re: #133 Floral Giraffe
Vanity Fair says opiates
Admittedly I’m basing this on a very limited knowledge of the man, however:
I find that really hard to believe. From what I’ve heard about his work ethic, his religious attitudes, and the top-down, highly private way he ran his estate, drugs just sound really freaking unlikely, unless his staff and helpers were complicit in getting him drugs. Did he have a Dr. Feelgood? How long did he have a problem? If he was using, he was hiding it well, IMO.
Addiction is a bitch, but he just never came across as wanting to mess with anything that put him out of control in any way, unless he was experimenting and things got out of control.
Edit: I am not one to think wishfully. If toxicology comes back showing he was loaded up on Heroin, I’ll change how I think of him. But right now, this sounds like gossip.