Hopefully you have room in your heart for sick people who did the right things in life, were kind, generous, forging.... but still had or has to suffer crappy illness. Best way to avoid addiction? Just never start. So few people have long lives when they choose heroin as BFF.
Amy Lynn Hunt ALL of us will go through pain and suffering at some point in our lives...we wouldn't be human if we didn't. I know FIRSTHAND the horrors of addiction, and I agree with you 100% that the BEST defense would be to NEVER touch the stuff at all! I wish she had more time to get herself together...I wish that ALL who succumbed from drugs had more time to straighten their lives out, but no matter how much time they may have been given, it never would have mattered if they didn't TRULY DESIRE to get clean and STAY clean. Their deaths, still serves a purpose, however... it is a constant reminder that I could end up dead just like them! Our "desires" FEED our "will"...
I am not worthy to be thanked at all! It is ALL from our Higher Power. I am VERY proud of you! I hope that you are proud of YOURSELF! May God continue to bless you with success! Peace!
So sad....she was just looking for someone to love her and at the end the only one who was there by her side was he mom...the love she always wanted...
@@taciturnorb shes 22 yet she acts like your typical young women on drugs in Hollywood though . Damn shame and those guys did nothing to steer her in the right direction. Those pricks
her influence in the modeling world is still evident today. what we see as that edgy, smoldering, and weird side of high fashion was due to her influence though they may not know it.
The part that breaks my heart is when she says, "I'm still in shape, everybody. I'm still alive." Then her words seem to drift off. RIP, beautiful broken soul.
When I discovered Gia at 10 years old I immediately fell in love. I did a research project on her in High School. I didn’t have many queer role models and Gia was openly interested in women from the age of 13. I once had a girlfriend named Hilary who was also obsessed with Gia. We both found her grave in bucks county back in 2008 and left yellow roses (Gia’s favorite) Gia also became an addict and so did I. Now I’m almost 10 years sober off drugs and alcohol and in school for film. As a filmmaker and a queer sober person, through my creativity and work in the recovery community I hope to honor her and Hilary’s memory (unfortunately, she passed at age 37 in Dec 2021)
@@tatiyanaperez5888 I think you meant "Queer" not "Queen". Yes, Queer. I am sending you love and light. i hope you can learn to accept others as I accept you.
@@HowlinWolfMoon I accept people just fine. I'll be honest, I don't have a problem with being gay, it's when the person doesn't know who they are and go back n forth, today I'm a girl tomorrow a guy. Or I'm neither nor, I want to be labeled as they or them. That....is where it gets ridiculous!
For some reason , even in her condition, I find her far more relatable, appealing and real than any supermodel I have ever seen. Im sorry all that happened to you. Rest in Peace.
Gia is an example of someone who lacked strong family ties and Emotional Intelligence....but, it was not her fault. Dysfunctional Families produce Lost Souls. The world is a complicated place...and the pressure of her world and the life style of the 80's, DESTROYED many a good men and women....So Sad.
It’s so crazy how other people in the industry knew about her drug addiction but didn’t try to help her and wrote her off to save their own own career...
Sooo many people commenting about helping an addict. Only because of her pretty face and celebrity status. Im willing to bet you never helped an addict on the street. Addiction is something the general public doesn't understand or want to understand. Recovery is only successful when the addict wants it and does the hard work ALONE . YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG AND ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR ACTIONS AND WORK AT IT . nobody should help you thats enabeling . Us addicts are master manipulators. I am in recovery 18 yrs its possible to recover.
I've been sober off drugs and alcohol for over 4 years but I struggled for many years. I was in and out of jail and rehab for over 6 years, and the only thing I can tell you is that no one can stop an addict until they want to quit on their own. Sadly, many addicts don't get sober until things get really bad or they end up like Gia. I've lost so many people to this disease, and the Fentanyl just makes it 100x times worse with overdose deaths. It is a real epidemic that not many people talk about and it's very sad.
@@raquellambropoulos279haha I never understood that. We're "master manipulators." I got news for you y'all are not that smart or clever😢😢 . If people want to be soft and let their heartstrings be played with that's their fault. But you guys act like y'all R masterminds or something.😂🤦 You could never pull that b.s. on me.. I'd reality check you right there. Haha "Master manipulators."😂 You're delusional...🤦
I met Gia a few times back in the late 70's, Nothing serious though. She was even prettier in person, some days she would hang around in the Art studios I would have coffee at. Some days she would be very nice and bubbly, other days she wouldn't be very nice at all and scream at people, then storm out of the building and disappear for hours, sometimes days. I didn't even know she died until 1990! She was everywhere it seemed, then one day...just nothing. like she never even existed. Sad.
@@sunnyd2221 Woah, what?? Now I'm confused and would greatly appreciate it if you would please explain what you're talking about? I'm not being sarcastic at all either. :(
Rachel Christensen -- It's just one of those outlandish conspiracy theories. Its not even worth giving any credence towards. Gia's life went precisely as is commonly believed. She made it big and then disappeared from the scene as her psychological issues pushed her towards heroin to numb the emotional pain. The heroin addiction and mental illness she suffered from had a great toll on her. She sadly caught HIV as a result of injecting heroin with a needle that was already used by someone else and that person that used it had HIV. With the help of a group of recovering heroin addicts that she met in rehab, she managed to get clean and quit heroin but then found out she had HIV. Nobody, not even family, wanted to take her in and she was treated like she had leprosy. This was because HIV was not truly understood in the 80's so some thought you could catch it by just being near them. Friends from rehab gave her a safe place to stay and took great care of her until her sickness got the point where she had to be hospitalized. She lived her remaining short time on earth in hospital with regular visits from her family and rehab friends who she said herself were the only true friends in life that she had known.
So sad, she looks in total agony, at that stage where drugs are not fun at all anymore but you've got to keep taking them just to feel "normal". RIP Gia :-(
AnnaPxx Exactly right. Withdrawing from drugs is the worst pain ever. It hurts physically and emotionally. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. I don’t miss it at all. 🙏🏼
@@frankstared screw that noise. Honestly fuck heroin. For the love of anything that's holy, stay the fuck away from heroin. Listen to people's judgements, that's basic common sense
She was in rehab during this interview and if you listen she says she's all shakey and crazy because the doctors said her nerves where dead but that as soon as her growing pains end she would be fine. She was in pain. Withdrawal pains.
Agree 💯 she seems really fascinating definitely a rebel definitely had a lot to say I'd have loved to have kicked it with her just for a day mind you she was before my time but something about her seems so cool and effortless like she's not even trying
I’ve known about Gia and followed anything and everything about her for so many years because of how close I felt to her story. I too am a heroin addict who just went through withdrawals and got clean. I’m 26 years old. I keep thinking about how I’m the same age she was when she died. If I hadn’t stopped now or don’t maintain my sobriety, that too could be my destiny. I’ll always admire this woman. So precious and gone far too soon.
@@ariawashburn6043it's supposed to mean that she is still detoxing/getting the drugs out of her system...but she's clearly lying cause it's obvious that she's on drugs here.
I think Gia is her most beautiful when she's like this, being herself and not wearing hair and make up and big glitzy gowns. She really has this androgynous attraction about her. Very tomboyish but very feminine. I can see why everybody was attracted to her.
I think it was her past that got her into drugs. Her mom left the family when she was very young, and she probably turned to drugs to cope. I personally don't judge her; I just wish that she could of been saved.
Judging by the autobiographical movie of her life, her mother seems like a narcissist. Children of narcissists carry enormous trauma that can be complex, and difficult to even verbalize. On the one hand, they learned to mirror and copy the narcissism in order to survive… but on the other hand they were abused by it. Often times children of narcissists end up having Borderline PD- many have strong traits of narcissism themselves which as I stated was a coping mechanism- although it doesn’t excuse the abusive nature of it. I feel like modeling was the perfect storm for this all to manifest in the worst way for her, and then she understandably turned to addiction to cope and comfort herself. Overall a very sad story, but important to remember that this is happening to countless people across the world who nobody knows about.
