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Surviving Doors Lose Band Name

Quite right too. ONE THING though: Pamela Courson was not Mrs James Morrison. She was not Jim's wife. He was not married, although there was one thing that could lay claim to such a thing: Patricia Kennealy's pagan wedding with him. He was not married to the smack junkie whore bitch Pamela Courson.

I try to remain calm and objective about everything in Jim's life because I was not there. I was not there and I have to accept that Jim came with incredibly good things and incredibly bad. One of the bad things was the redheaded little **** he picked up somewhere along the way that hung on like a limpet. If ever there was a case of a co-dependent relationship that was it. More than anything, even Jim's alcoholism, it was his pathetic little relationship with Pamela Courson.

One of the most convincing heroin death stories about Jimmy's death (the only thing anyone can agree on is that he didn't die the way the death certificate says) is that he took a noseful of Pamela's cocaine, which turned out to be her heroin. She hid her heroin addiction from him as he was supposedly notorious anti-heroin and then didn't tell him what he'd ingested because she thought he'd be mad at her about it. Another story is that she forced him to take it. Another is that the desperation of living with her drove him to a heroin addiction. Another is that she just outright killed him.

There isn't a good story about Pamela. There are some Doorzoids who 'ship' the two of them as some sort of tragic and doomed romance for the ages- Jim called her his cosmic mate once and made some remarks about girls in the songs that could be about any of his girls. Let us not forget he had another redhead in New York to whom he made overtures about leaving Pamela once and for all (although it should be remembered that a great many men promise such things to a great number of Other Women)

The people who know what is true and what is not true are now dead. But Jim was alive when he left for Paris with her and he was dead not long after. I'm not blaming Pamela Courson for every problem that monstrous little bastard ever had. I am blaming her for making things worse. I am blaming him for not doing what was best for himself and leaving the biyatch. I am blaming them both.

She died a few years after he did, in LA after turning tricks to feed her habit. It meant that because she claimed to be his wife, two people who'd never met him (her parents) lay claim to his fortune and rights. Jim did not think much of his parents while he was alive, but at least they fought the Coursons in the courts to get back what technically at least was theirs. He wouldn't want them to have his money, but probably rather them than two squares he never knew. Well, maybe he'd prefer the two strangers to two people he preferred dead.

But the fact remains that Pamela Courson, no matter what she said, was not his wife. Pamela Courson died Pamela Courson, not Pamela Morrison. And there may have been a reason for that. This is the BBC. They should know better.