I agree. I have great sympathy for Derek Draper, but I don’t understand why he has been so publicised. I doubt if there would be so much interest if his wife wasn’t known. There are lots of “ordinary “ people who have Long Covid.
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I agree..I’ve worked as a bereavement counsellor for the last 2 years . It’s obvious Kate is grieving - for the loss of the Derek as he used to be . She made the decision to make the programme for her own reasons and I respect that and I can see how in some ways it was helping her to process her thoughts and her grief . I agree it may not be what Derek or his family would have wanted but the situation is unprecedented. If Derek recovers sufficiently and I sincerely hope that he does then he and Kate would have to deal with the fallout together .
KG is an attention-seeker. Do you not remember she had to have sex with her husband 2 or 3 times a day for a month for some article or other?
I guess if you fancy your husband to bits and he's a bloody good shag and - most importantly - you get a month's pay to do it, then that's a pretty easy way of earning a few quid.
Anyway, you could always lie
Derek is a man of a certain age, and even pre-Covid, would he be able to get in the mood 2 - 3 times a day? No offence intended to any men in his age bracket.
Yes, the coverage is utterly bizarre in places. It's like every thought or conversation has to have its own story.
In the last couple of days I've seen stories about:
- An unnamed friend who apparently told Kate to leave him
- Kate's fears over being a carer
- We might not know the prognosis for a year
- Generic 'he's a fighter' type story
- Usual 'vile trolls' story because some people said negative things about the documentary
- Story about how her children are coping
The last time I think we had this kind of detail about an illness was when Jade Goody was dying and the press just lost their mind with constant stories about every minute detail about her life.
I remember. We got a blow-by-blow account of her death, basically. IRRC she allowed the intrusion as a means of making money for her boys but I felt sick by it all. Found it very groteqeuse and the beginning of reality TV getting really out of control when it came to having no limits whatsoever and screw basic decency.
I've never understood the whole "misery lit" thing though. When books like A Child Called It fly off the shelves I'm just there scratching my head. Aside from maybe other abuse victims, why would anyone want to consume such distressing material?
I haven't read past this post yet because I want tea on Conor Oberst! I loved bright eyes until I'm wide awake it's morning, which I hated, then I paid no mind to him for years and missed all that rape allegation stuff. He does seem to have been totally exonerated in a way which rarely happens. I met him briefly many years ago and he was small and polite.
No tea but that situation was just horrific for him. The rumours really stuck for years and dogged him when the woman was an extremely mentally ill fantasist.
He seems to have handled it very gracefully, must have been awful for everyone concerned.
Very pleased to hear that, onwards and upwards!!!
Ahh thanks I'm doing good it's what they like to term watch and wait. So I'm just staying positive thanks to tattle life once you join your in for life haha
In those days, there weren't as many forums to discuss things like that, and in real life people blew up at me whenever I mentioned it was distasteful. I wasn't so much bothered by her selling her story. Sell as many wedding pictures as you like. But I remember there were photos of her crying children and some really deeply personal things about the boys printed which shocked me. I am glad they've kept the boys out of the spotlight since then and I hope they can go on to have a happy life.
I don’t mind at all.
I couldn‘t find a thread on her. 
Misery memoirs, oh gosh 20 years ago everyone was writing about their miserable childhoods. I read A Child Called It and I’m afraid that was enough for me. I didn’t bother with the rest, too depressing.
Mourn porn
I think some sick bastards get their kicks from it. They may not be actual abusers but they definitely get their jollies from this crap.
It’s just clickbait isn’t it? The DM are in their element.
I'm under the impression Derek is in the state he's in because of the treatment they gave him. Being in intensive care and put on a ventilator is a very invasive process and the intervention itself is what gives the poor outcome.
Ibwas under the impression that he was treated this way because it was the early days of the pandemic and we knew little of covid at the time. If he was hospitalised now he wouldn't be given the same treatment.
I might be wrong of course but I don't believe he's suffering from long covid, so this documentary can't be to raise awareness.
Ibwas under the impression that he was treated this way because it was the early days of the pandemic and we knew little of covid at the time. If he was hospitalised now he wouldn't be given the same treatment.
I might be wrong of course but I don't believe he's suffering from long covid, so this documentary can't be to raise awareness.
The song I posted was almost certainly about that incident, at least partly. There was also another song from that album (the album is "Ruminations") called "Tachycardia", the first verse of which seems to deal with that allegation too.
He definitely had a rough few years, given that stuff, then having a (benign) cyst on his brain which put him in hospital (this is also referenced on that album) and then his brother died and he got divorced.
In terms of tea, I have nothing close to first hand, but he is pretty widely rumoured to be currently dating Phoebe Bridgers.
DM, Mirror and Sun are the worst offenders, but it has been on BBC news etc too.
Mirror alone has SIX stories about him on their frontpage right now.
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