I'm a child of a narcissist. I empathize. I had a bad addiction to the strongest Rx opiates for yrs. I'm alive by the grace of God. It was different twenty years ago before they started cutting street drugs with other lethal stuff.☹️
I've got such a crush on her, I'm so sorry she felt so alone in a sea of people. Wish she didn't have to suffer the way she did, I'm currently reading ' Thing of Beauty' and it's letting me get to know her a lot more. I feel that apart from her beauty there was so much more to her, what a fascinating person
Her one sided smile! Gosh! 22 years old and look at that Swagger. Despite the fact that she's probably high on this interview, she's just cool. The way she said "motherfuckers", it had a crunch. I find that a little funny, But..... she's just another victim of an abusive broken home. Some children grows up and makes it but some runs out of luck. Rest In Peace, Gorgeous Androgynous Woman.
muffin6369 Really? hahahahahahahahaha!!!! Excuse me but how many actual butches in real life can pull off a dress and high heels? How many actual butches in real life can put on makeup and look elegantly high fashion? She had the vibe of a cute young boy because of her MANNERISMS but Gia's face, hair,and body wasn't MANLY.
She contracted AIDS from sharing needles, not being bisexual. I swear, people know nothing but just announce it like it is fact. Gia was one of the first women in the public eye to die due to."complications stemming from AIDS", there was no help then and her death was awful. Doctors and nurses wore "space suits" when they actually deigned to check on her in the crappy state-run (IIRC) hospital.
Amy Lynn Hunt I know she probably contracted AIDS from needles. There's no argument here honey. In the 70's, people weren't aware of what can happen with sharing the drug paraphernalia. I read Stephen Fried's book. Plus, she is not bisexual. She identified as gay. Sure, she probably had sex with men for money when she got so desperate to get another fix or had been sexually taken advantage of unconsciously when she was in the shooting galleries but her heart was exclusively for women.
Gia is beautiful with or without makeup. Look at her features, she was born to be a model. My heart aches when I reflect on her story, she deserved to live, thrive and was entitled to a life. Yes, my heart actually hurts when I reflect on her life and death.
She has a cool personality. I read a book about her, and I never thought about fashion when reading it - somehow I picked the book up in the 11th grade, and kept going; it spoke of her lesbian-isms and illnesses most vividly, how the flesh fell from her back; her death and so on. I had no mirage, no preconception, nor even a mention of her ever in my life. I just liked the book and Gia. I can't forget that. I think this video reminds me most of what the book said.
It's not easy to help an addict once they're in deep enough. Sometimes it's actually impossible depending on how stubborn or self-destructive the user is.
That poor girl. I absolutely believe, and psychology backs this up, that key childhood relationships, primarily with the mother and father, and other significant biological adults either builds up or tears down the child's self esteem. If it's in the negative, it will impact the entire adult life.
I hope you found the peace you sought for so long Gia, being wild and having pain inside yourself could be very hard to deal with especially in a world where so many people would not hesitate in tearing into pieces. RIP
It's strange to think that 32 years ago today was Gia's last day on this planet. 32 years... Where the hell does time go? I was born a few months before her, and I can remember just how confusing that time was. The 70's were bizarre to say the least. I also worked in what I suppose you could call an 'unreal' industry at exactly the same time as she was modelling, and I know just how easy it was to be seduced by things that one should have steered clear of. I became a drunk, I was never rich enough to be an alcoholic. With Gia it was drugs and a dirty needle. With me it was a wake up call at about the same time as she was breathing her last. So I lived and she died. Who decides which way the coin lands? Gia fascinates me though and I don't know why. I wish that I could have met her and influenced her, but that's romantic nonsense because at the time I would have probably been just as off my face as she was. They were strange days indeed! I hope that if there is an afterlife that she's found peace, and even though I never did meet her I always hold a small part of her in my heart. No one, no matter how haunted by demons they are deserves to die so young and in such a hideous way, especially when they have the world at their feet. RIP Gia. You are missed.x
Time simply inevitably passes and then is trapped forever in a place to be viewed whenever we want. UA-cam is the closest thing we will ever get to a time machine.
I just watched this video for the first time. The similarity between her and another all time beauty, Edie Sedgwick are unbelievable. Both from messed up families, both turned to drugs to cope, both otherworldly beautiful. Both deceased by age 28. Such tragedies. R.I.P. ladies
If this was filmed in 82, then it was when she was desperately trying to make a come back in modeling. By 1980 her career was in steep decline and by 1981 she moved back to Philadelphia to live with her mother. Her come back never materialized because as you can see here, she was still heavily into drugs. Sadly by 83/84 she was flat broke and began working odd jobs in clothing stores, as a checkout clerk and even worked in the cafeteria of a nursing home. Despite various attempts to quit drugs during this time, they all failed. In June 1986 she was diagnosed with AIDS and by November of that same year had passed away of AIDS-related complications. She was only 26 years old.
+berjaboy thanks for that recap. i actually didn't know a lot of that stuff. i watched the GIA movie a long time ago and had completely forgotten about the details
Wow. Lots of interesting details I wouldn't have guessed. Her drug counselor believed she really had bipolar disorder. There was some questions as to whether her father molested her (in a documentary on her life). She was also described as being "a greedy bitch" when it came to taking heroin, and other junkies were surprised at how much she'd take - no doubt, might have been self medicating. Her girlfriend, Sandy Linter, claimed that she didn't like her beauty and she was said to have thought modeling to be bull shit (coudn't have helped being gay/non-feminine especially during this era). An above post said that she liked to wear men's clothes and no make up . Some described her as almost being like a brooding James Dean and with a lot of presence.
Today, in 1986, God called your name, you suffered a great deal, but He released you from it all. I know you can't hear me beloved Gia, but I want you to know that are not forgotten, and you were loved, you had a gift, had you been around caring, loving people that meant you well, they would have showed you how to properly use it. I had never seen any model in model history that possessed your raw, and exotic beauty, your fierceness, and just being natural. Rest well Gia, we love you still.,,❤️
I used to think he said "Come close again" at 1:37, but now I think he actually said, "Take your clothes off again" which would explain Gia's reaction and asking him if he's a voyeur. . . It was a legitimately shady comment from this dude that I think she handled pretty well considering everything she was going through. Whether she was high during this filming or not, I think she still maintains a keen sense of humor and awareness of herself.
Gia was GORGEOUS. I don’t knock her for the road she went down- I feel horrible for her. I’m sober myself I know the struggle. It’s so sad seeing someone as stunning as Gia sad and hiding behind the demons of drugs. I hope she knows how she’s looked still even today 2022 and I hope she is resting in sweet peace. 🙏🏻💖
Wow she looks like an aggressive femme (gay lingo) in this interview. I couldn't see it in the movie since Angelina is so gorgeous but yes in her interviews I can see she was going through some things. It's so sad. She was 26 years YOUNG. Addicts eventually die from what they self medicate with. My dad, rest his soul, is an example of what can happen. RIP Gia and RIP daddy.
gia was one of the most beautiful women i have ever seen.i met her in the carribbean in. the early eighties. she had just finished a shoot at the SUGARbird resort and she and several model friends went sailing with me aboard my yacht CALLISTO. WE SAILED ALL AFTERNOON AND SHE sat on deck next to me the entire time i was steering my course.she was breathtakingly BEAUTIFUL AND SO very intelligent the entire cruise. i was smitten and told her so .i stayed with her for several days. oil never forget how wonderful she was .... .. .
