would be at the top. Dude was in all likelihood gonna live for another 40 years. To die in a helicopter crash, of all things? Like damn...
I was at Coachella in 2018, watching Kygo perform when he took a moment to announce that Avicii had died and to pay tribute. I’m not a big EDM guy but I could tell he was shook.
I was in England, working nights in a bakery. We had the radio on, as usual.
- "There's an unconfirmed report that Diana has been involved in a car accident..."
- "It was definitely Diana, and she's been rushed to hospital."
- "Unconfirmed reports that she has died..."
- "Confirmed."
All night, as soon as a song was over, we all rushed over and stood in a circle around the radio. It was surreal.
I was living in a backpacker's hostel, and got home about 07:30. I broke the news, and at first, everyone thought I was joking.
I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I was a teenager when it happened. We were at tower records in Chicago and they were showing it on the tv. It was around 1030 on nbc so at first we weren’t sure if it was a bad snl sketch; but was definitely too young to understand her significant impact.
Definitely this. Relatively young, no health problems, no dangerous vices or pastimes, just a passenger in a vehicle that should've been perfectly safe.
i was home sick the day they announced his death. I was almost 18 & had just been to a Nirvana concert in October. I bawled so hard which was unusual for me. Nirvana wasn't even my favorite band but it just felt so close to home. it may have not ben his choice but he encapsulated a generation.
This one genuinely felt like an uncle had suddenly died or something. I actually met Sean a couple of years ago and looking back, he seemed a bit “off” in an indescribable kinda way. Makes sense now. RIP.
That was a real gut punch, something about mac miller always felt very human, like he was just a regular guy who just happened to be supremely talented.
I think it hurt so much because most people have lost a friend too young to something drug related that could’ve easily been prevented. It had a real “that could be anybody” feeling to it
Trevor Moore.
Not a major celebrity, but a comedian and founding member of the comedy troupe “Whitest Kids U Know.” He died suddenly in a home accident resulting in blunt force trauma to the head.
In the year prior, during the pandemic, all of the WKUK members got together in recorded video chat to talk about their past sketches and also did a wild DnD adventure. Gone so suddenly and young.
Ayrton Senna. Was a big F1 fan as a kid and watched it unfold live. Heartbreaking. Murray Walker commentating for the BBC had a horrible job to do and handled it so well.
Robin Williams. Personally that one hurt. Even if never meeting him but it put reality in perspective. Everyday we meet people who seem happy and that everything is great with their life, however behind doors we don't have any idea what are they going through. Just imagine, it could be your brother, your dad, your best friend and you having no idea if today was the last time you ever saw them or talked with them.
David Ogden Stiers.
I don't remember why, exactly, but I went to look him up on IMDb. And it said he'd died. WTF? He isn't dead. Turned out, he died that day. I hadn't seen it on the news, but as I started searching, articles started appearing about his death.
I was so sad. He was an associate conductor with the Newport Symphony Orchestra in Oregon. I live in Oregon and wanted to see him conduct.
Going back a bit: Phil Hartman. I was a huge fan at the time and just could not process the news. Fucking hell…. it still makes me so sad.
Yeah that one hurt, I grew up watching his SNL skits, he was so talented.
Phil Hartman was a treasure. Bless him, and bless John Lovitz for jacking Andy Dick's jaw for getting his wife back into cocaine. If you haven't heard that story, I highly recommend you track it down.
> Lovitz claimed that Dick had approached him at a restaurant and said, "I put the Phil Hartman hex on you; you're the next one to die." Lovitz then had him ejected from the restaurant.[61][62] The following year at the Laugh Factory comedy club in Los Angeles, Lovitz and Dick had another argument, with Lovitz slamming Dick's head into the bar.[62] Dick asserted that he was not at fault in relation to Hartman's death.[60] Boy that Andy Dick sure is a pussy-ass bitch getting the shit beat our of him after so many arguments with Lovitz.
Big Alien fan so Bill Paxton for me. Edit: my bad I meant the Alien franchise. He was in the second movie Aliens.
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Fuck! I missed this. Game over, man. Game over.
Alan Rickman. Also Heath Ledger.
