a “30+ year hard drug use” personal life until the day he died-leaving us with knowingly he only kept a cuss jar and meat jar to fine you for eating or spewing?
Granted (given the daily unfolding details) their “friends” actually become all those in on what people delving in situations like such, are into. And these people that (think/thought) they were friends of his obviously didn’t know, or didn’t care or knew or at least heard but couldn’t do anything about it other than keep his secrets.
(Given that dual-natured Gemini is a mental masters at deception) that’s IF they even knew.
All that said, “pathetic” was a bad choice of wording. “Sad,’ as myself and many are, would suffice, however. Just, “sad.”