I used to be a heroin and crack addict, it is not a choice, I didn't one day wake up and decide to fuck up my life! Its hard to explain it to people who haven't actually been there but once the drug has you it controls you and you are not you anymore.this was tradgic that this had to happen to such a beautiful young girl. May she rest in peace, and anyone who says otherwise should be ashamed of their narrow mindedness!!!! You really have no idea how hard things were for her. Poor poor girl.
If it is not a conscience decision that you made (choice) how than did you realize it was bad and how or why did you make a conscience decision to stop. Please help me understand. I know when I was drinking. I made a choice if i wanted to pick up the bottle or not to. One day I prayed and asked God to help me stop and God answered my prayers and literally the next day I stopped. I find a lot of times us humans never want to take responsibility for our own actions and choices we make in life. We like to play victim. When we try sin for the first time we never think we will become slaves to it, but we do. Saying you had no choice is a cop out.
Nai Daviis you just have to get sick of it. I know when i got sober my life was terrible, i was on the verge of death prostituting and living an ugly ugly dark life and i had had enough, if someone doesnt want to change they wont. some people cant ever change and unfortunatley Gia couldnt get it. its very sad but she was a sad sad girl and couldnt break free so now she is finally free.
I had to stop it was either that or die if I didnt have a family that cared I doubt I would have stopped, I coukdnt do it to them anymore, I was getting beat up by dealers all the time, I overdosed a few times. And its not a simple as choosing to stop its hard I didnt just make the descision to stop and then I stopped, I still fight the urge to use drygs every day and probabky will for the rest of my life. When I first went into drugs I was very uneducated on their effect and what they could do to a person. So yes I had a choice but I didnt know what I was getting themselves into. If you find co fort in god thats good for you but I personally think thats a load of shit, there is no god if there was the terrible things in the world wouldnt happen, if you we able to just wake up one day and easily stop drinking then im sorry but you were not addicted. The way you talk shows you have no clue about addiction what so ever Nai, if you spent a year or more truely addicted to drugs or alcohol then you would understand everything im saying. I take responsibility for my actions, I was an idiot to ever get into all that but if it was as easy as to ask god for help and stop the next day do you really think the world would have addiction problems like it does? Congratulations on staying clean/sober alora danon, I know how hard it is, getting clean is easy I think but staying clean is hell.
Jesus, i want give her a hug so bad, this poor girl just want to be loved and peoples in industry used her. Such a gay icon, i hope she is in a better place rigth now
It's sad that the industry ate her up and used her like they did. She really needed help, and nobody seemed to care, I remember seeing her on cosmopolitan and back then not knowing her story, thinking how beautiful she was and to watch her story and realize how lonely and broken she was just made it so tragic.. drugs were like candy, so easy to get for her, so easy to escape.. I can't see how you could have any kind of normal in that kind of world 😕
I feel like she was such a fun, sweet, good person who just struggled to find her true way in life. I hope she finally found peace and knows how special she really was!
You get that from one clip where she's high? She wasn't very bright, and her looks were all she had going for her. The realisation of that is likely what drove her to use. She was never going to have a real job or career like Scavullo did. She also "acted" very working class even though her family had money, and carried a knife in her pocket (to harm or threaten people?). It's funny how she hated modelling cause of how fake it all was, but her whole persona was inauthentic. She puts on a completely different voice in that TV interview, I assume that was her real voice and this "tough chick" voice is fake. There are so many addicts on the street who people wouldn't even look at. They probably make fun of the "crazy crack heads" they encounter, but you have sympathy for Gia just cause she was attractive. That's really sad.
We are all entitled to our opinions, but some of these are pretty harsh judgements. I think Gia was so beautiful. She also had instability in her early life, and then shot to worldwide fame when she was still just a teenager. That's a lot to deal with. We all have our issues, and we don't always choose the best ways to deal with difficult feelings - hopelessness, fear, anxiety, depression - some of us turn to drugs. Why are celebrities expected to be any different? They're not invincible - they're human beings. I'm sure had Gia lived past 26 (because that is still so young) she would have continued to mature, grow, and learn to deal with her issues. She never had that chance. I'm not judging her at all. I'm 29, and still figuring myself out.
Personally, people are either be too harsh or too soft, on one hand people are acting like she's scum for being a junkie and that it makes her less human, on the other hand, people are acting like its everybody else's fault she's a junkie and that it's they're duty to drop everything to help her.
The problem with addiction is that it could be avoided if it was never started. Not everyone has an addictive personality, but one should know oneself and live to take care of oneself. People have worse problems and never get into deep trouble as this young girl did. It should be a lesson to others. And....don't blame everyone else for your problems but look inside and use your head!!!!!
Dont know much about her story I'm curious to know it even though I'm behind on the info gotta admit your very beautiful woman yourself grochellepalomino hope you dont take it the wrong way just saying the truth to you
Gia is an example that you need to help people when you see something wrong, or if they struggle. Her agents just cared about how hard she worked and looking beautiful. It seems she could easily have been saved if someone did something earlier on. Gia had so much life ahead and the people who didnt help her, killed her...she felt alone, and had so much on her plan..she was so young..she just needed an extra hand like she wanted..she did try give signs. She wasnt completely gone..she knew. Gia will always be an example that if you cant help that person, than try get someone to help your friend..you cant just leave me...if everyon never helped anyone..the world be fucked up. Dont give up.
Gia went to Abraham Lincoln High School in Philadelphia in the mid 70's. She was about 6 months older than me. I went to school with her, as did about 4000 other students. We just called the school Lincoln. At that time the schools were loaded with what we called "Bowie Freaks." A lot of the girls tried to emulate David Bowie's, at that time, androgynous look. Lincoln High School had "Ramps," rather than steps in the main hall. Everyone hung out at the ramps and used them to change classes. It was impossible to have gone to LHS at that time and not have passed Gia. I'd be willing to bet that most never even realized the connection.
I started Lincoln in 78 so I just missed her. I believe my freshman class brought the 4000 up to 6000. It was a coincidence that I ended up being a magazine fashion photographer. Although I worked with her agencies, I never worked with her. Her short career ended as mine was taking off in Philly with a year overlap. I remember the Bowie girls. Lincoln was razed a few years ago because it was just too big and old. The ramps were there because the school could be turned into an emergency hospital if there ever was a catastrophe. We used to grow weed in the school's greenhouse but that's another story.
@@mesapysch We no doubt passed each other in the halls, on the ramps, or in the lunchroom. I lived around Vogt Playground back in the day. If you don't know where that's at, think Frankford and Knoor. I
Taken from the book about Gias life almost word for word. Don't you worry about plagurism? I read the book so many times that I too can recite it . I grew up in the 80s and in Chicago but i could recite the book as well and pretend I was from Lincoln lol . Whatever is missing from your life, to make you feel so small that you have to invent this idea of being there i hope it helps.
@@raquellambropoulos279 You must really be an idiot. Every "celebrity" you see went to some school. Obviously other people went to those schools too. Gia went to Lincoln High School at the same time as about 4000 of us. Are you so small minded that you have nothing better to do than inject your ignorance into something that you know nothing about. What was "missing" from my "life" was an idiot, but now you answered my prayers and filled that roll. I seriously doubt that you could "read" any book with words having more than 3 letters each. "Whatever is missing from your life, to make you feel so small that you have to" inject yourself "into something to feel this idea of "someone caring what your small mind thinks, " i hope it helps." I really don't care what you think and I highly doubt that you can actually read and formulate a response to anything.
I remember her covers from the late 70’s and early 80’s ... and then she was gone😣 . . . We didn’t know anything about AIDS back then. It took Rock Hudson dying in a Paris hospital for the public to take notice😏 So tragic ... “Gia” is still Angelina’s best performance!
I Love Gia She is so Perfect! She is so Precious to this Universe and I think the world of her! She is Heavenly and a Perfect Angel! I Adore her and hold her dearly in my heart I Love her very much! Her energy is perfect and her ora is powerfully energized by light. I can see so much good in her but most of all I see her beautiful heart. A Pure Heart with lots of love and good. I am truely happy for all her Success! I will always be her Fan!
