October 17, 2021

"I wasn’t sleeping so I took a pretty strong sleep aid. And I had this dream that David had called me and that we’d had this conversation."

"Then later I thought, 'Did he actually call me?' And I went to my phone and he had. But I have no recollection of what that conversation was. He died a week later. It’s all so frustrating."

Said Susan Sarandon, quoted in "Susan Sarandon reveals she had a final phone call with ex-lover David Bowie a week before he died and they shared 'things that needed to be said'" (The Daily Mail).

No recollection... but things that needed to be said

Did that need to be said?

46 comments:

Joe Smith said...

I didn't know that Bowie had such terrible taste in women...learn something new every day.

gspencer said...

"but things that needed to be said"

"Yeah, my estate will be pressing you to repay that $5 million loan"

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Breaking: Just days before his death, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Grammy Hall of Fame star David Bowie told Susan Sarandon that his “most fervent wish is that I will not pose for a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame statue until a new president is installed.” Sarandon claimed to have forgotten about her ex-lovers dying wish because she feared ANTIFA might protest and tear down a statue of an English hetero white male.

Lets go Brandon! 😂

Yancey Ward said...

I am just going to call the entire story bullshit.

Fernandinande said...

"took a pretty strong sleep aid"

"I was stoned."

Bowie played an FBI agent in Twin Peaks III, and when he died during filming he was replaced with a giant coffee pot.

rehajm said...

She probably chewed him out for not being a good liberal.

I like to think he told her to fuck off.

Will Cate said...

I've never taken seriously anything Susan Sarandon has said about anything.

MadisonMan said...

"It's all so frustrating"
Well, yeah, that's what happens when you drug yourself.

Sally327 said...

I think she may have meant there was an earlier conversation where things that needed to be said were said and then the last call happened that she doesn't remember and in that call Bowie may have also said something then that needed to be said but she'll never know. Hopefully the thing he needed to say wasn't something like please don't talk to the press about you and me after I'm gone.

Nagesh said...

We speak of things that matter
With words that must be said
Can analysis be worthwhile
Is the theater really dead?

Theater is still alive. Bowie, not so much.

Laslo Spatula said...

"No recollection... but things that needed to be said. "

Me and Scarlett will be needing to have such a conversation.

So much left unspoken.

But the fucked cannot become the unfucked: sorry, ScarJo.

So maybe a decade or two; we'll see.

I am Laslo.

Krumhorn said...

She’s a bug-eyed leftie.

- Krumhorn

Mark O said...

Objection: Foundation and hearsay.

BUMBLE BEE said...

Hey, That's the same story she gave me!

LordSomber said...

Dammit, Janet.

Melatonin can give you pretty vivid dreams.
Sometimes of celebrities.
But they're just dreams.

wildswan said...

I can believe she was left thinking that "we said things that needed to be said" without remembering the words but not that she doesn't even know "what needed to be said." Drugs. Or she's just not talking about it. But then why write about part of it?

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

Susan Sarandon has incredibly saggy boobs. I was told this by a woman who worked wardrobe on Bull Durham.

I like to think Bowie told her she needed boob lift, stat.

The same woman told me that Sarandon was a total bitch.

I was not taking sleep aids at the time.

madAsHell said...

I think this is a variation on the I-dreamed-I-had-sex-with-an-alien story.

Tina Trent said...

That cunt Sarandon named her son after the guy she got out of prison using her celebrity AFTER he killed again. And said he would if she did it.

Thus, cunt.

Tina Trent said...

Jack Henry Abbott.

Want the names of his victims, or are you just not interest enough? I can put you in touch with the victims' families. They don't find this sort of astonishing ignorance amusing, Ann.

Tina Trent said...

How would you feel if it was your dear sons? This isn't a fucking joke. These are people.

Tina Trent said...

Who died, died.

Tina Trent said...

How would you feel if it was your dear sons? This isn't a fucking joke. These are people. Jesus fuck. What is the matter with you?

Tina Trent said...

That cunt Sarandon named her son after the guy she got out of prison using her celebrity AFTER he killed again. And said he would if she did it.

Thus, cunt.

Tina Trent said...

