Shelley Long (Cheers actor) rushed to UCLA Medical Center

Created: 11/26/2004 2:04 PM MST - Updated: 11/26/2004 2:13 PM MST



LOS ANGELES - The New York Post is reporting actress Shelley Long was taken to UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles apparently after taking an overdose of painkillers.

Long was apparently depressed over the breakup of her marriage. She was admitted to the hospital on November 16th and was discharged Tuesday.

Long had been married to securities broker Bruce Tyson for 22 years. They are in the midst of a divorce. Her friends say she had been sad in recent months because of the split.

Long is best known for the role she played as the bubbly blond waitress in "Cheers.". She has also starred in several movies in the past 20 years. Among her film credits: "The Money Pit", "The Brady Bunch Movie", "The Santa Trap" and "Dr. T & the Women."

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tongue-in-cheek.

I would never say something like that seriously.

But, in a free country, cold is allowed.

And so is "acting like an ass".

What's "tongue-in-cheek" about wishing someone had bumped herself off?

It is absurdism.

run over your dog or something?...Yikes.

Brutal, in fact.

Hope you got the reaction you wanted.

But it will cause others to judge you for your callowness.

I think some days the biggest problem with the internet is everyone thinks they are a comedian.

I have read things on DU, particularly in the last few weeks, that I would think belong on Free Republic.

But of course, people are just joking when they say cruel things and laugh at the suffering of others.

lest ye be judged.

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I think we have a winner here, folks.

to say something that mean.

and peace...

who doesn't?

Many people suffer clinical depression in silence. Except for a few celebrities and the occasional sensationalist cases (must be murder involved such as "Andrea Yates" or someone killing his entire family then himself (murder-suicide) to get the whorish Main Stream Media's attention.

May she find quality mental health assistance and find peace with her life situation.

Many of us do care about those struggling with life's challenges.

:-)

A washed up actress took a few pills...maybe she is hurting...maybe she is just looking for attention. No!!! an actress that can't land a role would never do that!!! Who knows? I don't know what's behind this, but the jury is still out...And, like I said, nobody died here folks.

Hope you never feel that bad.

I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Otherwise, why don't you leave this thread alone? Nope, you want to hang around and argue.

Now, who's looking for attention?

on suicide. Yes, taking pills may have been a "cry for help" but also she might have wanted to end it there and then. We don't know.

What I do know from having earned a Masters in Psychology is that people who ATTEMPT suicide should not be dismissed as insincere. She now has an increased chance of not only attempting suicide again but ALSO completing the task.

Yes, this is more problematic than if she had taken her life because those who genuinely care about her must bond together to assist her in a path that will alleviate her depression.

I say damn the people who make light of someone attempting to end their life ... for any ONE person or for ANY reason.

They must have no shame or sense of personal integrity. :(

It is obvious that she is in pain. I hope she is able to find the peace that many of us deserve.

Now, THAT is horrible.

who are you to condemn and ridicule a "washed-up actress"?
even the poorest (in spirit if not wealth) among us deserves compasson. or is that asking too much of you?

Your point is moot.

What is your obsession with Shelley Long? Do you have no heart or are you intent on disrupting this thread?

n/t

:eyes:

When I said I wasn't serious, that was enough. I didn't expect everyone to have a taste for absurdity. But, I was forced to clarify.
When I read that article, yesterday, I said a little prayer for her. I have no problem with her personally.

Sorry about the hijacking. It wasn't intentional.

Poor baby. Now, I am asking you nicely to leave this thread and let those of us who want to discuss SHELLEY LONG discuss this situation without you trying to disrupt. Please.

nm

it is telling.

rrreear.

Do you need some help? It's beyond my ability to help you through your problems, so please find someone who can.

Are you TRYING to get banned from DU?

The naive or unconscious attribution of one's own feelings, attitudes, or desires to others.

The People magazine crowd getting all het up about a non story story.

WTF settle down folks. Who the fuck cares? Hey ya wanna get all forked up about an issue....my 23 year old son joined the Marines. Meaning in a few short months he will be cannon fodder for Halliburton. I am real. I post on DU. You actually have a connection with a person that is fucking losing it. Sorry I am not a washed up actress from CHEERS.

Now get forked up about that.

Hi Indigo.

My heart is big enough to care about more than one person at once.

I hope and pray for your son's safety.

This must be enormously hard for you and your family.

There's some serious tragedy out there to focus your grieving on.

Precisely.

You wished her dead, and then you tried to turn this thread into victimization of you. Poor you. Now, go away. :eyes:

and come down from your pedestal of jugment, you will see that.

Don't bother appologizing...it's not necessary.

I have your back. This thread is seriously forked up. My little Ben aged 23 is gonna see a lot of shit that he isn't prepared for. That is a mother fucking tragedy. I have this picture of him aged three hands on hips wearing red cowboy boots. I love that photo, I love my first born child. Shelley Long can kiss my ass.

Oh God please watch over my little B boy.

get a sense of perspective. Yes, you! I've had family recently return from Iraq. You are NOT alone.

If we choose to feel a little empathy for an actress that we remember fondly from cheers, don't go "pissing on our sentiments" just because you also have SERIOUS problems.

Yes, you make a point, how bout making it on another thread.

She may be what some radical right wingers call "an elitist washed-up actress" but STILL she's a human being. And as such, please either start a new thread on your son and/or stop screwing up our thoughts and hijacking THIS THREAD.

With respect and all serious intent.

are you an elitist, too?

One that thinks some deserve peace, others don't?

I'll never join your group. Don't worry.

It's as free as some people want you to be.

I don't know what your post said, because it's been deleted, but the whole thread looks like a chatroom. If you're good with whatever you said, and you then defended it as "absurdism," be happy.

But, wasn't the Shelley Long suicide attempt the subject of this one?

What I find interesting is that her Diane character on "Cheers" had a history of mental instability, and, remember, at one point, spent time in a psychiatric hospital. Funny how fiction has a way of turning into sad fact.

No one should ever feel that bad. Long-time marriages breaking up - that's a rough one.

What a despicable thing for anyone to say about another human.

I rest my case...find another witch to burn.

Sums up my sentiments about you. Although I think a diagnosis of narcissism is appropriate, I can't help you through it.

she should have killed herself years ago.

So all is forgiven, right?

/sarcasm

Hell, anything can be forgiven so long as you follow it with, just kidding. Or just being an absurdist.

Maybe it's just a sign of or ironic times. Like shows on VH1 where people who were never famous rag on those who were formally famous.

Nov 26, 5:20 PM EST

'Cheers' Alum Long Briefly Hospitalized

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Cheers" alum Shelley Long was back home after being briefly hospitalized because she took a dose of medication to treat back pain and the drug made her ill, her manager said Friday.

"Shelley took an extra pain pill for her back, which she hurt when she fell on the set of `Cheers' many years ago," Martin Mickelson told The Associated Press. "She had a reaction to it ... but she is now home and she is fine."

The actress, who played the prim and neurotic Diane Chambers on the hit 1980s sitcom, was treated overnight sometime within the last two weeks at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center, Mickelson said.

"She had a nice Thanksgiving," he added.

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Flamefest. Please repost this in the Lounge where it would be better anyway.