So heartbreaking... She lived fast, no one to guide her out of 'the persona' and at the end it sadly took a toll on her free-spirited life 😭 A gem 💎 of our early '90s fashion. RIP Gia. She seems a brilliant teen... Most of her quotes just show how wise she is and is still relevant advice to the newcomer of the industry
Gia is gorgeous a natural beauty....... I saw the movie Gia and she had a very depressing life......... She never chose to be an addict it chose her....... But she seems very loving and caring a good person with lots of bad luck....... Rest in peace Gia
Bless her heart and soul. Even here you can see how beautiful she truly was. You can see she was struggling here and was either coming down off of a high or having withdrawals. I feel like so many people just used her up to and left her feeling empty therefore the drugs were her constant go to friend. My heart hurts knowing what she went through, the personal emotional struggles she endured and then her subsequent death from HIV/AIDS. RIP Gia.❤️🤲🏻
Such a tragic story, a beautiful tragic story of a beautiful woman. Ever since she was a child.. She deserved better than this. I hope you're healthy and happy wherever you are Gia ❤️
@@cassondralynch6342 no, it's more about how successful you are in the industry. And she was on vogue several times.. it doesn't get bigger than that especially in the 80's.
She is absolutely BLASTED during this interview... my heart goes out to everyone struggling with addiction.
Hopefully you have room in your heart for sick people who did the right things in life, were kind, generous, forging.... but still had or has to suffer crappy illness.
Best way to avoid addiction? Just never start. So few people have long lives when they choose heroin as BFF.
Amy Lynn Hunt ALL of us will go through pain and suffering at some point in our lives...we wouldn't be human if we didn't.
I know FIRSTHAND the horrors of addiction, and I agree with you 100% that the BEST defense would be to NEVER touch the stuff at all!
I wish she had more time to get herself together...I wish that ALL who succumbed from drugs had more time to straighten their lives out, but no matter how much time they may have been given, it never would have mattered if they didn't TRULY DESIRE to get clean and STAY clean.
Their deaths, still serves a purpose, however... it is a constant reminder that I could end up dead just like them!
Our "desires" FEED our "will"...
I was a struggling addict for 15 years. I've been clean for six years. Your comment made me smile. Thank you.
I am not worthy to be thanked at all! It is ALL from our Higher Power.
I am VERY proud of you!
I hope that you are proud of YOURSELF!
May God continue to bless you with success! Peace!
+loveinspired7 how long was this before she died? RIP Gia
She was barely 22..people know nothing at 22..she needed someone to really take care of her and show her the way.. her story makes me very sad
So sad....she was just looking for someone to love her and at the end the only one who was there by her side was he mom...the love she always wanted...
66tenuta Her mom abandoned her when she was a child. Who gives a fuck if she was there at the very end? She was not there when she needed to be.
@@taciturnorb shes 22 yet she acts like your typical young women on drugs in Hollywood though .
Damn shame and those guys did nothing to steer her in the right direction. Those pricks
People around her failed her :(
Ofc you're right, but she was definitely HIV positive LONG before this and nothing could have saved her from dying.
*Such an underrated celebrity. It's like she never existed.*
Anonyme User That's our society. People are used and exchanged
she was the claimed as the one of the first supermodels. Oh, Gia really so beautiful.
We’re still watching her now and talking about her! She’s lives on in those who learn about her, take an interest in her and keep her name alive.
Anonyme User, they made a movie about her, so everyone knows she existed. She was a model, drug addict, and died of AIDS
her influence in the modeling world is still evident today. what we see as that edgy, smoldering, and weird side of high fashion was due to her influence though they may not know it.
The part that breaks my heart is when she says, "I'm still in shape, everybody. I'm still alive." Then her words seem to drift off. RIP, beautiful broken soul.
She never said that
I just watched Gia (the movie). omg it hurts, poor girl
Me too last nice. I know super sad she was so young
+Halsey Queen Well if you take drugs, that's what you get. Nothing sad about it. She made her choice.
+Laken Tak You don't know much about life I guess
Me too
where did you watch the full movie? online? can i have the link?
It's crazy how much Angelina Jolie was able to copy her voice
Thats why she got a grammy
Lmfao!!! Yeah, Buddy! She got a Grammy...
Tamra Beavers On the movie Gia she won Golden Globe Award.
Dominic Madbull Yea not a GRAMMY that you and Tenya so proudly proclaimed she won.Hopefully that was sarcasm because it that was a legit statement...
My goodness, Grayson. Turn on your damn sarcasm meter.
When I discovered Gia at 10 years old I immediately fell in love. I did a research project on her in High School. I didn’t have many queer role models and Gia was openly interested in women from the age of 13. I once had a girlfriend named Hilary who was also obsessed with Gia. We both found her grave in bucks county back in 2008 and left yellow roses (Gia’s favorite) Gia also became an addict and so did I. Now I’m almost 10 years sober off drugs and alcohol and in school for film. As a filmmaker and a queer sober person, through my creativity and work in the recovery community I hope to honor her and Hilary’s memory (unfortunately, she passed at age 37 in Dec 2021)
how did she pass if you don't mind me asking? :(
What exactly do you mean when you say queen, you mean you're a lesbian? And all this isn't really something to bragging about...its very sad
@@tatiyanaperez5888 I think you meant "Queer" not "Queen". Yes, Queer. I am sending you love and light. i hope you can learn to accept others as I accept you.
@@HowlinWolfMoon I accept people just fine. I'll be honest, I don't have a problem with being gay, it's when the person doesn't know who they are and go back n forth, today I'm a girl tomorrow a guy. Or I'm neither nor, I want to be labeled as they or them. That....is where it gets ridiculous!
Congrats on your recovery!
For some reason , even in her condition, I find her far more relatable, appealing and real than any supermodel I have ever seen. Im sorry all that happened to you. Rest in Peace.
Agree ❤️
Rest in Peace
I thought the same thing. I find her actually more attractive here without all the makeup and all the Bells and whistles.
she is like street smart.... the modeling world destroyed her
A junkie being high is always friendly but they will rob you at gun point at the turn of the switch.
Gia is an example of someone who lacked strong family ties and Emotional Intelligence....but, it was not her fault. Dysfunctional Families produce Lost Souls. The world is a complicated place...and the pressure of her world and the life style of the 80's, DESTROYED many a good men and women....So Sad.
Best comment here.
Lot of people seem to lack empathy and understanding.
Beautiful girl died too young.
I see what kind of person you are. God bless you.
that is so stupid......I come frome a broken family, and today I am a very happy family guy !!!
***** many people around me are just fine and happy also
Ivan Kanaan So Ivan...you are dysfunctional ?
It's soo sad. Such a beautiful women, life ended too soon.
ikr.poor thing she was high during this interview.so much talent & beauty wasted
She was beautiful but her life was very sad and she needed help
+Xtina_Xoxo 24 Yes it looks like shes twitching from coke. Definitely high
+Jimmy L exactly
No excuse!!!!!/people should of helped her whether Gia had asked for help or what not at least tried!!!!!/this didn't have to what happen to her!!!!!!
It’s so crazy how other people in the industry knew about her drug addiction but didn’t try to help her and wrote her off to save their own own career...
Sooo many people commenting about helping an addict. Only because of her pretty face and celebrity status. Im willing to bet you never helped an addict on the street. Addiction is something the general public doesn't understand or want to understand. Recovery is only successful when the addict wants it and does the hard work ALONE . YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG AND ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR ACTIONS AND WORK AT IT . nobody should help you thats enabeling . Us addicts are master manipulators. I am in recovery 18 yrs its possible to recover.
