David blamed her for Rick's being on the road the majority of the time. But, it seemed to me, that Kris wanted Rick to stay in California and be an actor, continue making movies, not be a musician. About a year and a half after he died, I went into the hospital. It was very emotional. I think the expression of grief came out in this way.
Psychologists point out that grief has many faces, many expressions.
Anesthetizing the emotional pain inside us with pills and alcohol is one of the most common ways of dealing with grief. Just think about the phrase most often used to describe being drunk. Feeling no pain. And perhaps it tells us a lot that when Kris wrote her 230-page autobiography and published it in 1997, she titled it Out of My Mind. Both biographers have underplayed the part Rick may have played in his own destiny, both in his marriage and his career.