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It has been a member in the medical community that she used poppers (Amil nitrate) on a fairly regular basis for "performance reasons". supposedly this started in the MGM days when movies awake and actors with others and put them to sleep with barbiturates. Should this not be mentioned in the article? John D Rowe MD (talk) 02:22, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@EEng That whole poppers story comes from page 73 and 74 of I Loved Lucy: My Friendship with Lucille Ball by Lee Tannen. It has since become WP:TABLOID fodder such as People Magazine and The Advocate The LGBTQ press loves it because both poppers and Lucy are a thing in the gay community. That story has now been exploited in a questionable autopsy analysis for entertainment program on Autopsy: The Last Hours of.... In my opinion, the medical opinion is weak (there's no way to prove the cardiac issues in the autopsy report which never mentioned poppers were caused or related to alleged poppers use) and it all hinges on a story by Tannen where Ball allegedly used poppers. To me this is not really provable and is all highly speculative and based on a story from a tell all biography published years after the actress died when she could not refute the story. Not to mention WP:UNDUE content to include in wikipedia's entry on her. I would not support including it because it's all low quality tabloid fodder.4meter4 (talk) 16:23, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Plus, I don't understand why the amyl nitrate would have to be "illicit". It's a common pharmaceutical -- any doctor or pharmacist could have supplied it to her completely on the up-and-up. EEng16:47, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
level-4 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