You stupid bitch. No comment on the killing innocent bystanders thing? Is it cute to you? Would you like to hear from the family?

Tina Trent said...

Some things are real. Like having someone in your family murdered, and then several celebrities get him off, and then he kills some other people from other anonymous families, and incredibly lazy bloggers bring the pain back.

Research this stuff, you stupid bitch, before you blog about it. Do you have any idea the pain your casual dillientantism causes? These are real people. Jesus wept.

Apologize.

JAORE said...

She remembers nothing... perhaps that is what needed to be said.

Seems a bit ghoulish to publicize yourself using a dead friend... but, hey, Sarandon.

gilbar said...

in that call Bowie may have also said something then that needed to be said but she'll never know.

something like?
QUIT taking barbiturates! And For GOD'S Sake,
Quit Pretending you're taking them because you 'weren't sleeping!'
???

Howard said...

Bowie probably dated Sarandon when they both were Catherine Deneuve's lover in "The Hunger". Aye charumba.

Blair said...

Joe Smith said...
I didn't know that Bowie had such terrible taste in women...


Have you heard of Angela Bowie?!

Also, he had sex with men, so Sarandon would have been a slight improvement in taste.

Tina Trent said...

So the fuck what, Howard? She got innocent bystanders killed. With premeditation stated in court.
How would you feel if it was your daughter? Would you like a gel print to remember her?

You dirtbag. I pity your children.

Tina Trent said...

I didn’t date these people. I listened to them weep over the phone because somebody remembered their family victims’ names. Go for itm Ann. You have a platforms. What if it was your son killed? Do you believe in equal justice for all? Or not.

tommyesq said...

Shorter Sarandon - "I used to be hot enough to bang David Bowie (allegedly)..."

Joe Smith said...

'Also, he had sex with men, so Sarandon would have been a slight improvement in taste.'

Doesn't matter to me, but I at least hope the guys were more handsome than SS was 'pretty.'

0_0 said...

Laslo?

Ice Nine said...

Might I suggest that you take a strong sleep aid, Tina? Like, right away...

effinayright said...

Millions of people who saw the car going over the cliff in "Thelma and Louise" hoped it was a really a documentary.

effinayright said...

Ever notice how many D List show business people impulsively need to brag that they had sex with some other greater celebrity? But not the other way around.

For example, you don't hear Mick Jagger saying, "I had sex with Susan Sarandon, and she blew my mind."

It must be really horrifying for these malignant narcissists to be on their deathbeds, realizing that the world will not only go on without them, but forget them within a few years.

gadfly said...

I wouldn't know Susan Sarandon or David Bowie if I was staring them in the face, so what do I care about a dream derived from heavy drug use?

But this is a perfect example of yet another UK Daily Mail tabloid-style tale as the paper pumps out anything and everything about the underdressed and the overhyped.

tim maguire said...

I don’t get too fussy about the politics and “private” life drama of entertainers. Susan Sarandon and Bull Durham are a good example of why.

tim maguire said...

I’ve always blamed Norman Mailer for Richard Adan’s murder. Abbott’s Wikipedia page doesn’t mention Sarandon and a bit of poking around doesn’t support the level of culpability Trent is assigning her. She’s guilty of being Hollywood fool, but no more than basically everyone in her social circle.

Jeff Gee said...

If you go to the link, you'll discover that Sarandon and Bowie reconnected a month before his death at the premiere of his musical "Lazarus," and that's where "things that needed to be said" were said, although it's possible they spoke subsequently and said more "needed words." Sarandon didn't say needed words were spoken during their last conversation. She has no idea what was said, which is the whole point of the anecdote. Sloppy headline writer at the Mail.

Iman said...

Bowie needed to be less Anthony Newley and more James Osterberg.

Aggie said...

People like Susan Sarandon are a lesson in the dangers of self-involvement, to remind all of us what normal people should be like. And let us give credit where it is due, she is not without talent as an actress.

tim in vermont said...

Now she knows how a dog must feel when his owner pats him on the head and talks to him for one last time before going someplace forever.

Bunkypotatohead said...

Susan Sarandon and Hilary Farr were both in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Hilary went on to do something useful in this world. And she still looks good.