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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCathy Smith, Who Injected John Belushi With Fatal Drugs, Dies at 73
After giving an interview to The National Enquirer, she was convicted in Mr. Belushis overdose death and served time in prison.A headline on the cover of The National Enquirer in June 1982 became the defining element of Cathy Smiths life.
I Killed John Belushi, it read, alongside a large photograph of Mr. Belushi, the boisterous comedian. Below the picture another headline added, World Exclusive Mystery Woman Confesses.
The headline and accompanying article were the catalyst that ultimately landed Ms. Smith in jail.
Before the Enquirer article, the circumstances surrounding Mr. Belushis death the previous March, at 33, had remained murky, and it was simply labeled an accidental drug overdose.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/us/cathy-smith-dead.html
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Cathy Smith, Who Injected John Belushi With Fatal Drugs, Dies at 73 (Original Post)
Zorro
Sep 2020
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a kennedy
(29,707 posts)1. Never got over Johns death.
mnmoderatedem
(3,729 posts)2. loved Belushi
but she could take the blame and have fingers pointed at her all of her life. But Belushi was addicted and did not get help, and that is what cost him his life. Period.
She may have enabled, but it's unfair to make her the sole culprit.
Sewa
(1,259 posts)5. Reminds me of an incident when I was in
High school. This guy I went to school with injected drugs into a girls arm and the dude screwed it up. The girl had to have her arm amputated.
There was a newspaper article about the incident. The reporter ask the girl if she blamed the dude for the loss of her arm and she said no, I blame myself for asking him to inject the drugs in my arm.
no_hypocrisy
(46,190 posts)3. I was surprised to learn that she was Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown".
Zorro
(15,749 posts)4. Apparently he had kind words for her on hearing she passed away
She must have been an interesting person.