“I am absolutely heartbroken. For those of us lucky enough to have known him, Adam radiated a contagious exuberance for life and also personified the very definition of a true friend. To say that he will be missed beyond words is an understatement. My heart goes out to his loved ones.”
– Mandy Moore speaks out about the death of her ex-boyfriend, DJ AM.
Enough already.
The guy spun records for a living. He didn’t create music of his own or knew how to play a musical instrument. He put on records from other people and entertained some rich fucks that were stoned.
The world is a fucked up place when we mourn such a useless addition to society while real important people get a footnote.
The piece of shit probably shoved someone else out of the way to escape the fire in the plane and then he throws it all away later selfishly.
Please.
I have to agree.
I can’t understand why this man is being glorified when what he did was select music tracks.
He died next to a crack pipe.
Yes… this is a life we should be celebrating. One that was thrown away.
Fabulous.
If you don’t want to hear about him then don’t read gossip sites, That’s what they talk about. Dumb fuck.
well you don’t have to read other people’s comments. no one is making you.
as blunt and inappropriate as your comments can seem, i have to agree with you mr. donkey punch.
my main issue is with the fact that when you are given a second chance at life, you don’t just piss it away with drugs.
I cannot believe how much space this guy has received. He was not an icon like MJ, he was not some glorified Kennedy, not someone who died with a cancer battle and an icon like Farrah…and all of the listed people received less space here than this guy…What makes him so super special? Truly sad when anyone so young dies, and I feel badly for his friends and family, but really, enough already…this site, in particular, has given him his 10 minutes already, and then some. RIP DJ AM, let’s read some news.
Farrah and MJ have both received WAY more posts than AM. AM was also a large figure in the addiction recovery community especially in LA. Many people may not know this but he has helped a lot of people get back on the right track. Just because he may have had a slip up in his own battle with addiction doesn’t make him a horrible person unworthy of coverage. MJ has at least 8 pages of posts containing info on his death, his memory and updated news surrounding his death. Farrah has 2 pages worth. AM has 3 posts. Kennedy is a Senator and not someone typically covered by gossip blogs. I loved him as a public figure but I go somewhere else to get my news about him. Maybe you should too. Maybe you should know what you are talking about before you go on a rant.
In case you missed any news on Farrah or MJ feel free to read up here:
http://evilbeetgossip.film.com/category/michael-jackson/
http://evilbeetgossip.film.com/category/farrah-fawcett/
You know NONE of us know the demons that affected his life to push him to the point. He is apart of the celebrity ring and thus deserves as much coverage as anyone else. Yes he was a drug addict but he was still a human being. Have some human compassion the world has gone to S*** because of people like YOU too!!!!
It sucks that he died but if he was an addict it shouldn’t be too much of a shock to people. A lot of drug abusers die, unfortunately. I’m kind of surprised by the amount of coverage there is about this. To be honest, if he wasn’t in that plane crash last year with Travis Barker I’d have no idea who he was. After the crash I didn’t really hear much about him either. Did he do something I’m missing or was he just a DJ in the LA area?
He also dated and was engaged to Nicole Richie a few years back.
Yea. it sucks that he died, but besides being engaged to nicole richie and being in that plane crash, i never really heard much about him. but, i live on the east coast, so maybe he was more famous on the west coast. i don’t know. i’ve heard more about him today then i ever did before. it’s ironic that a private person is now getting this much coverage. he led a pretty private life, so let him die in private too.
i know this is a gossip blog and we’re not here to be nice, but really, a death is a death. people are going to be upset, so let them without your unnecessary commentary. tomorrow i’m sure we’ll be making fun of lindsay lohan again (though if you can’t wait, you can reply to this comment with various jibes).
So what you are saying is don’t comment in the comment section. Okay, go back and read that 10 times. Notice anything stupid in your statement yet? Okay read it another 10 times and this time stop your lips from reading along.
So over this story already. Didn’t even know who this guy was until he died.
uhm, why hasn’t anyone mentioned what a shitbag that mandy moore is yet. seriously, who talks like that? she acts like this shit spewing from her mouth is so profound and all that is good and holy. eff off mandy, you retard.
As if she came up with any of that bullshit on her own. She has people to do that for her. I wonder if she even reads it before it’s released to the media?
im just annoyed at how today there were 3 posts all of which were about this guy. i mean when mj died you guys did like 2 posts on that and he is one of the most famous people in the world. this guy gets glorified. it is definetly sad he died but he joined the other thousands of people who died today. its the circle of life baby. he just happened to date some famous nobodys. so what.
2 Posts on MJ? You HAVE to be kidding me. You obviously don’t read this site often. Here’s what a quick search will turn up.
http://evilbeetgossip.film.com/category/michael-jackson/
It is well over 2 posts and more like 8 pages just on his death and updated info since. Quit your whining.
There were way more than 2 posts about Michael Jackson…
I don’t understand why everyone is whining so much. It’s an interesting quote because Mandy Moore dated him, Beet’s post was interesting because she knew him personally and the other post about him gave us the details of his death. All of these are very appropriate EB posts.
Ok finally. In an earlier post, he was called “a great man.” I had wanted to ask “how?” but I didn’t dare, until reading these comments. It’s sad when someone dies but really, does the world stop a-turning because DJ AM died? It’s always sad when someone dies but….
I saw that too and I was confused.
Also, for Kennedy’s death, Wendy questioned why Kennedy was called a “good man’ but then turns around and calls this dj, who was known for having a drug addiction, dating celebrities, and being in a car crash great.
also, kennedy’s funeral was yesterday and no postings about that. why not?
