# Now they've gone too far (Anna Nicole Smith) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-theyve-gone-too-far-anna-nicole-smith/379372 "2006-11-07T00:46:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-theyve-gone-too-far-anna-nicole-smith/379372/1 "2006-11-07T00:46:09Z")
Okay, I’m a total gossip/tabloid slut – I admit it. I have zero explanation for why an otherwise intelligent woman follows this shit – but follow it I do. Within limits. Ill-defined and completely arbitrary limits, but limits nonetheless. And one of those limits is drawn this side of Anna Nicole Smith, a very, very sad figure, who – never intelligent – is so totally drug addled at this point as to be horrifying. And who’s appearing as we speak on _Entertainment Tonight/The Insider_ with videos of her having a C-section. And her watching the video and commenting, quite incoherently, on it. Yikes. Just … yikes. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-theyve-gone-too-far-anna-nicole-smith/379372/2 "2006-11-07T00:55:45Z")
“It felt like God and Jesus was rippin’ my insides out.” (The TV in the other room is up loud – I’m not watching this.) I don’t know if I’ve got that word-for-word. Was it supposed to be funny? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-theyve-gone-too-far-anna-nicole-smith/379372/3 "2006-11-07T01:10:29Z")
I’m pretty sure it’s not supposed to be funny – I have no idea what it _is_ supposed to be. Heart-wrenching, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-theyve-gone-too-far-anna-nicole-smith/379372/4 "2006-11-07T01:38:20Z")
I came here to start a thread on this same thing. It’s on every single entertainment news show\*. At least Tom and Katie and Brad and Angelina didn’t subject us to videos of the birth. I realize that some people like to video tape births but that should be a private thing, we don’t want to see it. Even if we’re not actually seeing the baby squeeze out of her vagina it’s still not something I care to see. And I can’t stand the reporter’s comments, “she was so brave”, “she was in excriciating pain”, and she was in the “worst pain of her life”. Yeah, well millions of women go through the same thing, perhaps if she didn’t have such a high drug tolerance the epidural would have worked, and she did have another kid before. If she’s trying to make herself look more sympathetic over her son’s death, it’s not working. She’s just becoming more annoying and looking more like a wasted brain-damaged drug addict. \*Yeah, I watch those shows for the rare occasions when they may actually talk about a movie, TV show or star I actually don’t mind hearing about. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-theyve-gone-too-far-anna-nicole-smith/379372/5 "2006-11-07T01:45:13Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] If she’s trying to make herself look more sympathetic over her son’s death, it’s not working. She’s just becoming more annoying and looking more like a wasted brain-damaged drug addict. [/QUOTE] I don’t think she’s doing anything – I think it’s the scuzzy lawyer guy. And I think he got all the money they paid for this. How on earth could you do that to a woman you claim to love?