So is Marilyn. Both women were to some extent killed as a result of their celebrity, in Diana's case by trying to outrun the paparazzi. Celebrity also changes your relationships with your children and your parents. Anybody totally public is prevented from enjoying basic human relationships. It's an impossible line to negotiate, especially since contemporary Americans substitute celebrities for gods and royalty.
Stars are increasingly the sacrificial objects of the American public.
Once I was eating in a restaurant with the movie actor Robert Ryan when he had his clothing ripped off by some admiring fan. Ryan was not allowed to enjoy a simple meal in public because this fan felt he owned him. Ultimately, this kind of proprietorship could could result in ritual slaughter, with the flesh of the celebrity scattered to the four winds and taken home by the public as relics. So the dynamics of celebrity played a part in the genesis of your third play, Nobody Dies on Friday . Then I read John Strasberg's quite bitter writings about his father.