I've been sober off drugs and alcohol for over 4 years but I struggled for many years. I was in and out of jail and rehab for over 6 years, and the only thing I can tell you is that no one can stop an addict until they want to quit on their own. Sadly, many addicts don't get sober until things get really bad or they end up like Gia. I've lost so many people to this disease, and the Fentanyl just makes it 100x times worse with overdose deaths. It is a real epidemic that not many people talk about and it's very sad.
There are thousands in the industry addicted to drugs.
@@raquellambropoulos279haha I never understood that.
We're "master manipulators."
I got news for you y'all are not that smart or clever😢😢
. If people want to be soft and let their heartstrings be played with that's their fault.
But you guys act like y'all R masterminds or something.😂🤦
You could never pull that b.s. on me.. I'd reality check you right there. Haha "Master manipulators."😂
You're delusional...🤦
They were all doing drugs she was just addicted and out of control.
Gia never wore makeup when she wasn't working, she was so beautiful
I met Gia a few times back in the late 70's, Nothing serious though. She was even prettier in person, some days she would hang around in the Art studios I would have coffee at. Some days she would be very nice and bubbly, other days she wouldn't be very nice at all and scream at people, then storm out of the building and disappear for hours, sometimes days. I didn't even know she died until 1990! She was everywhere it seemed, then one day...just nothing. like she never even existed. Sad.
Some thought she was bipolar. Drugs may have been her way of dealing with it.
She didn't die she was a deal agent and they wanted her dead. She pretended to live the life because young models were going missing in nyc.
You were not speaking to the real person.
@@sunnyd2221 Woah, what?? Now I'm confused and would greatly appreciate it if you would please explain what you're talking about? I'm not being sarcastic at all either. :(
Rachel Christensen -- It's just one of those outlandish conspiracy theories. Its not even worth giving any credence towards. Gia's life went precisely as is commonly believed. She made it big and then disappeared from the scene as her psychological issues pushed her towards heroin to numb the emotional pain. The heroin addiction and mental illness she suffered from had a great toll on her. She sadly caught HIV as a result of injecting heroin with a needle that was already used by someone else and that person that used it had HIV. With the help of a group of recovering heroin addicts that she met in rehab, she managed to get clean and quit heroin but then found out she had HIV. Nobody, not even family, wanted to take her in and she was treated like she had leprosy. This was because HIV was not truly understood in the 80's so some thought you could catch it by just being near them. Friends from rehab gave her a safe place to stay and took great care of her until her sickness got the point where she had to be hospitalized. She lived her remaining short time on earth in hospital with regular visits from her family and rehab friends who she said herself were the only true friends in life that she had known.
"What she was doing to herself finally became apparent in her pictures. ... I could see the change in her beauty. There was an emptiness in her eyes."
So true. In those last photos she looked so, empty and hollow.
Her mother was never there for her and abandoned her at the time she needed her. As a mother, I don’t understand how she could do that! So sad
Poor baby. If only knew how loved you really are.. Rest in peace, Gia
So sad, she looks in total agony, at that stage where drugs are not fun at all anymore but you've got to keep taking them just to feel "normal". RIP Gia :-(
The are fun for a short time but by then, some folks are addicted and can’t stop.
AnnaPxx
Exactly right. Withdrawing from drugs is the worst pain ever. It hurts physically and emotionally. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. I don’t miss it at all. 🙏🏼
Glad this footage exists but its a bit tragic to see Gia in that shape. Those are some pretty fucked up twitches.
Was it cocaine? I thought she died of aids contracted from sharing needles. Didn’t know she was on coke as well.
@@TamekaQuails it was crack
What's even more heartbreaking was she had hopes of going to school, wanting to accomplish great things but wasn't able to :(
Shouldn't have taken illegal drugs then.
Bs.. that's the dope talking
To anyone reading this: for the love of god don't ever EVER get addicted to heroin
Too late
ain't that the truth 😩
@@billbailey8628 it’s never too late fam 🙏🏽💪🏼
For anyone reading this: care for yourselves as best you can and however YOU can; do not let the judgments of others dictate you self-worth.
@@frankstared screw that noise. Honestly fuck heroin. For the love of anything that's holy, stay the fuck away from heroin. Listen to people's judgements, that's basic common sense
This is so hard to watch. She is obviously high as a kite.
maryshome8
yeah shes off it.
@Mel. that's not tired sorry to say. Twitching, wish she was just tired :(
Her brain wasn’t working as well anymore..
High on what? Heroin, coke?
She was in rehab during this interview and if you listen she says she's all shakey and crazy because the doctors said her nerves where dead but that as soon as her growing pains end she would be fine. She was in pain. Withdrawal pains.
Get your facts together, do your research, and then post your comments please.
Sounds more like she said that her nerves were bad to me.
Liz Rosa she was not withdrawing dafuqqqqq
Liz Rosa
She was high as a kite
She was just 1.70 cm...no so tall
I wish there were a lot more interviews with Gia. She seems so very interesting.
I know right it seems like she had a great personality
Agree 💯 she seems really fascinating definitely a rebel definitely had a lot to say I'd have loved to have kicked it with her just for a day mind you she was before my time but something about her seems so cool and effortless like she's not even trying
She's high as a kite! What's interesting about that?
All Gia wanted was love.
It was all she wanted
@@JK-lp6uwbecause despite that many cited her as an adventurous spirit who had appeal & made a career for herself, even above the odds and challenges
I’ve known about Gia and followed anything and everything about her for so many years because of how close I felt to her story. I too am a heroin addict who just went through withdrawals and got clean. I’m 26 years old. I keep thinking about how I’m the same age she was when she died. If I hadn’t stopped now or don’t maintain my sobriety, that too could be my destiny. I’ll always admire this woman. So precious and gone far too soon.
Do you shake when you are on heroin? (just genuine curiosity, as she said that)
im proud of you❤
So proud of you so so soooo proud please keep going
Did she die from a drug overdose or complications due to HIV (AIDS)?
One day at a time sweet girl
R.I.P. Gia Marie Carangi. You were one of the most undeniable beauties to ever walk the Earth.
I totally respect her admitting her rehabilitation.
"I still haven't finished my growing pains..."
Love ya, Gia
What does growing pains have to do with rehabilitation?
@@ariawashburn6043it's supposed to mean that she is still detoxing/getting the drugs out of her system...but she's clearly lying cause it's obvious that she's on drugs here.
Today this beautiful girl would have turned 63 years old... God rest her soul... All she wanted was love...
My heart breaks for her here, I'm not kidding. Such a hurting and lost soul. Sweet dear.
I think Gia is her most beautiful when she's like this, being herself and not wearing hair and make up and big glitzy gowns. She really has this androgynous attraction about her. Very tomboyish but very feminine. I can see why everybody was attracted to her.
"I think Gia is her most beautiful when she's like this, being herself" you meant high? ;D
LeavingforVenus Inagettawaycar I was thinking the exact same thing! It's hard to not be attracted to her.
LeavingforVenus Inagettawaycar She was drugged up in this video
LeavingforVenus Inagettawaycar u know she was high though this whole right?
@@Colourful486 lol
she was so beautiful, even with no makeup on. Very pretty face
marcesakurita love your picture
I hope when she reborn, she can live her life peacefully
Gia was such a beautiful model! Probably the world's first supermodel! She suffered so much pain and trauma at the end of her short life. RIP GIA.
i just watch GIA oh my god i cried.
Jackquillin Vitualla omg same
omg y'all stupid!
Jackquillin Vitualla same. right now
i always cry when i know it's based on a true story.
I hate Angelina Jolie as Gia, with her stupid wigs.
I think it was her past that got her into drugs. Her mom left the family when she was very young, and she probably turned to drugs to cope. I personally don't judge her; I just wish that she could of been saved.
Samus Aran l
Yeah her mom left early but a lot of people come from broken homes and are ok ! She got into drugs because of the crowd she hung around period
@@kyeface377 You don't know the full story and are not in her shoes, it's better if you don't judge.