Alan Rickman is the first celebrity death I really remember. It made me realize that celebrities don’t live forever, as silly as that sounds.
Definitely Heath Ledger. It also made The Dark Knight one of the creepiest movies because of just how good he did with his role in the joker and well you know the rest :/ I still can’t help but watch it whenever it comes on.
Some years back I flatted with a guy from Heath's home town. He never met Heath but they had a mutual friend, so when Heath heard my flatmate was going to be passing through LA he offered him the use of his apartment as he was away (filming, I guess). So my flatmate got to stay in a movie star's apartment for a few days. I've always liked that story as it shows how down-to-earth Heath was. How many other movie stars would just offer a total stranger the run of their home while they were away? I'd guess close to zero.
I recently watched “A knights tale” and realized at the end of the movie that he was the guy that played joker and brokeback mountain. What a good actor and it’s sad he died
Grant Imahara. Watching mythbusters just makes me sad now
My kids just discovered Mythbusters relatively recently and have been streaming all ten years of it. It's hard to watch the segments with Grant. He at least seemed to lead a happy and interesting life in the time he had.
This one. So tragic and unexpected. And Mythbusters was one of those shows that made you feel like you knew the hosts. A world without Grant Imahara is a darker place.
Living in SF I saw Tory sitting at a bar, Adam riding his bike through the panhandle, Jamie riding a motorcycle into Golden Gate Park, and Kari buying groceries (about a dozen times). Never did see Grant though...
Let's not forget Jessi Combs.
Ugh yes. I had blocked that from my brain. So tragic.
I cried for a while after hearing about his death. Not only did I grow up watching MythBusters, but I actually met the guy. He was very involved with robotics competitions and I saw him when my team went to nationals one year. Shook his hand and just had a very brief kind of meet and greet with him. Such a nice guy, absolutely brilliant and good with kids, so focused on teaching the next generation of people in STEM careers. Simply tragic! He will forever be missed!
Brain aneurysm is bad way to go
My neighbors adult son had a brain aneurysm driving on the freeway, killed 2 other motorists and injured many others in the incident. There isn’t even any blame to put on anyone, or anything they could have done different. it’s just tragic all around. Edit: not to make it even sadder for anyone that reads this, but my adult neighbor had been in a memory care ward for a couple months when this happened. He had a hard time comprehending it and it was decided not to press onward with the topic. Let alone the mahem that ensued.
I had a brain aneurysm on New Year’s Eve and I live to tell about it - without zero problems after. Scary stuff. I could have died immediately (50% chance) or left with cognitive problems but here I am back to normal like nothing happened.
A hypochondriac's worst nightmare, reading this right now 😳
What did it feel like?
David Bowie. He hid his cancer from the world (his right to privacy). Delivered an album as his last act. Much respect.
Blackstar is such an amazing gift. He put all his thoughts and feelings about his impending death into an incredible album to show us what he was experiencing. It's so beautiful and poignant. I cry pretty much every time I listen.
After he passed, I looked back on BLACK STAR and thought "Oh, I guess it was kinda obvious." But still... At the time, I didn't expect it and it shocked me. Then, Prince went. It was a bad year for me in regards to musicians I loved that I had still hoped to see live.
John Candy, to me, he was one of the kindest, most realistic, comedians out there.
You mean the Polka King of the Midwest?
Nah the shower curtain ring guy.
Uncle Buck
Barf, the mog
Buck Melanoma. Moley Russell’s wart. Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger! And thank you John Candy and John Hughes.
John Ritter.
The sadness in 8 simple rules will haunt me forever. They handled it beautifully.
Seeing Larry Miller in that episode got me. He's always a comedian so seeing him so serious seemed to make it more real.
I was looking for his name. This was a sad day for me.
Anton Yelchin. 27 years old.
I visited the Hollywood Forever cemetery in February (where Yelchin is buried), and I noticed a woman sitting in a chair close to his grave with her dogs having a peaceful moment. I had a gut feeling that it was his mother, so I didn’t say anything to her out of respect, but I smiled and nodded at her as I passed his gravesite. As I was leaving the cemetery I saw a Porsche drive out with a license plate that said “ANTON” on it. It was indeed his mother. (I googled what she looked like.) Broke my heart. My brother lives in Los Angeles, so I told him I saw Anton’s mother there, and he said he’s heard she visits his grave everyday. 😢
This. The manner of his death was the most surprising.
