![]() Peggy said she feels more comfortable believing that Janis tripped rather than overdosed. ![]() “I’m sure the fact that she had heroin and other things in her system didn’t help her any,” Peggy said. “Maybe if she hadn’t been loaded and on something, she might have been able to struggle up. The impact broke her nose, channeling blood into her throat and cutting off her blood supply. Peggy’s theory is that Janis’ heel caught the shag loops in the hotel’s carpet, tripping her face-first onto a night table. “How could she have overdosed and then walked out to the lobby and walked back?” Caserta wrote in her memoir “You don’t stand up and then lie down straight to die.” “She was lying on the floor, elongated, and that’s not what happens when you shoot an overdose,” Caserta told Vulture. However, she peeped in and saw Janis’ foot ‘sticking out at the end of a bed.’ Caserta didn’t want to go into Peggy’s room as she didn’t want to see her body. When Peggy got to Janis’ hotel room, the police hadn’t cordoned it off. It has to be the gay thing.” Peggy opines that Janis died due to an injury caused by a fall Sam certainly shot as much dope with her as I did. “I think the gay thing just tipped the scale to where I got more flack for it all. ![]() “He and Janis used to shoot heroin and talk late into the night and it was just so much fun,” Caserta said. “All three of us shot dope together many times and it was fun, I mean, we didn’t do it because we hated it.”Ĭaserta feels that people blamed her not because of the drug use but due to her relationship with Janis. “Those people weren’t open to being gay, and yes, it bothered them that they know what my position was with Janis,” Peggy said. She said that two guys from Big Brother and the Holding Company did heroin with Janis long before she joined the party. Peggy didn’t deny that she did drugs with Janis but stated that other people also shot heroin with the artist. I never saw a needle outside a doctor’s office until I met her.” Peggy Carta and Janis Joplin at Woodstock 1969 They saw me as somebody that was playing very dangerously with her, and I understand that. “Janis’s inner circle knew that I didn’t turn her on to heroin. Janis and Caserta met sorting clothes at a hippie store in the Haight-Ashbury district in 1965.Ĭaserta was blamed for introducing Janis to heroin, but she insisted that Joplin introduced her to drug use. Peggy Caserta opines that she was unfairly blamed for contributing to Janis’ death. So regrets, yes, of course, the regrets we all have - that we lost her.” Peggy Caserta feels she was unjustly blamed for contributing to Janis’ death I wish George hadn’t entered the lobby and I wish she hadn’t chosen that moment to get cigarettes. “I wish that Seth had been there that last night,” Peggy said. “Or that I had been there. “It never occurred to me that he wasn’t going to show up,” Caserta said. “He later claimed that it never occurred to him that I wasn’t going to be there.” Caserta didn’t call to explain her absence Morgan called, but whatever he said reportedly made Janis very upset. Neither showed up: Peggy gave up on the idea after learning of Seth’s involvement, and according to her, Seth missed his plane cheating on Janis. On the Friday before Janis’ death, she was supposed to meet with Peggy and her fiance Seth Morgan for a three-way. She just happened to walk out to get cigarettes and ran into George in the Landmark lobby.” Janis had been clean, though how clean I don’t know. “I called George, Janis’s and my drug dealer, and he was bringing me heroin at the Landmark. She told Vulture that Janis decided to get high after running into her dealer at the Landmark. Peggy Caserta, Janis’ close friend, doubted that the heroin Janis used that night had a higher potency than the batch she was used to. ![]() Other heroin overdoses by her dealer’s customers supported John’s theory. John Cooke opined that Janis had purchased a more potent heroin dosage than the one she was used to. Noguchi found that Janis died of a heroin overdose possibly exacerbated by alcohol. Janis Joplin at her home in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, November 1967 | Photo by Baron Wolman/Getty Images Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi suggested that Janis’s friends removed drugs from her room. The coroner ruled that Janis died due to a heroin overdoseĪuthorities found alcohol in the room, but no drugs, despite the needle marks on Janis’ arm suggesting drug use. Janis instructed her friend Lyndall Erb to organize a party-style wake to honor her memory.Peggy disputes that Janis died due to a heroin overdose and posits that an unfortunate fall caused Joplin’s death.Joplin’s close friend Peggy Caserta feels that people unfairly blamed her for Joplin’s death due to their gay relationship.Janis Joplin had needle marks in her arms and following an autopsy, the coroner attributed her death to a heroin overdose.
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