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Savitch's flawed delivery fueled speculation that she was using drugs, specifically cocaine. However, she blamed the problems on a teleprompter malfunction, while her agent said it was due to the effects of pain medication which she was taking in response to recent facial reconstructive surgery which she underwent following a boating accident.
"The assumption from everybody in the business was that her drug and alcohol problems were connected," Ellerbee says. At the office, a colleague reportedly made a tasteless joke. "Bad news," they...
Nash says she traced the cocaine usage to Savitch’s fledgling TV news days in Houston. “She got so weirded out on cocaine, her addiction was in full (swing),” Nash said. “By 1980, she was ...
end of Savitch's life, says Blair, she was a daily user of cocaine. Though Blair says she sympathizes with the distress of the Savitch family ("Finding out someone you love has had a tormented...
Off the air she was ruled by tantrums, suicide attempts, and drug use. Her colleagues despised her insistence on a limo and a hairdresser and felt her reporting lacked substance.
Savitch suffered from health problems throughout her life and was hospitalized several times for drug use and suicide attempts. She reportedly had anorexia and had several pregnancies that ended...
And to those who claimed to know her best, she was a vivacious and vulnerable woman who became so debilitated by insecurity and drug abuse that she could barely function without a nursemaid.
