They say love is blind. Is it really so, or do people fear to acknowledge certain people as bad news and try to give them the benefit of the doubt? How is it possible for some to fail to see the negative aspects of certain figures while everyone condemns them? Is love so blind that people can’t make the necessary decisions to distance themselves from toxic personalities?
Well, it seems like love can be blind that even though everyone foresaw Nancy Spungen as awful news, including Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, Sid Vicious decided to ignore everyone and go till the end. Ultimately, he was found dead in a hotel room after Spungen got mysteriously murdered.
The two youngsters were probably the last two people that should have gotten together as they brought out the crazy and unfiltered sides of each other. While Vicious became the image of ’70s punk rock by becoming the bassist of Sex Pistols, Nancy Spungen was going through some mentally challenging times. Although this sounded like a bad idea, the two decided to get together.
Nancy had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was 15. On top of that, she had been expelled from college and had decided to move to London, where she crossed paths with Vicious. Their relationship was already in shambles as they were constantly doing drugs, and there were rumors about domestic abuse. After the Sex Pistols split, the couple moved to New York, where they spent their time doing drugs until one day, Vicious found Nancy dead underneath the bathroom sink.
Everyone, including the police, blamed Vicious for killing his girlfriend, and he was charged with Nancy’s murder. However, it remains a mystery whether he committed the crime, as according to Kilmister, they were terrible for each other.
“It upset me when Sid died because he never had a f*cking chance,” shared Kilmister in the Art Desk Q&A that he did in 2011. “He was a deprived youth, a depraved youth, and then that f*cking bitch Nancy Spungen got hold of him, and he never had a chance after that. If ever there was anybody I met who was such a f*cking arsehole, that was her.”
He continued, “She just killed him and he killed her, probably. We’ll never know who killed who in that bedroom in the Chelsea Hotel, New York, in 1978. It didn’t sound like Sid because he was devoted to her. The only way I could think of it was she’d been f*cking somebody else, and he found out. I could see it then. All the same, I don’t know.”
Although Kilmister left the door open for different scenarios of what could have happened, Vicious had initially confessed that he did it after getting arrested. He had even said they had a fight and stabbed her, but he never intended to kill her. However, it was later announced that he wasn’t in the best mental state, as he later withdrew those statements and claimed he was asleep.
Kilmister believed that Sid Vicious was devoted to Nancy Spungen, which he kind of proved by attempting suicide following her murder. After being taken to the hospital, he tried jumping from a window and shouted his desire to be with Nancy. Four months after her death, Vicious died from a drug overdose, and the NYPD closed the case on the couple forever. They were only together for two years, and in the end, they both lost their lives, so even if love is blind, maybe consider the advice that people around you give to avoid a tragic ending like Sid and Nancy.
