![]() ![]() “She was fun and outspoken and uninhibited,” she says. I made it.”Ĭaserta, who is serving as a consultant on a planned Joplin biopic starring Michelle Williams, understands Joplin’s ongoing allure, whether or not Joplin was gay (Caserta says she wasn’t but rather bisexual). “After all I’ve been through? But I’m alive and pretty happy. ![]() But I lost control because I was strung out and making awful decisions.” Caserta wound up dealing drugs, being talked into helping busted Americans break out of a Mexican jail and going to jail herself before cleaning up in 1980-and then enduring the wrath of Hurricane Katrina after she moved back to her native South to care for her aging mother. “I would never talk like that about our close association. “I didn’t write that smut about Janis,” she says. Caserta insists she had no say in the book and that her co-writer penned it without her input. I Ran into Some Trouble is also meant to serve as a corrective to Going Down with Janis, the often lurid chronicle of her life with Joplin (the two slept and got high together) published in 1973. “The idea that it was so much stronger–there’s no gold standard,” she says. Caserta insists that outcome is more likely than an OD from a particularly fatal crop of heroin that Joplin had taken and which Caserta herself used that night at another location. I let it go for years, but I always thought, ‘Something is wrong here.’”Īs laid out in her new memoir, I Ran into Some Trouble (Wyatt-MacKenzie), co-written with Maggie Falcon, Caserta believes the “tiny hourglass heel” on Joplin’s shoe was caught in the room’s shag carpet, causing her to trip, break her nose on a nightstand and die of asphyxiation when blood backed up in her throat. How could she have overdosed and then walked out to the lobby and walked back ? I’ve overdosed, and you crumble on the floor like how they found Philip Seymour Hoffman. “She was lying with cigarettes in one hand and change in the other. “I saw her foot sticking out at the end of the bed,” Caserta recalls. ![]() But one image haunted her close friend Peggy Caserta, who arrived at Joplin’s room after police were already on the scene: Joplin’s high-heeled sandal. When Janis Joplin was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room in 1970, the announced cause of death was-and remains–a heroin overdose. ![]()
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