@INTUITIVE TAROT - ASMR STARSEED I'm sorry about your daughter, my condolences.
Judging by the autobiographical movie of her life, her mother seems like a narcissist. Children of narcissists carry enormous trauma that can be complex, and difficult to even verbalize. On the one hand, they learned to mirror and copy the narcissism in order to survive… but on the other hand they were abused by it. Often times children of narcissists end up having Borderline PD- many have strong traits of narcissism themselves which as I stated was a coping mechanism- although it doesn’t excuse the abusive nature of it. I feel like modeling was the perfect storm for this all to manifest in the worst way for her, and then she understandably turned to addiction to cope and comfort herself. Overall a very sad story, but important to remember that this is happening to countless people across the world who nobody knows about.
She’s so high in this video 😕
I'm a child of a narcissist. I empathize. I had a bad addiction to the strongest Rx opiates for yrs. I'm alive by the grace of God. It was different twenty years ago before they started cutting street drugs with other lethal stuff.☹️
I've got such a crush on her, I'm so sorry she felt so alone in a sea of people. Wish she didn't have to suffer the way she did, I'm currently reading ' Thing of Beauty' and it's letting me get to know her a lot more. I feel that apart from her beauty there was so much more to her, what a fascinating person
Beautiful lady, god rest her soul x
Her one sided smile! Gosh! 22 years old and look at that Swagger. Despite the fact that she's probably high on this interview, she's just cool. The way she said "motherfuckers", it had a crunch. I find that a little funny, But..... she's just another victim of an abusive broken home. Some children grows up and makes it but some runs out of luck. Rest In Peace, Gorgeous Androgynous Woman.
+queen nie No androgyny here she was a straight up butch! Died of HIV
muffin6369 Really? hahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Excuse me but how many actual butches in real life can pull off a dress and high heels?
How many actual butches in real life can put on makeup and look elegantly high fashion?
She had the vibe of a cute young boy because of her MANNERISMS but Gia's face, hair,and body wasn't MANLY.
She contracted AIDS from sharing needles, not being bisexual. I swear, people know nothing but just announce it like it is fact.
Gia was one of the first women in the public eye to die due to."complications stemming from AIDS", there was no help then and her death was awful. Doctors and nurses wore "space suits" when they actually deigned to check on her in the crappy state-run (IIRC) hospital.
Amy Lynn Hunt I know she probably contracted AIDS from needles. There's no argument here honey. In the 70's, people weren't aware of what can happen with sharing the drug paraphernalia. I read Stephen Fried's book. Plus, she is not bisexual. She identified as gay. Sure, she probably had sex with men for money when she got so desperate to get another fix or had been sexually taken advantage of unconsciously when she was in the shooting galleries but her heart was exclusively for women.
que en nothing is cool here
She's magnetic. It's a shame we don't have more.
Gia is beautiful with or without makeup. Look at her features, she was born to be a model. My heart aches when I reflect on her story, she deserved to live, thrive and was entitled to a life. Yes, my heart actually hurts when I reflect on her life and death.
No disrespect, but se was born to beautiful gentle soul, not to be a model.
RIP taken to soon..Gia definitely changed the modeling game and for that she will forever be one of the greatest
Nothing poor about Gia.she'd have kicked your ass! Nobody pitied Gia,especially herself.May you forever run wild,my beautiful angel child
She has a cool personality. I read a book about her, and I never thought about fashion when reading it - somehow I picked the book up in the 11th grade, and kept going; it spoke of her lesbian-isms and illnesses most vividly, how the flesh fell from her back; her death and so on. I had no mirage, no preconception, nor even a mention of her ever in my life. I just liked the book and Gia. I can't forget that. I think this video reminds me most of what the book said.
Name of the book
@@chinekeconfidence5407 GIA🇮🇹
She seems very butch off camera it's so funny on camera she's super feminine and wildly sexy off camera she's almost like a dude 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@chinekeconfidence5407thing of beauty
How beautiful she is. Absolutely ethereal. Oh baby I wish you didn't go through all you went through. May your beautiful soul rest in peace.
she was really beautiful .
No one helped this poor girl who is so apparently struggling with addiction. Heartbreaking.
It's not easy to help an addict once they're in deep enough. Sometimes it's actually impossible depending on how stubborn or self-destructive the user is.
Did you ever triy to help heroin addicts?
Only the addict can do the work to find recovery. Nobody can help you. I lived it. 18 yrs in recovery from heroin.
@@joshburns4611 yea exacly she was deep deep already , she did all kinds of drugs at 17 y old . Minimum 10 years od drugs
Helping an addict is risky, even with professional help, if the are not willing to recover there is nothing to do
She was just as beautiful without the make up and fancy clothes.
That poor girl. I absolutely believe, and psychology backs this up, that key childhood relationships, primarily with the mother and father, and other significant biological adults either builds up or tears down the child's self esteem. If it's in the negative, it will impact the entire adult life.
True story 😔. It's a extremely challenging to rewire my whole make up. It's extremely frustrating
man, she looks so badass, i'd fall in love from the first glance :D she also reminds me of young Johnny Depp somehow
I hope you found the peace you sought for so long Gia, being wild and having pain inside yourself could be very hard to deal with especially in a world where so many people would not hesitate in tearing into pieces. RIP
It's strange to think that 32 years ago today was Gia's last day on this planet. 32 years... Where the hell does time go? I was born a few months before her, and I can remember just how confusing that time was. The 70's were bizarre to say the least. I also worked in what I suppose you could call an 'unreal' industry at exactly the same time as she was modelling, and I know just how easy it was to be seduced by things that one should have steered clear of. I became a drunk, I was never rich enough to be an alcoholic. With Gia it was drugs and a dirty needle. With me it was a wake up call at about the same time as she was breathing her last. So I lived and she died. Who decides which way the coin lands? Gia fascinates me though and I don't know why. I wish that I could have met her and influenced her, but that's romantic nonsense because at the time I would have probably been just as off my face as she was. They were strange days indeed! I hope that if there is an afterlife that she's found peace, and even though I never did meet her I always hold a small part of her in my heart. No one, no matter how haunted by demons they are deserves to die so young and in such a hideous way, especially when they have the world at their feet. RIP Gia. You are missed.x
Beautiful statement
What a sweet statement Paul.
great share. hope your recovery is still going strong.
thxx
Time simply inevitably passes and then is trapped forever in a place to be viewed whenever we want. UA-cam is the closest thing we will ever get to a time machine.
I just watched this video for the first time. The similarity between her and another all time beauty, Edie Sedgwick are unbelievable. Both from messed up families, both turned to drugs to cope, both otherworldly beautiful. Both deceased by age 28. Such tragedies. R.I.P. ladies
Gia was 26 when she died.
John D. And don’t forget, they both died in the month of November!! 🤯🤯
If this was filmed in 82, then it was when she was desperately trying to make a come back in modeling. By 1980 her career was in steep decline and by 1981 she moved back to Philadelphia to live with her mother. Her come back never materialized because as you can see here, she was still heavily into drugs. Sadly by 83/84 she was flat broke and began working odd jobs in clothing stores, as a checkout clerk and even worked in the cafeteria of a nursing home. Despite various attempts to quit drugs during this time, they all failed. In June 1986 she was diagnosed with AIDS and by November of that same year had passed away of AIDS-related complications. She was only 26 years old.
+berjaboy thanks for that recap. i actually didn't know a lot of that stuff. i watched the GIA movie a long time ago and had completely forgotten about the details
+sydandtaytum You're welcome.