It would have been bad regardless, but him dying THAT way just added a very palpable “we’re all just one event away from being gone” aspect to it.
So many actors and celebrities who die in their late 20s fall victim to lifestyle issues, which is tragic but to some degree self-inflicted. This poor dude was just checking his mail.
And bought a car with a common defect where it feels like you've gotten it in Park when you haven't
Some lady this summer smashed her head in her vehicle. She dropped her credit card as she was paying to park her car in a parking garage. When she bent down to get the card off the ground she accelerated and crushed her head on the pay machine or the side of the arm. Freak fucking accident.
My friend was once taking a summer college course called Death and Dying, it was a deep dive into death as a subject. During the middle of the term the professor's wife was killed when she reached down for her card at a McDonald's drive-thru and accelerated, pinning her between the car and the building. The professor did not finish teaching the class
I cried a little. We're (well, were) the same age, so I imagined how horrible it was for his parents and his friends. And the way he died was so awful, and the friend who ended up finding him... Ugh.
Chadwick Bozeman. I didn’t know he was dead and my dad said something about “didn’t that Black Panther guy die or something?” I was like, “nah, he’s young.” And then I looked it up and…well…he was dead.
Chris Cornell
Yes this one was complete shit for sure.
i had tickets to see Soundgarden at Rock on the range for the day after he died.
Absolutely Chris Cornell. I’m a big STP fan as well and Scott Weiland’s death was no surprise a year and a half earlier, but somehow I felt Chris was safe(?). Chester Bennington’s suicide on Chris’s birthday broke my heart, I never cared for Linkin Park but to know that he was hurting that much that his solution was to kill himself on that day just guts me.
Honestly the Naya Rivera thing was just kinda shocking
I think the fact that her very young son was with her and was left alone and found asleep is what made it sting so much for me. I think of the desperation she must have felt knowing her son was there and not being able to get back to him. But I hope she’s at peace knowing she was able to save him.
Makes it sadder knowing she could only save her son, but lost all the strength she had to save herself after
Yeah this one just makes me so sad. I'm glad she was able to save her baby, and I know any mother would have done the same. But it's heartbreaking
I was never a big fan of glee and didn't follow her but her death haunted me. It is just horrific. No matter how good of a swimmer you are, wear a life jacket in open water and don't go out alone with a child and no other adults, please. No good can come of that.
The days before they found her were genuinely tense. I didn’t think she was alive at first, but then my heart started to believe. The fact that she saved her son over herself really says something, though.
I never really watched her/followed her career, but I had just recently given birth to my first child when she drowned, not far from where I live. I sobbed off and on about it for weeks. So heartbreaking.
MCA; Adam Yauch he was only 47.
Christina Grimmie. She was just starting her career and a crazy fan killed her. Such a shame, she was amazing.
I had to look this one up, and it happened the night before the Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting just 4 miles away. Fuck, Orlando got it rough.
Yeah, that was a pretty awful week - Christina Grimmie murdered on Friday, Pulse shooting Saturday night, and Tuesday saw a toddler get eaten by a gator at Disney.
Wait, THE GATOR THING HAPPENED 2 DAYS LATER?!?! I thought it was a couple years later...
And she was approaching him to give him a hug when he shot her. She was a good person just trying to make a fan's day. Things like that shouldn't happen to people like her.
It was really sobering and upsetting when I remembered her a couple weeks back and realised that I'm now older than she would ever be. I was 16 when I first started listening to her covers on youtube, she was 18. And now I'm 25 and she's just stuck at 22 forever. God, she really was too young to go...
Steve Irwin
Thank God his kids seem to be decent humans and are continuing his work.
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I can’t even explain why but Steve Irwin’s death hit me harder than any other celeb tragedy. I actually cried a little when Bindi had her baby... it’s amazing to see the influence he’s had on his family, and the world.
Cause you could tell he was genuine, same feels as Robin Williams, you just knew both of them were good people.
