I'm always screaming♥

Besides, he was only 31. If you think someone is finished cooking at 31 you have a big storm coming. You don't know the kind of person he would've become if he had the chance to actually live his life instead of just the beginning of it.

Here’s to a child star, put on a stage 

Where everyone saw every flaw and mistake

Yes, here’s to a child star, in a zoo cage 

Poked at and prodded and goaded to shame

You deserved more.

Not more money or fame or riches 

But more support, more kindness, more resources to be better, to get better 

To deal with the hurt and pressures that come with Fame 

Fame when you sell your name before you know what it stands for 

Fame where you become someone to everyone before you have your own full identity

Fame when you’re a paycheque for some washed up execs 

Who don’t care who you are or where you go as long as you serve them for the length of your contract 

When death comes, we hope for peace

Not a drugged addled death on the ground in a country that’s not your home, 

where tabloids identify you to the public by your tattoos before you own son gets the news

Before he can grieve the public balks over your body like some sort of show 

Why do they get to know? 

Why do they get to know how you died when they barely knew how you lived? 

How you loved?

How you cared?

Here’s to a child star that brought us joy

Who gave all he had to his fans with his boys

Yes here’s to sweet Liam, may his demons lay to rest 

While his dreams live on in those that are left

In your memory, let us vow

To stop treating children as consumable goods

To stop using them for our entertainment and casting them out when we are done 

In your honour, may we vow 

To give therapy and love to those struggling to return to a “normal life”

That they can live without self medicating with drugs, sex, and false platitudes from their previous stardom

In memory of you, those that came before, and those that go on

May WE do better, be better, love better. 

Here’s to a child star, gone too soon.