Wow. Lots of interesting details I wouldn't have guessed. Her drug counselor believed she really had bipolar disorder. There was some questions as to whether her father molested her (in a documentary on her life). She was also described as being "a greedy bitch" when it came to taking heroin, and other junkies were surprised at how much she'd take - no doubt, might have been self medicating. Her girlfriend, Sandy Linter, claimed that she didn't like her beauty and she was said to have thought modeling to be bull shit (coudn't have helped being gay/non-feminine especially during this era). An above post said that she liked to wear men's clothes and no make up . Some described her as almost being like a brooding James Dean and with a lot of presence.
@@lambchop6278 you can feel the presence with out doubt.
So she died Nov 26 and she was 26 poor soul she is free now
Today, in 1986, God called your name, you suffered a great deal, but He released you from it all. I know you can't hear me beloved Gia, but I want you to know that are not forgotten, and you were loved, you had a gift, had you been around caring, loving people that meant you well, they would have showed you how to properly use it. I had never seen any model in model history that possessed your raw, and exotic beauty, your fierceness, and just being natural. Rest well Gia, we love you still.,,❤️
Gia is without a doubt the most gorgeous female model that has ever existed
I want to hug her
I know :(
So sad when a young life is taken early due to addiction. Hope she is resting in peace.
I used to think he said "Come close again" at 1:37, but now I think he actually said, "Take your clothes off again" which would explain Gia's reaction and asking him if he's a voyeur. . . It was a legitimately shady comment from this dude that I think she handled pretty well considering everything she was going through. Whether she was high during this filming or not, I think she still maintains a keen sense of humor and awareness of herself.
Gia was GORGEOUS. I don’t knock her for the road she went down- I feel horrible for her. I’m sober myself I know the struggle. It’s so sad seeing someone as stunning as Gia sad and hiding behind the demons of drugs.
I hope she knows how she’s looked still even today 2022 and I hope she is resting in sweet peace. 🙏🏻💖
You can seem to have everything, but you can lose it all just like anyone. RIP . She was so young to face such a terrible affliction.
Wow she looks like an aggressive femme (gay lingo) in this interview. I couldn't see it in the movie since Angelina is so gorgeous but yes in her interviews I can see she was going through some things. It's so sad. She was 26 years YOUNG. Addicts eventually die from what they self medicate with. My dad, rest his soul, is an example of what can happen. RIP Gia and RIP daddy.
CaressasPassion aggressive femme.. Its sure attractive.
I’ve never heard of anyone self medicating with AIDS
I think she's just high
@@cbo2762 LMAO Forgive Me but I couldn't help it!!!
Looking at Giant in this clip, Angelina Jolie doesn't hold a candle to her. But, Hollywood works with what it's got.
gia was one of the most beautiful women i have ever seen.i met her in the carribbean in. the early eighties. she had just finished a shoot at the SUGARbird resort and she and several model friends went sailing with me aboard my yacht CALLISTO. WE SAILED ALL AFTERNOON AND SHE sat on deck next to me the entire time i was steering my course.she was breathtakingly BEAUTIFUL AND SO very intelligent the entire cruise. i was smitten and told her so .i stayed with her for several days. oil never forget how wonderful she was .... .. .
Gia was so naturally BEAUTIFUL!! Unfortunately she didn't get the love she needed as a child. RIP
You can tell she’s on something. She had such potential. R.I.P. Gia. ❤️🥀🥀
Yes and it looks like the drug is wearing off. Right?
I used to be a heroin and crack addict, it is not a choice, I didn't one day wake up and decide to fuck up my life! Its hard to explain it to people who haven't actually been there but once the drug has you it controls you and you are not you anymore.this was tradgic that this had to happen to such a beautiful young girl. May she rest in peace, and anyone who says otherwise should be ashamed of their narrow mindedness!!!! You really have no idea how hard things were for her. Poor poor girl.
If it is not a conscience decision that you made (choice) how than did you realize it was bad and how or why did you make a conscience decision to stop. Please help me understand. I know when I was drinking. I made a choice if i wanted to pick up the bottle or not to. One day I prayed and asked God to help me stop and God answered my prayers and literally the next day I stopped. I find a lot of times us humans never want to take responsibility for our own actions and choices we make in life. We like to play victim. When we try sin for the first time we never think we will become slaves to it, but we do. Saying you had no choice is a cop out.
Ditto charlene
Nai Daviis you just have to get sick of it. I know when i got sober my life was terrible, i was on the verge of death prostituting and living an ugly ugly dark life and i had had enough, if someone doesnt want to change they wont. some people cant ever change and unfortunatley Gia couldnt get it. its very sad but she was a sad sad girl and couldnt break free so now she is finally free.
people have no clue what drugs do to you when you are addicted. you will do WHATEVER it takes. you no longer have ontrol and you are not yourself.
I had to stop it was either that or die if I didnt have a family that cared I doubt I would have stopped, I coukdnt do it to them anymore, I was getting beat up by dealers all the time, I overdosed a few times. And its not a simple as choosing to stop its hard I didnt just make the descision to stop and then I stopped, I still fight the urge to use drygs every day and probabky will for the rest of my life. When I first went into drugs I was very uneducated on their effect and what they could do to a person. So yes I had a choice but I didnt know what I was getting themselves into. If you find co fort in god thats good for you but I personally think thats a load of shit, there is no god if there was the terrible things in the world wouldnt happen, if you we able to just wake up one day and easily stop drinking then im sorry but you were not addicted. The way you talk shows you have no clue about addiction what so ever Nai, if you spent a year or more truely addicted to drugs or alcohol then you would understand everything im saying. I take responsibility for my actions, I was an idiot to ever get into all that but if it was as easy as to ask god for help and stop the next day do you really think the world would have addiction problems like it does? Congratulations on staying clean/sober alora danon, I know how hard it is, getting clean is easy I think but staying clean is hell.
such a beautiful soul wow I really wish I could go back in time and meet her
I was born in Philly on the day she died in Philly. Trippy. She used to hang out close to my neighborhood.
*and which neighborhood is that in philly*
@@Pamela-zy7vc around Lincoln high school. She used to hang out around there.
@@michaelfeeney6108 *Mayfair section*
@@Pamela-zy7vc yes, that’s where I grew up
@@michaelfeeney6108 👍
Jesus, i want give her a hug so bad, this poor girl just want to be loved and peoples in industry used her. Such a gay icon, i hope she is in a better place rigth now
Fico imaginando a Gia viva até hoje com 56 anos, ela ainda seria sem dúvida nenhuma uma belíssima mulher.
If only she was alive today, but we will all remember the iconic Gia
It's sad that the industry ate her up and used her like they did. She really needed help, and nobody seemed to care, I remember seeing her on cosmopolitan and back then not knowing her story, thinking how beautiful she was and to watch her story and realize how lonely and broken she was just made it so tragic.. drugs were like candy, so easy to get for her, so easy to escape.. I can't see how you could have any kind of normal in that kind of world 😕
İconic voice
She def has a Philly dialect, but an inner city Philly or South NJ dialect. I grew up in PA, so I can tell.
It's so sad to see the negative comments...I'm sure if the world was perfect then drugs and I mean all drugs wouldn't be used!! Rip Gia
She was and still will be an icon ,a legandary beauty for her fans all around the world despite all the bad stuff told about her.RIP sweet angel
I feel like she was such a fun, sweet, good person who just struggled to find her true way in life. I hope she finally found peace and knows how special she really was!
You get that from one clip where she's high? She wasn't very bright, and her looks were all she had going for her. The realisation of that is likely what drove her to use. She was never going to have a real job or career like Scavullo did.
She also "acted" very working class even though her family had money, and carried a knife in her pocket (to harm or threaten people?). It's funny how she hated modelling cause of how fake it all was, but her whole persona was inauthentic. She puts on a completely different voice in that TV interview, I assume that was her real voice and this "tough chick" voice is fake.
There are so many addicts on the street who people wouldn't even look at. They probably make fun of the "crazy crack heads" they encounter, but you have sympathy for Gia just cause she was attractive. That's really sad.
