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At a time when Holiday claimed she had been clean for more than a year, White busted Holiday at San Francisco’s Mark Twain Hotel, saying he found opium in a wastebasket and a heroin kit in...
She was also a heroin user, a heavy drinker and a victim of rape and domestic violence at the hands of various men. She fully embodies these horrifying experiences on the recording of “Strange...
A couple of years later — around 1943 — her opium habit evolved into a heroin addiction when the war caused opium shortages and heroin took its place on the market. She continued to play and record music, with much of her money going to support her drug habit and that of her husband.
So now, on top of the cirrhosis of the liver, Billie went into heroin withdrawal, alone. A doctor was brought into the hospital at the insistence of her friends to prescribe methadone. She was ...
Holiday is then seen with trumpeter Joe Guy (Melvin Gregg), who had an affair with her and supplied her with drugs while struggling with addiction himself (although it should be noted that it...
Billie Holiday died in Metropolitan Hospital, New York, on Friday, July 17, 1959, in the bed in which she had been arrested for illegal possession of narcotics a little more than a month before, as she lay mortally ill; in the room from which a police guard had been removed – by court order – only a few hours before her death ...
12. Aug. 2019 · For him, Billie Holiday was an ideal symptom of the drug problem—and an irresistible target for his crusade. She was a woman. She was black. As a child, she scrubbed floors in a brothel. She...
