I am sorry. She was beautiful and had a great voice.
Yes, her singing came from great courage, and invoked enormous energy. Sometimes I think the reason so many performing artists get into drugs is that the energy that pours through them from having millions of people focus on them is literally unbearable. So they turn to drugs to help moderate the effect, and then the drugs take their inevitable course.
People are so very quick to damn. So many people seem to be religious just to have a position from which to pronounce the failings of others, and lick the tasty treat of the idea of them in hell.
When in actuality, they never faced on their darkest day, what the victims of their scorn had to endure for years.
It reminds me of that warning in the Bible: "I know you not."