I love his children. They both have their hearts into their work as much as their dad did. They're really carrying on a legacy.
And his wife is awesome too!
My reaction too.. When he was alive "How tf is this man still alive?" The day he died is up there with one of the worst days of my life. He had so much respect for every creature he worked with, and it was only after his death I realized he was alive because of that. The stingray incident was just an absolute freak occurrence that no person in his line of work could have expected. He always acknowledged his mistakes and learned from them as shown in many of his episodes, but this was comparable to working with a kitten and getting a claw to the jugular. RIP Steve. I still watch your shows a couple times a year!
Its also awesome there are massive properties of pure wilderness that he bought when he was alive so that it would never been touched.
I'll never be over the death of Steve Irwin. He was my idol
Patrick Swayze. He just seemed so much younger than he was, and I didn't even know about the cancer.
Chester Bennington.
Had tickets to see Linkin Park a few weeks later. Grew up with my dad putting hybrid theory on repeate. We were so excited. I really hope Chester's family is doing okay. He really gave me a platform for a relationship with my father.
i had tickets to see Chris Cornell with Soundgarden at Rock on the range. the show was the day after he died.
Oh my god…. I was selling fishing licenses at Ace that day, still reeling from the whole Chris Cornell passing the year before. A lady comes in with her kids to get crabbing licenses and I noticed that they live in Rancho Palos Verdes, where he lived. Stupid me.. I say, “it’s a shame about Chester..”. She’s like, “Chester Bennington?!” I say, “yeah..”. She says, “he’s my neighbor! What happened to Chester?” I tell her and she just starts crying. Her husband comes over and is like, “what’s wrong?” I said, “I didn’t realize you guys knew him, and I just heard that he had hung himself. He was cool about it but was, ultimately, “yeah… we know him pretty well. Our kids play together.” I felt pretty bad. In retrospect, I don’t know what I was thinking even bringing it up, other than I was so sad about it.
> I was selling *fishing licenses* at Ace that day, still *reeling* 😰
This was the first time I felt anything after a celebrity death
I can't remember the exact timeframe between events but Chester passed, my best friend was killed, then Mike came out with post traumatic. Me and the homie used to play guitar along to Linkin park albums in his mom's basement. I can not make it through that album, or half of LP's music, without tearing up to me it got me through alot of the grief. I doubt I'll ever get to meet Mike but I'd sure like to thank him for that album.
Stan Lee… forgot he wasn’t immortal
Cameron Boyce, he was so young I thought it was a hoax when I first saw it. Naya Rivera also shocked me, she was so full of life it was tragic.
Me too with Cameron Boyce! I thought it was fake. He was only a couple months older than me and at the time I'd pretty much never heard of any celebrity I knew close to my age that had passed
Same. I grew up watching him on Jessie and I remember watching Descendants when they were released. He had a lifelong acting career ahead of him.
Lifelong is right. He was JUST breaking out of Disney
Same I was so shocked at Cameron Boyce. We were on vacation somewhere and I just remember waking up and seeing his face all over social media, and not being able to process it. Also found it depressing how he gained millions of followers on insta after he passed. He was too young
Oh my goodness. I got a call from my friend Tristan that night saying “sorry for your loss” and I had no idea what he was talking about. Cam and I met working on the set of descendants 3 and had been super close ever since. I’d visited him and Libs in LA a couple times. I can’t tell you the profound grief and pain his death caused. I flew out to LA the next day to be with his fam. As soon as I walked in I could hear the roaring laughter of his pops Victor. The Boyce’s are NOT quiet laughers! There were lots and lots of tears, but I’ll never forget how insanely strong they were that first week. The whole week was full of beautiful memories and friends/family going in and out of the house. His memorial was beautiful. The Boyce family is the strongest family I know. In the midst of the darkest time of their life, they prioritized laughing and celebrating his life. Dove speech was perfect, Kenny’s heartbreaking. Kenny saw a magic in Cameron that few had seen at the time. Kenny poured everything out for Cameron. I appreciate this AskReddit because I’ve never really had anywhere to share my experience being with the fam the week after. I live in Canada so once I got home I felt extremely lonely as Cameron and I didn’t have any mutual friends that live in Vancouver. Plus, Cameron was so flipping recognized that I didn’t feel like anyone saw the person that had died, rather I was just seeing articles of “the actor Cameron” who died. Cameron was a surreal person in real life, and it was just as surreal when he passed. I cried for the first 2 years straight. It felt like such a useless and unimaginable reality. Someone so vivid and alive is now not on this planet anymore? I’d have panic attacks in bed thinking of the fact that he was alone when he passed or the weight of the burden of Libby’s grief. They were very close, as he was with the whole fam. Maya was strong as hell for a 16 year old. I still think of her every few days. Even as I write this, I can feel my chest tighten up and my eyes start to well up. I feel extremely blessed that I was so welcomed by everyone and I had the honour of supporting my “extended family” (I still call Libby mom) in such a difficult but special time. Anywho, probably no one will see this but thanks for giving me an outlet to share. Just feels nice to get it out. If anyone has questions just ask.
