fucking Stephen Fry

Yet here you are, Making a post about him 😂

I was prescribed it post major surgery and seriously don’t see the big deal, not something I even told people lol. Codeine is seen as a bigger deal in some countries and I don’t see people bleating on about that. I agree with you OP. OxyContin made me sleepy and took the pain away enough to sleep, I certainly wasn’t walking off into rooms that didn’t exist like he is implying. He made a choice to take it before going on stage 🙃

I admire him. And am very sorry he hurt himself so badly.

Thank you

I'm sick of self important middle class women thinking that their opinion regarding a celebrity (with a far greater intellect than them) and an article in the Guardian should be publicly declared like they're doing us all a great service.

Reading stuff from a card is hardly unique though is it? If that's the worst criticism that can be levelled at him, he's doing ok.

I don't think you are taking into account how celebrities careers work. They do interviews to keep their profile up. He would have been invited onto the R2 show by their producers because his injury and recovery would be of interest to their listeners.

The guardian would have picked it up from there and likely never even spoke to Stephen about publishing it, nor the angle they were going to put on it.

Is it age you have a problem with or is it men or do they have to be combined to set you off?

What an absolutely nasty hate thread!

The drug is actually Oxycodone, and it’s available in the UK. It’s a semi synthetic opioid painkiller and OxyContin is just the time controlled release version. It’s highly addictive and widely abused both here and in the USA, which I assume was his point. But as PP’s here have pointed out, if it’s managed properly it’s an effective painkiller.

Those Netflix docos have created a lot of panic about Oxy. It's really not uncommon for opiods to be used for acute pain.

I was prescribed it last year after a fall resulting in a broken bone. So was my almost 80yo mum. She didn't like the way it made her feel and stopped taking it. I took it for a few days and was fine.

The doses were way, WAY less than what was being routinely handed out during the crisis in the US. From memory, 5mg vs the 30mg, 60mg and more I heard mentioned in the Netflix docos.

What a spectacular reading comprehension failure.

I'm just sick of pointless old men who think their lives matter tbh

Nothing like a bit of ageism to cheer me up for the day !

it was prescribed to him after the fall from the stage that saw him break a leg, his hips, pelvis, and some ribs.

fanny.

seems an excessive amount of rage for a harmless comment. But then I like Stephen Fry and I think his life matters, however old or masculine he is.

The reason it is noteworthy is that Stephen Fry has bipolar disorder and has regularly self-medicated with drugs like Oxycodone, therefore it was risky for him to have been prescribed them. He has talked about this quite openly. However, he had to have some sort of pain relief and Oxycodone is not that strong.

He was also being interviewed by Claudia Winkleman, presumably he had to engage in conversation with her and no doubt she asked about his recent accident.

The workplace sounds as though it was very unsafe, he may be able to sue.

Young celebs seem to be allowed to talk endlessly about their mental health issues. Why shouldn't the old ones?

YABU. He's a nice man, very polite. There are far less interesting celebrities taking up column inches. You don't have to read the article if you don't like him.

If someone on here was so insulting about a "pointless old woman" there would be outrage and rightly so.

i have zero respect for your attitude, it's disgraceful.

This thread and its subject matter is a car crash.

Have no idea how the OP could have conceived it, nor do I want to know.

Not pointless old women then? One can assume in your limited mind their lives do matter? I can say with 99.99% certainty that a similar story would have passed without comment had it been a woman. MN hypocrisy is breathtaking..

😂🤣😇

www.theguardian.com/music/2023/dec/09/adele-seasonal-depression-sad-los-angeles-california

Here's another guardian that's currently on their page. Do you think similar about Adele or is it ok for her to talk about equally unimportant stuff because she's a woman and younger than Stephen Fry?

No idea why you're so riled up OP? They've just done an article from comments from an interview- he didn't shout 'this is newsworthy, the papers must report this'. Just because you choose not to like him (whether that's because of him himself or just because he's a man of a certain age) doesn't mean others aren't interested.

It's also fine repeating that you're not ageist, your earlier comments suggest you are- even if you weren't aware. You might need to self reflect on this one.

I love Stephen Fry. His performance in ‘Jeeves and Wooster’ years ago is enough to make me thankful to him. He was also brilliant in Black Adder.

He has struggled with mental health issues, but has always been transparent about them. I didn’t know about his accident until this thread but it sounds horrific and falling such a distance, he was lucky to escape with his life.

People who have met him always say how friendly and personable he is.

Why are we having a go at Stephen rather than the Guardian? It is they that have dug out this snippet of information from an interview, it isn't as if Stephen went to them to tell them all about it.

And why the shock, Oxycodone (Oxycontin being an american brand name) is used here and thank fuck for it - if I'd got those injuries, I'd want it too. My best friend is only functional some days because of Oxycodone, her pain levels on a day to day basis are horrific and she uses it for breakthrough pain. If drugs like this weren't available, some folk wouldn't have lives worth living.

I wouldn't be sat here waffling on without Buprenorphine, another (lower risk, lower strength) opioid - long may it continue to work but as my spine is going to continue falling apart and my joints continue to deteroriate, that is unlikely.

Many people do. I had my leg amputated at the hip this year and spent a great deal of time in hospital and there were a lot of people who refused opiates.