Eric Clapton Speaks About Pattie Boyd and Alcohol Addiction in 1999 Interview
Eric Clapton Speaks About Pattie Boyd And Alcohol Addiction In 1999 Interview – 60 Minutes with Ed Bradley.
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It’s human nature to want what we can’t have. Then when we have conquered
it. the excitement is gone.?
well Eric states here in this interview that he was crazy about something
he could not have..think about it Men often want the Lady they cannot
have’when they get what they want,they find they never wanted it….Go
figure??
LUST IS MORE LIKE IT-CREEPY EGO MANIAC.
infatuation and love are two different things. He probably was infatuated
with her and felt he loved her back then but now realises it was just
that…infatuation
I don’t like him. He spent years chasing her and writing songs for her when
she was married to George, and now says he didn’t know if he loved her.
Must be awful if she hears this.
Clapton is a Giant, and how many of us can claim that for ourselves? It’s
complicated with the drugs and the drink, now we’re old and revisionist and
introspective, and the women always get put through the wringer…
I think he is being honest in this interview when he says he doesn’t know
if he loved her because he doesn’t think he was capable of loving someone.
I’ve read Pattie’s autobiography and I really don’t think he did. He’s much
wiser now and mature, and most importantly, sober and I think he is trying
to see things for how they really were.
Typical drug addict bullshit.
It had presumably built up to that point. Perhaps the last pure thing that
he had held onto fell apart, then he sought out help. Within his low self
esteem he would ignore his issues although he was aware of them.
practicing drunk i think he said.
cheers! it was indeed.
Takes quite a bit of discipline to decide you’re not gonna drink anymore on
your own accord and on your own rather abrupt terms.
As a practicing what? I couldn’t get what he said and a google search led
nowhere.
Well…that’s a bit much… here he is, obsessing about her n’ telling her
he loves her, writing one of the best loved songs of the 20th Century for
her and even dangling a bag of heroin in her face and telling her if she
didn’t go with him he was gonna be a junkie, hijacking her from his best
friend…putting her thru all of that misery only to finally say he never
really loved her at all…how fucked up is that? Pretty low even for a rock
star.
It’s revisionist history. Maybe he’s being philosophical by not calling it
love. It’s not as though obsession and love are mutually exclusive. I don’t
know why he makes that distinction. He admits he was obsessed with her. I
once broke up with a girl who later told me she cut herself because of her
unrequited love. She was depressed. A few years later she told me she
didn’t think she even loved me back then. I found that funny, because I
actually remember all those moments and her emotions…
Well you dont understand how much drugs and alcohol can change a persons
life, from experience I know im more aware of who I am as a person now than
who I thought I was on drugs. So eric makes complete sense when he says
that he was not sure if he loved pattie. He was clouded that whole time
with her and not only that, its also because love is more of a real feeling
than what I got from drugs.
Sure did. By the time Harrison and Clapton were through with her she
couldn’t even balance her own checkbook. In some ways she comes across as a
bit spoiled but when you understand her life and the fact she’d never known
or given any sort of independence until her later years it’s easily
forgiven. Clapton’s behaviour (and to a much lesser extent George’s) was
cruel and misogynistic and taught us all the true meaning of the phrase
“trophy wife”.
I understand what you’re saying, but a couple of thoughts come to mind.
First off, I don’t know for certain, but I would imagine that all those
“players” back then, meaning the men and women who made up that elite-rock
crowd…the rules might have been a bit obscured about who sleeps with who,
etc…especially adding in the drug and alky into the mix. Lots of lines
got crossed in may ways. Secondly, again re: drugs and alky…Eric seems
like a self-admitted different guy now then back then.
I agree totally. Did you read Patti’s book?
Sad that he could not get to that,”sick and tired of being sick and tired”,
for himself or the people that loved him and had to watch him self destruct
but he could do it for a stupid fishing rod. At least he did make it to
recovery but damn if a fishing rod not the oddest catalyst. That just might
piss me off . . .me. . . fishing rod. . . me. . .OK the fishing rod.
do you have entire interview?
This interviewer is respectable. A great listener and conversationalist.
I can’t believe I an commenting in this, but the facf of the matter is that
George was unfaithful to both of his wives; a constant stream of affairs
and one night stands. He abandoned Patti, emotionally and sexually, long
before she left him for Clapton.
I agree with looshia 2002. I don’t belive a thing he says. The male ego is
a funny thing isn’t it. George pulled the same childish nonsense about the
song “something”. Everyone knows that song was about Patti. I think the two
guys got together and wanted to make music together and threw her under the
bus and fix their egos at the same time.
I never get the fuss about him.