Celebrity train wrecks fascinate and appal. But could they be our fault?
From Charlie Sheen to Kanye West, watching a star in meltdown shouldn’t be a spectator sport
Nine years ago, I flew to Detroit for what had by then become an international spectator sport: watching Charlie Sheen have a mental breakdown. In the previous months, Sheen had gone from “beloved bad boy cheeky chappie” to shattered wreck. He posted unhinged webcam videos in which he claimed to have “tiger blood”, and these proved so popular that he took the show on the road, in a tour titled Violent Torpedo Of Truth/Defeat Is Not An Option.
As a child, my parents took me
