I tend to agree but going through the news stories I notice something odd, they all refer to his battle with cancer but they don’t say he died “of cancer” but “after nine year battle with cancer” or “had been secretly battling cancer”.
Norm wasn’t a mega-celebrity, the type the tabloids go after for every speck of dirt and payoff ppl to get gory details. He was also widely loved and respected so I could almost believe if it was suicide ppl would protect Norm from the salacious reporting.
If it was suicide the cause of death was still cancer. He wasn’t a healthy guy who offed himself because he was depressed He had a terminal, painful disease and might have decided to end his suffering rather than enduring a few more painful weeks of torture and degradation.
Idk, it’s interesting that Andy heard he blew his brains out. Andy is a pariah now due to his antics and decades of drug addiction, but even so he stills hears gossip on the grapevine. Could just be idle gossip. I could believe many comedians prefer the idea of Norm taking matters into his own hands than the idea of slow suffering in his final days.
The fact that Norm was sick for the past nine years was a well guarded secret so I could see the same veil of secrecy around his death - and drunk, coked out Andy Dick running his mouth.
Andy was always like this, it’s not just a recent thing due to his career being in the dumper. He was sort of beloved for never putting on a celebrity facade or veneer of respectability when he was famous. There’s audio from the 1990’s or early 00 of him drunk and high out of his gourd calling live into the Howard Stern show as he’s riding around LA, still up at 4 or 5 am while it’s the 8 am morning commute on the east coast. He blabs openly about all the drugs he’s on, what celebrities he was partying with, degenerate shit, etc…. There’s a reason he seemed to hang with every hard party type in LA for two decades. I mean Andy Dick and Marylin Manson?!? I think every celebrity who developed a huge coke habit became Andy’s buddy until they cleaned up. The pet retard of the rich coke heads of LA. No doubt he’s entertaining to have around while you’re on a two day coke binge.
I mean he gave a house tour of the shed his wife made him live in behind the house. His lack of pretense, sense of humor and plain don’t give a fuck makes him endearing.