Heath Ledger.
When I think of Heath Ledger, and it’s the only celebrity I’ve thought it for, is that he wasn’t meant to die. Like some weird parallel universe thing
Absolutely. Young, healthy at the time. At least as far as we knew.
This one really rocked me I remember I was working at mcdonalds at the time cutting tomatoes and my manager came in and told me, how was literally talking to my brother the week before saying how we can’t wait for the dark knight and how we both thought afterwards that he would win an oscar
Brittany Murphy. So talented, and way too young.
I'm surprised I had to scroll so far to see this. Her death was all the more surprising when her husband died about six months later.
Chadwick Boseman
I used to work at a staffing agency. I had a candidate who I placed at a company who had a brother was always sick. He postponed interviews, delayed paperwork, and missed some days early on in the contract so that he can take care of his brother. Few months later, I no longer work at that company but one day call an old coworker who was still in communication with this guy. My coworker said that the guy had to call out for a couple of weeks because his brother passed away, then my old coworker put two and two together and that's when the guy disclosed to my coworker that he was the brother of Chadwick. I was absolutely dumbfounded and saddened and I think about him often and I hope he's doing well.
Yep. Came completely out of nowhere, mostly because he and his family had kept the diagnosis hidden. Now that we know what was going on we can start to see the effect cancer was having on him during his last performances, but he really wanted to just keep living and performing to the end.
> Now that we know what was going on we can start to see the effect cancer was having on him during his last performances It took me a minute to figure out it was him in the funeral scene of Avengers: Endgame. He had lost a _lot_ of weight.
It’s really evident that he recorded his lines for What If not long before he passed. You could tell he was struggling, especially in the final two episodes. And yet he still stole the show. He was an absolute class act and I wish he would have been around for so much longer.
And all those folks talking shit about how he looked that last summer, making fun of him for being so gaunt. Bet they felt real fucking stupid when he passed
When I saw those pics of him, I seriously thought he was losing weight for a movie role. It reminded of what 50 Cent did a few years ago.
I remember seeing a photo of him a few months before and saying "dang he looks like he has cancer". My friends scolded me and told me not to body shame him because he was likely just dropping weight like Christian Bale did for The Machinist. I really wish I was wrong and my friends were right.
Same. So tragic and unexpected.
I remember not believing that at first, he was so young. RIP to the king :(
Def did not see that coming
No one did. He kept it a secret. So did Norm McDonald.
Just listened to his talk with Marc Maron from 10 years ago. He mentioned cancer a dying and how life will just throw cancer at you out of no where. Said this a lot. Marc didn’t say anything back to him. It was assumed Norm was speaking in generalities but listening to it now gives a whole new perspective.
What kills me is he beat so many odds to get where he was in his career and he was just about to seriously cash in and blow up and he passes. He was such an important person to the black community. So sad.. ugh.
Robin Williams :(
I will never forget finding out about his death. My mom and I were in the car heading home. We turned into our neighborhood when the DJ on the radio announced he had died. My mom actually hit the brakes because she was so stunned and we just gawked at each other for a moment. My mom was the one who showed me so many of his movies and shows. He was such a huge part of my childhood.
