20 Celebs Who Died In Freaky Accidents
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6. Tennessee Williams
In 1957, Williams’s play Orpheus Descending opened on Broadway. It was a critical and commercial failure, ending after only sixty-eight performances. He became deeply depressed and eventually underwent psychoanalysis.
Also, heavy substance abuse contributed to his creative collapse. In the mid-1950s, Williams started using drugs and alcohol to deal with his chronic anxiety. By the early 1960s, his daily intake had grown to staggering proportions: two packs of cigarettes, as much as a fifth of liquor, plus a handful of pills.
In 1963, his pal Frank Merlo died of lung cancer. Williams fell into a bout of depression that lasted for ten years. In 1969, he had a nervous breakdown and his brother Dakin took him to a mental hospital in St. Louis. In 1972, the play Small Craft Warnings opened off-Broadway. It was the last of Williams’s professional successes.
His life came to an end on 24 February 1983. While taking his daily medications, he choked to death on a medicine bottle cap in his room at the Hotel Elysée in New York City.
Williams once wrote:
“I’ve had a wonderful and terrible life and I wouldn’t cry for myself: would you?”
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