TMZ Presents Prince Fatal Secrets (2022) Poster

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Prince
BandSAboutMovies31 December 2023
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This TMZ documentary is directed by David Thies and tells what happened to Prince on April 21, 2016 as he died from a drug overdose. He had been dealing with the flu but may have overdosed another time a week before.

His loss was a major shift to the world, a loss that I never thought would happen. Prince always just was a force in my life since I was young and always someone that I knew would be releasing music and making contributions to culture. His loss changed the world for me.

What I didn't like about this documentary is how they sensationalized his drug use. He was in pain most of his life from performing. Aren't rock stars supposed to do drugs? No one at TMZ has ever had an addiction? It all comes off as very wrong to me.

I think it's so weird that the pills that ended Prince's life came from Walgreens. It seems so normal and generic and not a rock and roll thing. I guess it proves that anyone can have an addiction and it can be something as simple as you pick up at your pharmacy.

When I was young, Prince - unlike every other performer - scared people. Who was this small black man singing in a high pitch and combining sex and religion? I loved his edge and how he seemed to cultivate a secret world around himself. I wish he was still here.
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1/10
Sensationalized, contains some outright lies.
wandanet9 October 2022
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There's a button for "Already watched" and one for "Want to watch". They should add a third button "Sorry I watched". This "documentary" was exaggerated, sensationalized. Outright lies including the statement that Jehovah's Witnesses "don't believe in surgery" and so surgery was against his beliefs. Then the insinuation that he may have had the surgery anyways (so what?), that he was struggling with his religious principles. Conflicting information such as Prince suffering from severe dehydration but TMZ already had their spin on it. Although it's possible he was murdered (why would anyone take something deliberately knowing it was laced with Fentanyl?) How can you maintain that he had a "Secret" opioid addiction and was living a double life? And show a bottle of acetaminophen to make it look like he had many other pills in his possession? SO disappointed, TMZ.
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