The New York medical examiner made a determination on L’Wren Scott’s death: it is now officially a suicide. No foul play, no big conspiracy. Just an accomplished, talented and loved woman who thought that self-harm was her only way out. I think that’s why so many people have been paying attention to this story – while we understand the idea that L’Wren was having financial problems, people have come back from worse, and her suicide just came out of nowhere. As we know now, she was planning on pulling the plug on her fashion line this week, and she was scheduled to make that announcement on Wednesday. But I still believe that she could have come back from it – many designers do.
The NY Times’ Cathy Horyn, a tower of fashion journalism, wrote a lovely piece on L’Wren and what she was really like. The picture is of a woman who was very giving, very capable, very discreet and very controlled. She was never silly, never an over-sharer. Horyn wrote at the end:
After my partner died in early February, L’Wren was the first to call and send a note. When we finally spoke, two weeks later, I was surprised to hear how rundown and discouraged she sounded. She spoke of production problems, forcing her to cancel her fall show. Again, I urged her to put her health first.
Besides, I told her: “You’re entrepreneurial — that’s your strength. You’ll have new ideas. Just give yourself a break now.”
I sent her a text on March 12, checking in. She didn’t reply, but that wasn’t unusual. I learned since her death that she was planning to close her business, with an announcement this week. Still, as painful as the decision must have been for her, I wouldn’t draw any conclusions from it about her state of mind. Nor should any credence be given to reports of a breakup with Mick. It’s rubbish.
She was with friends on Sunday night, and, yes, they were deeply concerned about her, but, no, they didn’t think she would do something so desperate. Not L’Wren.
Her death is inexplicable to me, and it makes me angry, too. Angry because it’s the loss of a vital, intelligent woman, and angry because, this once, I don’t want her to be a mystery to me.
As for Mick Jagger and how he’s dealing… the stories are all over the place. It seems like his Rolling Stones bandmates are worried about him, and it sounds like his family is worried too. That didn’t stop the NY Post from publishing a really harsh piece about how the Stones considered L’Wren to be a “Yoko”. The Post’s sources claim that Charlie Watts and Keith Richards were basically like, “L’Wren can’t come on tour with us this time, Mick.” The sources also claim that Mick’s adult children didn’t get along with L’Wren at all and they found her “controlling.”
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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