based on the Twitter-dom, DJ AM's death seems to be for real.
Another reality show ending in tragedy. This time MTV's Gone Too Far, an intervention show that featured DJ AM, and already had eight episodes in the can.
It's unclear whether MTV will pull the plug completely on the series as sister Viacom network recently did with Megan Wants a Millionaire and I Love Money 3.
Considering he died of a drug overdose, it would seem incredibly tacky to air this show.
It’s unfortunate he died but quite frankly, this guy had a RARE second chance at life and he blew it. It’s difficult for me to muster up too much sympathy for him.
Hopefully pull the plug
wow vicom is like in hot water with these tragedies, but its cable so theyll find a replacement fast
Hopefully everybody involved with reality TV dies.
Just joking about actually wanting them dead, but they are scum and create nothing of value.
Whatever else he was, DJ AM was an artist, and created something that people valued outside of this show.
He died of a drug overdoes. I don’t feel sorry for him. If you take drugs and you die, it is your own fault. Cancel the show!!!
He had eleven years of sobriety. I suspect foul play. All of you should be less evil a fellow human has died and you’re leaving nasty comments of a website about a show he spent the last year of his sobriety making. None of you know what happened the police have not released anything.
Air it. It shows just how real the disease of addiction is and how not being aware of it for just a short time can ultimately cost you your life. DJ AM wanted to help addicts or he would have never signed on to do this show. This situation demonstrates the reality of whether you have 11 years of sobriety or 1 day it can never be taken for granted. One with addiction must always work at it and keep it at the forefront of their life, each and every day. Addiction is a disease of the mind, body and soul, a disease that tells your mind you want to use, that you want to hurt the most important people in your life, this disease wants you to die. This was not DJ AM, it was his disease that took over. It can grip anyone. Famous, rich, young, old, poor…no one is immune to it. By airing this show, it sheds light to an all too common situation in several people’s lives around the world. Whether they are the addicts or family members of addicts, this show can help people. I truly believe that. My heart goes out to the family & friends of DJ AM, to the hardworking producers of this show, and to the addicts that were hopefully gaining insight to their own addiction. Even if this show helps one person with an addiction problem, it will have served its purpose.
I currently work at a rehab center where two of the shows addicts are. I think it is a very good message to send other addicts and kids that would watch the show. This disease is so deadly and his death will have an impact on every kid that he brought into treatment. It will bring home the idea that they need to work their program or they will die. It will only be a matter of time… it is so sad but true…God Bless DJ AM for bringing in these two amazing kids to our facility. To not show the work that they have done on their own would be a shame. Addiction is a deadly disease and I”m so sorry that it got the best of him…at least he got a chance to give a second chance to these kids…
Moonpie, one thing I was thinking about when I posted this is that unlike Megan/I Love Money 3, they might be able to package the episodes/footage so that there is some public service benefit with airing Gone Too Far
Between this and the incident the other day, just shows how some people have zero class. Seriously, craigward, do you do anything of value or purpose?
The man has been sober for 9 to 11 years. The aftermath of escaping death and other probable tragedies in his life could have easily caused a paved downward spiral. People that treat these victims of drugs like the scum of the earth are ignorant but dispicable too.
Just to play devil’s advocate, Julian, we don’t know he’d been sober for 9 to 11 years, because prior to his death, we all thought he was currently drug-free.
I’m not sure how you could package it to avoid DJ AM talking about how “when he used to be on drugs” or how life is now that he’s clean. And if comments like that aren’t removed, the juxtaposition between the words and the reality are going to be unavoidably jarring on the viewer. If I were MTV, I’d eat the cost and scrap the show rather than take a gamble on how the public will receive it. Maybe they could do something really crazy instead like air some music videos in its place.
The show sends like its exploitative trash(like VH1′s intervention). I’m not against interventions or the work done to help people get through their addictions; its just mostly despicable to film it. Are we really at a point where filming the suffering of others for entertainment is OK? I’m surprised so many people are willing to put their most personal private struggle on film for others to watch. It can’t be healthy for the recovery process to have the cameras everywhere, maybe DJ AM proves that. Don’t air the show.
*sounds like, not sends like
Dave really? The first step to recovery is to admit you have a problem. For many people this step requires being able to see it from another point of view; it takes seeing others like them and just how bad it is. Shows like these help people recognize and understand their disease and it’s destruction. More importantly it is a great preventative visual to the youths of America who watch these shows. Intervention is one show where no one wishes to be in the protagonists shoes and hopefully the impact on the decisions of young viewers is one of a lifetime. I hope MTV finds a way through the editing process and perhaps an additional special to tell these stories. The death of anyone is tragic, but the ability to prevent even one death through broadcasting the struggles of others is worth it.