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Michelle Rodriguez Says Young Stars Dying Is ‘Not Normal’
Michelle Rodriguez is sharing her reaction to the news of Hayden Panettiere’s death, as well as the deaths of other young celebrities.
“I’ve got to tell you, man, I just can’t stand how many young people are leaving us lately,” Rodriguez, 48, told Variety on Monday, August 17, at a 25th anniversary screening of The Fast and the Furious in Los Angeles. “It’s disheartening, and it’s making me think, ‘What’s going on?’ It’s not normal.”
“I don’t want to speculate about anything, but it’s weird,” she added. “Just in general, the amount and the volume of it since 2010 to now, it’s a lot.”
The actress cohosted the World Music Awards alongside Panettiere back in 2010 and said she most remembered the Nashville and Heroes alum’s “curious spirit and how happy and joyous she is, because that’s her memory, right?”
Hollywood is mourning the tragic loss of Hayden Panettiere at age 36. The Heroes and Nashville alum’s representative confirmed to Us on Sunday, August 16, that the actress had died. Details surrounding Panettiere’s death were not immediately available. “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden,” Panettiere’s father, […]
Panettiere died on Sunday, August 16, in Greenville, South Carolina. She was 36.
“It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the millions who watched her onscreen,” her father, Skip Panettiere, said in a statement to Us on Sunday.
The actress’ death was preceded by the death of her Ice Princess costar Michelle Trachtenberg in February 2005, who died from diabetes-related complications at age 39. Earlier this year, Hollywood also mourned the death of The Ring actress Daveigh Chase, who died of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in June.
Rodriguez, too, has been affected by the death of a former costar gone too soon. Her Fast & Furious costar Paul Walker died in a car crash in November 2013 at age 40.
“I actually went on a bit of a binge,” she said of the time after Walker’s death in a 2015 interview with Entertainment Weekly. “I went pretty crazy. A lot of the stuff I did last year I would never do had I been in my right mind.”
“I could see Paul once every two years and just know there was another human on the planet who’s deep like me, who loves like that,” Rodriguez continued. “When that disappears, you wonder, ‘Wait a minute, what do I hold on to?’ There was nothing to tether me to this existence: ‘Why am I f***ing here? And, like, why’d you leave without me?’”
“I have to say, you know, when I lost Paul, I went through about a year of just being an animal,” Rodriguez later said in the controversial 2016 documentary The Reality of Truth, which is about the effects of psychedelics like ayahuasca. “Like, what could I do, physically, to just get my mind off of existentialism? Get my mind off of how transient life is and how we come here and can just disappear at any moment. How could I get my mind off that? I did everything I could possibly do to hide from myself, and I’ll tell you that my ayahuasca trip made me sad that he left me here. It wasn’t a sadness that he’s gone, it’s more like a jealousy that he’s there first.”
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