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Remember Chris Rose with the Times Picayune?
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:06 am
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:06 am
NOLA
Dude really fell off the deep end after Katrina.
Evidently he became a alcoholic, now spends his time living in a tent....
Dude really fell off the deep end after Katrina.
Evidently he became a alcoholic, now spends his time living in a tent....
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Even as he shouldered the burden of a city’s collective trauma – thousands of readers reached out to him – he was bedeviled by alcohol, depression, anxiety and an addiction to prescription painkillers.
He left the paper in 2009, then bounced around to other local media outlets. He hosted a French Quarter walking tour. He waited tables. And he drank – a lot.
In 2021, following multiple hospitalizations and a near-fatal crisis in a Kenner motel, he was diagnosed with end-stage cirrhosis. He’d nearly succeeded in drinking himself to death.
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Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:10 am to Hangover Haven
He was a nut but he was a good journalist back in the days when the Times - Picayune had a few.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:11 am to Hangover Haven
That's wild. He really was pretty front and center in the NO media for a while.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:13 am to Hangover Haven
I assume nothing good ever happens in a Kenner motel.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:18 am to geauxpurple
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He was a nut but he was a good journalist back in the days when the Times - Picayune had a few.
After Katrina his popularity really took off... He was part of Fox 8 for a little while and wrote the Book "1 Dead in the Attic"...
This post was edited on 7/17/25 at 9:23 am
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:27 am to Hangover Haven
Not a bad setup
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:55 am to Hangover Haven
Yes. I remember that book. I think it was mostly a collection of his Katrina articles.
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