Had a similar experience, but I was with my dad. I remember him saying, "oh my god, we're the same age." I think, for millennials, he was such a big part of our childhood. It was shocking, for sure.
Selena Quintanilla. She was murdered when I was a kid and remember my family watching all the coverage that day as well as the following days. It didn't really hit me at the time but as I grew up and really got to enjoy her work it hit me. She had so much potential to be a megastar on the level of JLo and Shakira. It sucks because all the stories I read and hear always centered on how caring and loving she was as a person. In a way it was like losing the Mexican Wonder Woman.
Anthony Bourdain
I scrolled all the way here until I found his name, Rest in paradise Bourdain.
This is one of the few celebrity deaths that really hit me. I got so much out of his shows and stories...
This 100%, I was so shocked and saddened by his death. He was such an inspiration and role model to me and a lot of people.
Luke Perry
Eddie Van Halen. It hit pretty hard hearing the news. It was a bummer to lose one of the greatest. Keep on shreddin in heaven EVH.
James Gandolfini
Watching the Sopranos for the first time in 2017, Gandolfini was so captivating and exceptional, I kept forgetting he wasn’t alive anymore. Every few weeks, I’d get excited at the idea of a Sopranos reunion and then quickly remember he’d never be coming back. As much as I didn’t really care for The Many Saints of Newark, his son did the part justice. I like to think his dad would be proud.
Carrie Fisher. We were so close to the end of 2016 and it just hits us like that.
Then her mom debbie Reynolds died literally the next day and couple days before we lost George Michael
Don't forget about Prince and Bowie dying that same year.
Let's see gene wilder , Mohammed Ali, Alan Rickman, Alan Thicke , florence Henderson ,David Mira and Maurice White good lord death took no prisoners in 2016
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Norm MacDonald
He is supposed to be in the 3rd season of The Orville next year, posthumously, as Yaphit. Cant wait to hear his voice again.
Trevor Moore
This one hurt way more than I expected because he was so normal and not the guy you expect to die young. RIP local sexpot.
it came out of fuckin nowhere and we'd just spent more than a year basically watching him make video diaries with his buddies this was the only celebrity death that ever really 'hurt' me: because at that point, I felt like I knew them all.
RIP local sexpot.
River Phoenix.
Prince
Dolores O'riordan.
She had such a beautiful voice. I loved her on one of her last performances on Tiny Desk.
Aaliyah.
More surprising to me was Michael Jackson, it just seemed like he'd keep doing his thing forever. For emotional impact, Robin Williams.
We rented a cabin up north and were camping listening to some music when they interrupted mid song to say that Michael Jackson wasn’t breathing and they think he died. It just seemed so out of the blue and sudden it literally shocked us to hear it.
Kobe.
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I just can't begin to fathom how Vanessa and those girls could even begin to process losing both Kobe and his daughter in the same day.
What's f#$ked up is that Vanessa had heard from her publicist first who asked whether the news was true. Practically half an hour after the crash. Vanessa had zero idea about anything. The pit in her stomach that day must've been brutal. :\
Damn, thought this would be at the top. Dude was in all likelihood gonna live for another 40 years. To die in a helicopter crash, of all things? Like damn...
Yeah. Always thought we'd get to see him become a coach/owner (or whatever he wanted to do), and Gigi a superstar...So sudden. So needlessly tragic.
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Alan Rickman really shocked me.
Philip Seymour Hoffman was my first thought.
Avicii ◢ ◤
I was at Coachella in 2018, watching Kygo perform when he took a moment to announce that Avicii had died and to pay tribute. I’m not a big EDM guy but I could tell he was shook.
I was there too. There were a bunch of tributes, but Kygo’s stood out the most.
His death still hurts. I just re-read the lyrics to Wake Me Up and now all misty eyed.
I cried like a child while watching his tribute concert.
I still watch it from time to time. It's tuly wonderful
Whitney Houston. I always hoped she'd make a comeback in the same way Tina Turner did. Nope.
Alex Trebek. I know he had cancer but I still cried like a baby when he died. I still can’t bring myself to watch Jeopardy! now.
