![]() ![]() ![]() The New Yorker reported that "Pryor regularly beat up women." He also had a thing for guns, shooting up both a car and a fish tank. ![]() That, combined with the drugs and drinking, wasn't exactly a good match. His life was never the same again.Īnd while Pryor had a lot of good qualities, he also was still fighting the demons of his childhood and was prone to fits of rage. It didn't help that he was wearing a polyester shirt, as it melted to his skin. He ran out into the street to get help and ended up in the hospital. According to the 2013 Showtime special Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic, Pryor had just been watching a scene on TV about the Buddhist monk who set himself on fire to protest the war in Vietnam. That's how messed up Pryor's life was - the idea of him burning himself freebasing cocaine was more palatable than what really happened. Ironically, setting himself on fire revived it." But as Pryor's biographer Saul notes, "On June 9, 1980, Pryor doused himself with a bottle of 151 proof rum and set himself on fire - not by accident, as he first claimed, but by choice. People wrote at the time, "Los Angeles police say he was burned by an explosion while 'freebasing' cocaine." The publication said "Pryor's lawyer denies the report, claiming the injuries were caused by burning rum." The attorney was technically right in that burning rum caused Pryor's injuries. In 1980, Pryor suffered severe burns and nearly died after setting himself on fire. ![]()
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