You know what I think was great about him? He did something with his years of sobriety by helping others get clean.
so dj am messes up and starts doing drugs. he realizes what he did is wrong and fixes his life and helps others. and apparently, this makes him great.
kennedy fucks up and tries to make amends and devotes his career to serving america. he passes over 300 laws and is the third longest serving senator. but he doesn’t even deserved to be called “good” to you.
so apparently, dj am shouldn’t be judge on his mistakes but his accomplishments, but kennedy should be judge on his failures and not is accomplishments?
DJ AM was an addict. Ted Kennedy left someone for dead.
To Wendie
My point is that if you judge any person by their worst action then no one would be seen as “good” or “great.” do you really think someone’s life is based on one moment?
My characterization of Ted Kennedy as not a “good man” was based on a hell of a lot more than one moment. Let’s not walk down the Easter Weekend 1991 road, okay?
Addiction just doesn’t equal bad character to me. It’s sad, it’s an illness, I don’t think being an addict means you aren’t a good person. TK was an addict, too. I don’t fault him for that. I do fault him for horrible things that he did (and did not do). Being a drunk or a junkie doesn’t mean that you don’t know right from wrong.
And I don’t judge TK’s entire life by his poor character. Like I said the other day, he did a lot of good politically on both the national and state level. I just object to the media’s definition of him being a “good man.”
And to clarify, because I had a hard time believing I said DJ AM was “great”, I’m pretty sure this is the only thing I even said about this dude:
“So true. It seems like he helped so many others that were striving for or living in or hoping for recovery. I hope that is what his legacy will be.”
That hardly sounds like “Also, for Kennedy’s death, Wendy questioned why Kennedy was called a “good man’ but then turns around and calls this dj, who was known for having a drug addiction, dating celebrities, and being in a car crash great.”
I believe you wrote “You know what I think was great about him?” so yea, you did call dj am great.
i never said addict=bad person. i think addicts tend to make bad choices in life though. i hate the whole “addiction is an illness” theory. all that does is take responsibility off the addict. it was his choice to do drugs and he knew the repercussions. same with TK, he was an alcoholic and he chose to drink and that led to him making very poor decisions in his life.
the rape incident is still very vague because none of us but william smith and the girl will know if it was rape or not. yea, kennedy walked in on them having sex and then walked out. hell, if i saw a family member having sex, i would leave as quickly as possible too. he defended his nephew. i don’t think that makes him a bad person especially since no one was clear what the situation was.
“I believe you wrote “You know what I think was great about him?” so yea, you did call dj am great.”
Yeah, I wrote that in response to you questioning why I called him “great” (which I never did). And I do think that DJ AM’s assisting fellow addicts was a great quality that he possessed.
In regards to the rest regarding addiction (being an illness or not) and character, we obviously just don’t agree. And that’s okay.
What I want to know is what was DJ FM up to during the hours that DJ AM was suspected of dying?
Here’s why the story makes me shake my head a little bit. He was off drugs for 9 years. Think of his family and friends. I have family who are addicts. I worry about them all of the time. But if any one of them had been clean for 9 years, I’d think all was well. I’d feel like wow; we dodged a bullet. I’d get comfortable with the idea that drugs/alcohol were not going to claim them like some thief in the night. It’s a shock. It’s a real eye opener that people with addictions are ALWAYS super close to being back in big trouble.
It also reminds me the dangers of depression and isolation.
And finally, MJ fans, I have to say, as far as I know Adam wasn’t inappropriate with small children. He wasn’t rearranging his face or dangling babies off balconies… As far as I can tell this was a guy who was a really good friend to people and played some music. Don’t fault him because he was in high demand at places and parties most of us couldn’t go to.. That’s just petty.
You don’t have to go and cry about the guy. But hopefully, just from a human perspective you can see that the story has merit. He was well liked and this caught a lot of people off guard.
My thoughts exactly. Thanks for your post.
if you ever took a conditioning and learning class then you would know that there is no such thing as a recovered addict.
also, he seemed like a pretty private guy, so why all this media attention on him now that he’s dead? let him die as he lived – privately.
unrelated: I’m sick of this damn website’s pop-ups.
Also unrelated: I am sick of this awful heat and the horrible fires in LA! It’s getting a bit much.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
will change your life.
I just want to know what happened on the site? No new posts in forever! What’s going on?
yeah, i guess they take off on weekends.
You people are all sick.
Death is not something to be funny about. A few of the girls who write this site, actually knew Adam in real life, so would it kill you to be a little more compassionate?
Addiction is a hard topic to talk about.
Adam was a drug addict, yes, but it’s important to know that he was sober for nine years before this. He made a mistake and it cost him his life.
I’m going to bet that any of you that are asking Beet to move on, have never been addicted to anything.
Addiction runs your life, weither or not you are sober. Every second of every day is a fight to stay clean, and sometimes, people give in. That’s life.
But to push Adam under the bus as just another addict, is sick and wrong, because he was NOT just another addict. He was a recovering addict, who unfortunately went through some strange circumstances that he wasn’t strong enough to handle.
Adam did A LOT of work to help others get sober, and stay sober. He saved countless lives.
Please, don’t push him under the bus as “just another celeb O.D.” because yeah, that might of been how he died, but he was so much more than that.
“Knew him” in the sense that they went to a club, got high on E, and danced to some crappy records that this guy put on for them.
He was an addict who played other people’s music for a living. He didn’t create anything himself just hung out at clubs and did a lot of drugs.
Who knows what happened in that mad scramble to get out of the burning airplane. Only two people got out and who knows who they pushed out of the way or trampled on to do that.