she sounds absolutely honest and sincere

Reading the book now. I love Warren and his music so much I named my only child, my son, Warren. The man was troubled for sure, a genius, with a voice like no other. So glad I got to see him live a couple of times. Thank you to Letterman for his support and devoting that last show to Warren. Wow.

Jackson Browne is quite the empathetic human...he also tried very hard to help David Crosby during his worst drug addiction days, including chartering private jets to take him to rehab, paying up front for rehab, and then having Crosby skip out on day 1 or 2. So he has done a lot for many friends and family...

Crystal, my name is Jean, I live in Batemans Bay NSW Australia. I'm 66 years old today. I desperately wanted to at least read, yet alone, own your book. Today for my Birthday my gorgeous daughter surprised me with a copy that she ordered from America, to hopefully arrive on or before my Birthday. It came late yesterday. Then my son told me he was getting it for me for Christmas. How lucky am I. As I haven't read your book yet, I can't comment but I just can't wait to get stuck into it. It would be silly to say I loved Warren, as I wasn't that familiar with him but thanks to YouTube and a growing appreciation of the Genius that was your Warren thankyou for opening old wounds and a genuine love of Warren from you. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. Always strive to be happy. 🥴

I've read Crystal's book at least three times now and I'm still stunned by how brilliantly well written and brutally honest it is.

RIP Warren.
You were an American Master Entertainer.

"We made it to the Front Porch Old Girl "

That line at the end about Old Girl... Wow. I'm speechless...

All of us old drunks used the blackout in order to escape blame and pretend to forget the bad things we did to the ones we loved .

Thank you for the courage and dedication to write so movingly and openly about your personal life and experiences.  No one else could have shared so intimately and compassionately the details of a brilliant and flawed genius.

David Letterman helped out by giving him work filling in with the band on his show...he appeared on Dave's show and talked about finding out about his terminal status...watch it.  It's good

The first time I saw this...If there was one person I would have enjoyed having a conversation with, it would have been Warren Zevon. He sat right next to me (on my left) on a flight from Chicago to Albany in 1992 maybe 1993, I was headed home on military leave. I saw his equipment being loaded on the AA flight. Being heavily into music, I knew someone was about to board the aircraft. It was Warren. Next to me, he made a phone call from the aircraft phone on the back of the seat to speak to his Wife and his daughter. As I recall, he explained to his daughter "he loved her and he would be home soon". He asked the stewardess how long the flight was. I wanted to whistle Warewolves of London as he was seated next to me (like---hey...I know who you are...), but out of respect, I refrained. That's a memory I will never forget. May he sleep peacefully.

Great insight of an amazing artist......Flaws and all, what a complex man. I will be buying the book.

Don't let us get sick.

The work described in the Big Book of alcoholics anonymous is a beautiful life process . A solution . Continuous, complete, NeverEnding .
Warren drank at the end because that was his only solution .There's a big , huge difference between recovered and recovering .
Godspeed my brother .🎸😎

Thank you so much for posting this. I always wondered what happened to Crystal and she seems to me just a she was way back when.   Then and now she was and is a real person with a heart of gold.  I wish she'd been my wife, lol. She loves unconditionally and I wish her a long and wonderful life.

I asked him where he got the idea for SUZIE LIGHTNING.  He said, "I was usually high when I wrote those songs, so I really couldn't tell you."

Whew, not for the faint of heart.

MIISS YOU WARREN.

It was a mark of courage on Warren's part that he not only gave his blessing, but insisted that Crystal be unafraid to tell the very ugly truth about his very dark side, from the drug abuse to admitted cruelty. One of the things that #MeToo showed was the deep hypocrisy of powerful men who not only did so much worse but fought hard to keep up a deceptive image of being good guys, and destroyed many a woman's livelihood to maintain the lie.
You can still think Zevon could be a cruel and selfish SOB and still recognize his talent and how hard he at least tried to do better. Lost in his infamous "Enjoy Every Sandwich" quote to Letterman was something else he said in that famous last interview. "I think I choose a certain path, and lived like Jim Morrison and lived 30 more years. You make choices and you have to live with the consequences. There are always consequences."

Lastly, I still remember an NPR interview with Crystal where she said that she hoped people recognized that, flaws and all, the picture of Warren cradling his twin grandsons at the end of the book summed up who her ex-husband truly was.