Have you ever been really affected by the death of a celebrity? Is this normal?

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I feel so heartbroken at Ray Liotta passing away. My husband and friends must think I'm crackers but I genuinely have been fond of him for years and years. I always hoped I would meet him one day and believed

Chester Bennington from Linkin Park

River Phoenix - I felt he knew me and I still think about him, especially around hallowe’en when he died.

Also, not a celeb as such but a well known showjumper Tim Stockdale. He was such a nice normal guy and did the commentary with Claire Balding. One day he was at the peak of his career, then a social media message that he wasn’t well, then he was gone. I still can’t believe it, it makes me sad that the sport goes on without him.

Sean Lock and Emma Chambers - every time I see them on TV I think it's so awful. We watch 8 out of 10 cats does Countdown a few times a week and think Sean was brilliant. Paul Ritter and Alan Rickman too.

Me too. Seeing him on TV or hearing him on radio can still make me tear up. Such a loss of such a funny, kind, and generous man. I think the public never really knew how much he quietly did for others.

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The hysteria around Princess Diana was absolutely ridiculous. I was only around 12 when she died and I remember crying in my parents bedroom, it was such a weird time. But I did it privately because at the end of the day she was a public figure, she had many faults just like the rest of us and we didn't know her personally. But as for the people in the crowds on the day of her funeral screaming and wailing in front of two children who had lost their mother, someone should have told them to just shut the FUCK up!

I was so sad when Whitney Houston died. A huge part of my youth.
Same with George Michael

@FuckingNoise I agree. I was 14 when she died and had lost my dad 18 months earlier. It was ridiculous.

I know one of Kirsty McColl's sons and I still get upset thinking about her death. It was a crime.
She pushed him out of the way to save him and was hit. At one point he was swimming in her blood.

Elizabeth Sladen hit me. Sarah Jane was my era Doctor Who and I loved that RTD brought her back and she was so great.
I got to meet her soon after and she was so lovely.
It seemed to come out of nowhere when she died.
My entire generation will be distraught when Tom Baker goes.

I loved her poems ❤️

The morning I heard George Harrison had died, I walked up to the school where I worked, with "Here Comes The Sun " playing in my head, and tears streaming.

Definitely I remember when John Pertwee died gutted and liz Sladen.

I've got a big picture if him on my wall so the first and last thing I see every day is his beautiful smile. And oddly enough I walk past his childhood home daily on the school run. Somehow makes me feel close to him. I know that sounds stupid but it's true.

I remember Kurt Cobain's death very well. Although I personally wasn't affected, it seemed to hit particularly hard people of around my age - I was 21 at the time. The agony aunt columns and problem pages of various publications for months afterwards were filled with letters from people who had enormous difficulty getting past his death. I didn't get it and I found the whole business extraordinary.

When Paul Ritter died, I felt that I had never seen such an outpouring of affection for him and his work than for anyone else. Reading the tributes had me laughing and in tears almost in equal measure.

Unless you knew them personally, there's absolutely no reason to mourn deeply. Be sad for a bit then move on. Anything else is weird.

Leonard Cohen. I knew he was old and that he could pass at any time but it was still a shock. I'm 65 and I've been a devoted fan since I was 14. I grew up with that voice, he was my comfort, my consolation and my teacher.

You don't get to tell me how I should feel

Its hard to tell people how to feel. Often these are new emotions. No matter how I imagined it would be to lose my father those feelings were new and needed processing. There was no imagining took me close to the pain.

so when a celeb, someone you admire, followed and perhaps even met! You just don’t know how you’ll feel.

Oh god yes, I saw him in concert. It was sheer perfection.

That's quite cold. A lot of people have had their lives touched in deep ways by celebrities for their own reasons. I would suggest it's more weird to not feel much when your, for example, childhood hero passes. Or to notgenuinely feel the great loss of the future that someone died young never had.

Well said.

Can I add my voice to Paul Ritter? Seeing him in the Friday Night Dinner 10 year anniversary, ravaged by treatment, and when it was broadcast he had already gone broke my heart.

I still can’t get over Liam Payne I’ve loved one direction since I was 4 years old I’m nearly 18 now