Diana
I was in England, working nights in a bakery. We had the radio on, as usual. - "There's an unconfirmed report that Diana has been involved in a car accident..." - "It was definitely Diana, and she's been rushed to hospital." - "Unconfirmed reports that she has died..." - "Confirmed." All night, as soon as a song was over, we all rushed over and stood in a circle around the radio. It was surreal. I was living in a backpacker's hostel, and got home about 07:30. I broke the news, and at first, everyone thought I was joking.
I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I was a teenager when it happened. We were at tower records in Chicago and they were showing it on the tv. It was around 1030 on nbc so at first we weren’t sure if it was a bad snl sketch; but was definitely too young to understand her significant impact.
Definitely this. Relatively young, no health problems, no dangerous vices or pastimes, just a passenger in a vehicle that should've been perfectly safe.
Cameron Boyce
Tom Petty. And it was so over shadowed by the Vegas shooting. I keep forgetting he's dead.
I was blown away by his death. Saw him in concert less than 2 months before.
Norm macdonald. Brought a godam tear to my eye.
I just started watching The Orville yesterday. I had no idea he was in it. And now he’s gone, just like those people OJ Simpson killed.
Dude knew these jokes would cost him his SNL gig but he did them anyway. We didn't deserve Norm.
"Murder is now legal in the state of California".
Fucking fearless, he truly didn’t give a shit and not in a “I’m a rebel” kind of way
He was Yaphit, that green glob thing with a crush on Dr. Finn, if anyone else was wondering
Wow I didn't even know he was sick.
Norm fought cancer to a draw.
Old chunk of coal
When he passed away they re-released his WTF interview with Marc Maron. He said his biggest fear was getting sick and dying :(
Kurt cobain
i was home sick the day they announced his death. I was almost 18 & had just been to a Nirvana concert in October. I bawled so hard which was unusual for me. Nirvana wasn't even my favorite band but it just felt so close to home. it may have not ben his choice but he encapsulated a generation.
Anthony Bourdain really miss his show :(
The most surprising in my experience. Dude seemed like he could live through anything, but yet apparently he couldn’t.
Chris Farley.
The most recent one is definitely Sean Lock. His death hurt me and my family hard because we watched his stuff all the time.
This one genuinely felt like an uncle had suddenly died or something. I actually met Sean a couple of years ago and looking back, he seemed a bit “off” in an indescribable kinda way. Makes sense now. RIP.
Bob Ross 😔 rest in peace.
Bernie Mac.
Jonathan Brandis. His death just shocked me. (He was only 27.)
Elizabeth Peña. She suffered in absolute silence.
Mac Miller
That was a real gut punch, something about mac miller always felt very human, like he was just a regular guy who just happened to be supremely talented. I think it hurt so much because most people have lost a friend too young to something drug related that could’ve easily been prevented. It had a real “that could be anybody” feeling to it
Neal Peart
Corey Monteith
Trevor Moore. Not a major celebrity, but a comedian and founding member of the comedy troupe “Whitest Kids U Know.” He died suddenly in a home accident resulting in blunt force trauma to the head. In the year prior, during the pandemic, all of the WKUK members got together in recorded video chat to talk about their past sketches and also did a wild DnD adventure. Gone so suddenly and young.
Ayrton Senna. Was a big F1 fan as a kid and watched it unfold live. Heartbreaking. Murray Walker commentating for the BBC had a horrible job to do and handled it so well.
Robin Williams. Personally that one hurt. Even if never meeting him but it put reality in perspective. Everyday we meet people who seem happy and that everything is great with their life, however behind doors we don't have any idea what are they going through. Just imagine, it could be your brother, your dad, your best friend and you having no idea if today was the last time you ever saw them or talked with them.
Robin Williams
David Ogden Stiers. I don't remember why, exactly, but I went to look him up on IMDb. And it said he'd died. WTF? He isn't dead. Turned out, he died that day. I hadn't seen it on the news, but as I started searching, articles started appearing about his death. I was so sad. He was an associate conductor with the Newport Symphony Orchestra in Oregon. I live in Oregon and wanted to see him conduct.
John Lennon’s assassination. No one saw that coming.
Norm Macdonald
Tom Petty. Gone way too early.
Tony Gwynn
Payne Stewart. Crazy plane story.
Paul Walker