„I miss my brother man why couldn’t it have be me not him“: Am vergangenen Montag erklärte Chris Long via Twitter, dass es ihm noch immer schwer falle, mit dem Tod seines Freundes und Wegbegleiters Juice WRLD zurecht zu kommen. Als Fotograf an der Seite des Rappers hatte Long sich einen Namen in der Szene gemacht. „I can’t do this anymore. I give up“, schrieb er weiter und gab an, im Bezug auf Juice WRLDs Tod einige Details aufklären zu wollen.
Juice WRLD war am 08. Dezember 2019 im Alter von nur 21 Jahren verstorben. Als offizielle Todesursache wird im Obduktionsbericht eine Überdosis von Oxycodon und Kodein angegeben. Während einer Polizeidurchsuchung seines Privatjets am Flughafen Chicago-Midway durch Beamte des Chicago Police Department und des FBI erlitt Juice WRLD einen plötzlichen Krampfanfall und kollabierte. Die Beamt*innen, die bei ihrer Durchsuchung einem Hinweis des Piloten folgten, stellten neben einigen Kilogramm Marihuana auch Opioide, mehrere Handfeuerwaffen sowie Munition sicher. Juice WRLD wurde in ein Krankenhaus eingeliefert, wo er nur kurz darauf für tot erklärt wurde. Mitglieder seines Teams sollen damals angegeben haben, dass der Rapper mehrere Pillen zu sich genommen habe, um sie vor den Einsatzkräften zu verstecken.
Dieser Aussage widerspricht Fotograf Chris Long öffentlich auf Twitter. „J did not swallow a bunch of pills because the police where at the airport“, stellt er klar. Juice WRLD und sein Team hätten sich nicht für die Beamt*innen und die anstehende Durchsuchung interessiert, und selbst wenn, zur Beseitigung der fraglichen Substanzen hätte es andere Möglichkeiten gegeben. „He could have flushed them in the toilet, if he cared“, so Long. Es sei vielmehr Juice WRLDs Drogensucht geschuldet, dass der Rapper zu diesem Zeitpunkt eine erhebliche Dosis eigentlich verschreibungspflichtiger Medikamente zu sich genommen habe. „J was just hooked so bad“, erklärt Chris Long weiter. Niemand habe genau darüber Bescheid gewusst, welche Menge an Drogen Juice WRLD tagtäglich konsumiert habe. Sicher sei nur, dass sein Konsum absurde Dimensionen erreicht hatte. Juice WRLD habe dies allerdings vor seinen Mitmenschen versteckt. „Everyone around him tried really hard to get him to slow down“. Der Rapper habe einem Entzug zugestimmt, allerdings nicht, um clean zu werden, sondern um seine tägliche Dosis zu verringern. „He didn’t want to stop. […] We tried so hard to do positive things everyday like ride dirt bikes or paintball to keep busy and not do pills but every night once he hit the studio that was it. He loved it.“ Aus Angst, dass Juice WRLD schlecht gepresste Pillen zu sich nehmen könne, habe Chris Long selbst die Tabletten mithilfe von Teststreifen untersucht. Long habe selbst nie in gleichem Ausmaß wie Juice WLRD konsumiert, der Tod seines Freundes versetze ihn aber nach wie vor in eine emotionale Ausnahmesituation. „I never did pills like that maybe occasionally take a half they always scared me. I’d sip sometimes for sure. Now I want to take percs and sip and get fucked up as possible to feel like those times when actually I did do it with him.„
Chris Long gibt auf ergreifende Weise Details zum Tod seines Weggefährten bekannt. „I had to watch little bro die at my feet. I had to look in his eyes while he was dying and I could do anything about it“, schreibt er. Die Bilder des am Boden liegenden Juice WRLD haben sich in seine Erinnerung eingebrannt, so Long. „I want to stop it“, gesteht er. Der Verlust seines Freundes habe ihn nachhaltig zerstört.
I can’t do this anymore. I give up.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 10, 2021
Thanks for all the messages. I’m trying so hard.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
But if I can’t do it let’s make sure some things are clear.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
J did not swallow a bunch of pills because the police where at the airport. We gave no fucks about them being there. He could have flushed them down the toilet if he cared.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
J was just hooked bad. The amount he took daily was absurd and he hid how much he really took from mostly everyone. Everyone around him tried really hard to get him to slow down. When he agreed to rehab it was because he wanted to lower his tolerance. He didn’t want to stop.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
J was supposed to go to rehab that month. We tried so hard to do positive things everyday like ride dirt bikes or paintball to keep busy and not do pills but every night once he hit the studio that was it. He loved it.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
I never thought he would od I was always scared of getting bad pressed pills so got test strips. I tested every batch he got, but no one knew how much he really took because he was hiding it. Once max and I really started counting how much he had and how fast he went though them
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
I miss him so much. Everyday. I miss having someone to talk to that understood me and cared. I miss goofing off. I miss filming him freestying for me because he knew I loved it. I miss making him Red Baron pizza at 3:30am and he liked it burned af. Shit I miss rolling his blunts
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
I never did pills like that maybe occasionally take a half they always scared me. I’d sip sometimes for sure. Now I want to take percs and sip and get fucked up as possible to feel like those times when actually I did do it with him.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
I had to watch little bro die at my feet. I had to look in his eyes while he was dying and I could do anything about it.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
He had nothing to worry about. He knew the cops where there before we landed. We put that strap in my bag it was all good I had a clean record and I’m a register owner. I had no problem taking that charge.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
That man treated me better than any other human on earth. Just on a personal level. He cared about me just like all his friends. It was so genuine and pure.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
And I can’t stop thinking about him over and over again there on the ground and I was just looking in his eyes that’s how I had to say bye to him. It’s just burned into my brain. I want it to stop.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
I had to watch Ally holding him screaming losing the love of her life right in her arms.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
It’s so hard to function sometimes this has ruined me completely. It’s ruined jobs, relationships I don’t think I’ll ever feel normal again.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
I miss my brother man why couldn’t it have be me not him.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 11, 2021
I just want to shut my brain off.
— chrislongfilms (@chrislongfilms) May 12, 2021
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