Patti Davis

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Matthew Perry y la soledad de la adicción

Hace mucho tiempo, me mantuve horas sin dormir, aterrorizada de que fueran las últimas que me quedaran en el mundo. Me había comprometido a dejar la cocaína, que fue mi segunda adicción; la primera, que duró años, fue a las anfetaminas. Estaba intentando limpiar mi organismo y estar sana. Pero entonces me llamó un amigo con el que había consumido cocaína de manera habitual y que siempre la tenía a la mano. Esa noche oscura, caí en el terreno conocido de las líneas blancas sobre el espejo y un corazón que late demasiado deprisa. Latía tan fuerte, tan rápido, tan desbocado, que estaba segura de que ni él ni yo sobreviviríamos.…  Seguir leyendo »

Matthew Perry and the Loneliness of Addiction

A long time ago, I lay awake for hours, terrified that they would be my last ones on earth. I had committed myself to quitting cocaine, which was my second addiction, the first being years of amphetamines. I was devoting myself to cleaning up and getting healthy. But then a friend called who I had routinely done coke with and who always had a supply of the drug. Earlier on that black night, I’d careened backward into the familiar land of white lines on a mirror and a heart racing way too fast. It was pounding so hard, so fast, so loud, I was certain it and I couldn’t survive.…  Seguir leyendo »

From left, Prince William; Charles, then the Prince of Wales; and Prince Harry on the Queen Mother’s 101st birthday in 2001 in London. Anwar Hussein/Getty Images

During the early stages of my father’s Alzheimer’s, when he still had lucid moments, I apologized to him for writing an autobiography many years earlier in which I flung open the gates of our troubled family life. He was already talking less at that point, but his eyes told me he understood.

I thought of that moment when I read that Prince Harry, in his new memoir, wrote about his father, King Charles, getting between his battling sons and saying, “Please, boys, don’t make my final years a misery”.

Time is an unpredictable thing. What will someone’s last memory be? I had the gift of time with my father, which allowed me to apologize, even though a disease hovered between us and clouded our communication.…  Seguir leyendo »

Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Buckingham Palace. John Sibley/Reuters

Death holds up a mirror to everything — moments of love, stretches of strife, memories that punish and exalt. This is true if your family is far removed from the public eye, and it’s true if your family is ensconced in the world’s spotlight.

Queen Elizabeth II was the matriarch both of a country and of the most famous family in the world — certainly the most scrutinized family in the world. That fame, that scrutiny, goes back generations. Children are born into the royal family with the instruction that their lives, with some notable exceptions, will be lived in public.…  Seguir leyendo »