@@jenjones90 whats sad is you typing all that out when no one cares
So so sad may she rest in peace .The price children pay because of broken families and the modeling mafias .Always a legend
The movie based on her life was so sad had me and my cousin in tears especially when she was speaking to her girlfriend for the very last time
Yes that was so touching, but sad
yes it was
We are all entitled to our opinions, but some of these are pretty harsh judgements. I think Gia was so beautiful. She also had instability in her early life, and then shot to worldwide fame when she was still just a teenager. That's a lot to deal with. We all have our issues, and we don't always choose the best ways to deal with difficult feelings - hopelessness, fear, anxiety, depression - some of us turn to drugs. Why are celebrities expected to be any different? They're not invincible - they're human beings. I'm sure had Gia lived past 26 (because that is still so young) she would have continued to mature, grow, and learn to deal with her issues. She never had that chance. I'm not judging her at all. I'm 29, and still figuring myself out.
So true
Hopefully you doing well now
So true
Hopefully you are doing well now
Things were different back then and people were not so clued up on what to do, in order to help someone like Gia.
It’s a shame.
Personally, people are either be too harsh or too soft, on one hand people are acting like she's scum for being a junkie and that it makes her less human, on the other hand, people are acting like its everybody else's fault she's a junkie and that it's they're duty to drop everything to help her.
I wish I could just hug her and tell her it'll be okay. Poor beautiful soul.
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
She’s absolutely high in this video & loaded! Man 80s were crazy when it came to drugs! Feel sad for her, she needed guidance that’s it
She had an addiction, folks, its not a moral issue... damm People can be heartless.
The problem with addiction is that it could be avoided if it was never started. Not everyone has an addictive personality, but one should know oneself and live to take care of oneself. People have worse problems and never get into deep trouble as this young girl did. It should be a lesson to others. And....don't blame everyone else for your problems but look inside and use your head!!!!!
Yes....an addiction that she herself created unfortunately. There is no blame to be had here because it’s self inflicted.
@@drastelli9323 people have trauma and mental illness
Gorgeous woman - very sad and tragic! I think she would have went very far if she was still alive. A total
Iconic person...
Dont know much about her story I'm curious to know it even though I'm behind on the info gotta admit your very beautiful woman yourself grochellepalomino hope you dont take it the wrong way just saying the truth to you
I love her voice.
22 and says I’m still alive
Gia is an example that you need to help people when you see something wrong, or if they struggle. Her agents just cared about how hard she worked and looking beautiful. It seems she could easily have been saved if someone did something earlier on. Gia had so much life ahead and the people who didnt help her, killed her...she felt alone, and had so much on her plan..she was so young..she just needed an extra hand like she wanted..she did try give signs. She wasnt completely gone..she knew. Gia will always be an example that if you cant help that person, than try get someone to help your friend..you cant just leave me...if everyon never helped anyone..the world be fucked up. Dont give up.
Gia went to Abraham Lincoln High School in Philadelphia in the mid 70's. She was about 6 months older than me. I went to school with her, as did about 4000 other students. We just called the school Lincoln. At that time the schools were loaded with what we called "Bowie Freaks." A lot of the girls tried to emulate David Bowie's, at that time, androgynous look. Lincoln High School had "Ramps," rather than steps in the main hall. Everyone hung out at the ramps and used them to change classes. It was impossible to have gone to LHS at that time and not have passed Gia. I'd be willing to bet that most never even realized the connection.
I started Lincoln in 78 so I just missed her. I believe my freshman class brought the 4000 up to 6000. It was a coincidence that I ended up being a magazine fashion photographer. Although I worked with her agencies, I never worked with her. Her short career ended as mine was taking off in Philly with a year overlap. I remember the Bowie girls. Lincoln was razed a few years ago because it was just too big and old. The ramps were there because the school could be turned into an emergency hospital if there ever was a catastrophe. We used to grow weed in the school's greenhouse but that's another story.
@@mesapysch We no doubt passed each other in the halls, on the ramps, or in the lunchroom. I lived around Vogt Playground back in the day. If you don't know where that's at, think Frankford and Knoor.
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Taken from the book about Gias life almost word for word. Don't you worry about plagurism? I read the book so many times that I too can recite it . I grew up in the 80s and in Chicago but i could recite the book as well and pretend I was from Lincoln lol . Whatever is missing from your life, to make you feel so small that you have to invent this idea of being there i hope it helps.
@@raquellambropoulos279 You must really be an idiot. Every "celebrity" you see went to some school. Obviously other people went to those schools too. Gia went to Lincoln High School at the same time as about 4000 of us.
Are you so small minded that you have nothing better to do than inject your ignorance into something that you know nothing about. What was "missing" from my "life" was an idiot, but now you answered my prayers and filled that roll.
I seriously doubt that you could "read" any book with words having more than 3 letters each.
"Whatever is missing from your life, to make you feel so small that you have to" inject yourself "into something to feel this idea of "someone caring what your small mind thinks, " i hope it helps."
I really don't care what you think and I highly doubt that you can actually read and formulate a response to anything.
@@raquellambropoulos279 Word for word? Okay genius, write the word for word quote from "the book." Put up or shut up. Actually I'd prefer you shut up.
I remember her covers from the late 70’s and early 80’s ... and then she was gone😣 . . . We didn’t know anything about AIDS back then. It took Rock Hudson dying in a Paris hospital for the public to take notice😏 So tragic ... “Gia” is still Angelina’s best performance!
I Love Gia She is so Perfect! She is so Precious to this Universe and I think the world of her! She is Heavenly and a Perfect Angel! I Adore her and hold her dearly in my heart I Love her very much! Her energy is perfect and her ora is powerfully energized by light. I can see so much good in her but most of all I see her beautiful heart. A Pure Heart with lots of love and good. I am truely happy for all her Success! I will always be her Fan!
I so relieved her suffering is over I send Gia hugs so special cute playful....... A great person
It's hard watching this because she's obviously not in the right stste of mind but she was a beautiful young lady and still very young.
The personality of a truly great artist, it she would of had the chance to make films they would have been heavy and beautiful and magnificent
So heartbreaking... She lived fast, no one to guide her out of 'the persona' and at the end it sadly took a toll on her free-spirited life 😭 A gem 💎 of our early '90s fashion. RIP Gia. She seems a brilliant teen... Most of her quotes just show how wise she is and is still relevant advice to the newcomer of the industry
Gia is gorgeous a natural beauty....... I saw the movie Gia and she had a very depressing life......... She never chose to be an addict it chose her....... But she seems very loving and caring a good person with lots of bad luck....... Rest in peace Gia
I love you Gia ♥️🇮🇹♥️
Bless her heart and soul. Even here you can see how beautiful she truly was. You can see she was struggling here and was either coming down off of a high or having withdrawals. I feel like so many people just used her up to and left her feeling empty therefore the drugs were her constant go to friend. My heart hurts knowing what she went through, the personal emotional struggles she endured and then her subsequent death from HIV/AIDS. RIP Gia.❤️🤲🏻
no one from the fashion industry attended her funeral. Me Sculluvano sent a letter atleast x..
Gia was amazing, so exciting and interesting!
Such a tragic story, a beautiful tragic story of a beautiful woman. Ever since she was a child.. She deserved better than this. I hope you're healthy and happy wherever you are Gia ❤️
Hello 🙋♂️
Just watched the movie Gia ,and I feel so sad for her ,she got what she wanted to do but she was just a kid , nobody to guide her
She was one of the "original supermodels" people don't know about.
It's heartbreaking, yet inspiring
Doesn't supermodel mean your a household name?
@@cassondralynch6342 no, it's more about how successful you are in the industry. And she was on vogue several times.. it doesn't get bigger than that especially in the 80's.
@@sassycat6487 Gotcha! :)
She was so young. My daughter’s age. She needed help, and not even her mother was decent enough to help her.