Spungen quickly established herself in the punk scene as a new kind of groupie, as punk journalist Legs McNeil told New York Magazine in — and she embodied the nastiest parts of the scene. Punk was supposed to piss off everybody and make people think.
The two met in London in and quickly became an item. The couple rattled around the U. And then, on October 12th, , year-old Spungen bled to death on the bathroom floor of a room in the Chelsea Hotel in New York. Months later, while awaiting trial for her murder, Vicious died from an overdose. For many, it was the end of an era. At 11, Spungen was expelled from school and sent to a boarding school in Connecticut for children with special needs, from where she graduated at age 16, according to Philly.
She also spent time in a mental institution and was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teen, according to New York.
She arrived right as the punk movement was blowing up — and the heroin epidemic in New York City was white-hot. And then here comes Nancy. She had mousy brown hair and she was a bit overweight.
The following year they were signed to EMI. Once Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious met, they were inseparable. But the other members of the Sex Pistols hated Spungen — a woman viewed by even people who liked her as domineering and combative. From Deborah's point of view, Nancy was an unreasonable, mentally ill child who "trashed" her life. I think she had a really stifling middle-class upbringing.
She was blatantly honest about [using drugs to meet musicians]: She bought drugs for the bands. She was honest about being a prostitute as well, which I thought was refreshing. The punk scene, like any other scene, had its little hierarchies. There were groupies that had been around for a long time because of their looks. In order to be a groupie you had to be tall and skinny and have fashionable clothes. I had like a lotta problems. I was just real different from everybody else. I was a lot smarter than them.
So I just started to really rebel against my parents, I hated them a lot. They got real worried and sent me to a shrink.
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