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Margaret Cho Introduces An Odd Ode In Video Form To Friend Anna Nicole Smith

By Amy Feinstein
Published on: 23:04 PST, Apr 18, 2016

Margaret Cho has written a song and released a video on her new album, American Myth, called “Anna Nicole,” to pay tribute to her friend, Anna Nicole Smith and tell the story of the last days and struggles of Anna Nicole Smith. A main point of the song and video was the kiss the two friends shared on the Anna Nicole Show on E!. Though Cho says that the video and song are a tribute to Anna Nicole Smith, others are questioning the delivery of the message as odd and disrespectful to Anna Nicole Smith.

According to The Inquisitr,Margaret Cho had a strange incident recently doing stand-up in New Jersey. Fans thought she was high or drunk, but Cho insists that she was just jet-lagged. She did a comedy set on rape, and when people in the club walked out in protest, she yelled at them that they were entitled, and she would make sure they didn’t get their money back.

People Magazine spoke with Margaret Cho about the final days of her friend Anna Nicole Smith, and how much guilt she felt about the death of her son. With that, she felt like it was finally the right time to honor her over-the-top friend with an equally over-the-top video. Cho explains that Smith felt somewhat responsible that her son had become a heavy prescription drug user like herself, and ironically, it is what killed both of them.

“So it has to do with some postpartum depression, some overwhelming guilt that her son had died. They both had an issue with prescription painkillers and different drugs like that. I don’t know if there’s anybody that’s necessarily at fault. Of course, we’re all guilty. Anybody that’s close to her is guilty, if anyone.”

Cho explained that when Anna Nicole Smith’s son Daniel died, it took authorities four hours to pry Smith off of his body. She thinks the death of Daniel, combined with postpartum depression, did Smith in. Cho says that she hopes that, wherever Anna Nicole Smith is now, she is finally happy and has what she needs.

E! Online explains that, though it has been nine years since Anna Nicole Smith died, it is still very fresh to Margaret Cho. Cho says that the video she put together for the song “Anna Nicole Smith” celebrates their kiss on the Christmas special for the Anna Nicole Smith Show.

“This is a wonderful collaboration with Garrison Starr and it’s a requiem for Anna Nicole Smith that is as beautiful and quirky as she was.”

Cho believes that Anna Nicole Smith was one of those people who is just too good for this world. Cho believes that, after the death of Anna Nicole Smith, people should take a look at how everyone deals with addiction and depression, which Smith grappled with. When Smith died, Cho reached out at that time and wrote a tribute to her.

“So pale and blonde, with this incredible soft serve ice cream vulnerability, like ripe summer peaches hot from the sun, or rice pudding made from grains boiled for over a day on the stove; Anna Nicole Smith was the goddess of all things that are sweet and enveloping.”

But not everyone feels that Margaret Cho’s video is a fitting tribute to Anna Nicole Smith, and Fishwrapper in particular found it to be offensive. The video itself is offensive, but the lines of the song almost seem to poke fun at addiction and struggles with weight loss.

“I hope you feel thin, I hope they let you have your Klonopin.”

Hmmm, considering that Klonopin was one of the drugs that Smith struggled with, that may be inappropriate. In the videos, people in clownish wigs gobble up handfuls of pills. The tribute should have been about how much she loved life and her children, but instead, it seems to be how much she liked drugs.

Do you think the video is a nice tribute, or did Margaret Cho seem to make fun of Anna Nicole Smith’s addiction problems?

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