Celeb News: Sky and Cole of Diiv speak out on drug scandal

LoveInStereo

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The arrest caused countless unpleasant consequences for Smith and Ferreira. Besides the legal hoops they’re still jumping through — court-ordered rehab and regular probationary check-ins for him, anger management classes for her — there’s the seemingly irreparable damage to the couple’s public image. Ferreira lost several modeling jobs and faced widespread accusations of drug addiction, charges she and Smith say are entirely false. Smith still wrestles with profound guilt about the fallout in Ferreira’s life: “Basically I just was stupid. I ****ed up, and it was entirely my fault, and I ****ed up my girlfriend’s life. She literally didn’t do anything wrong. She basically was just a passenger in the car with a person who was out of control for a minute. She got in deep shit… Her career got really ****ed up because everybody thought she was a drug addict, which she’s absolutely not. That’s the worst part of it for me is that I really ****ed her over.”

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Even the decision to fight his addiction didn’t come easy, but Smith says Ferreira weathered the storm with him when others would have cut and run. “It took me a long time to learn my lesson,” he says. “Even right after I got out of jail, I continued to engage in incredibly risky behavior and didn’t even think about it. Another person might have been like, ’You know what? **** you. You ruined my life, and now you’re going to keep doing this same thing over and over?’ But she was just so patient. I think that’s part of what helped me get through it. She was just so good to me.” From Ferreira’s perspective, Smith is being too hard on himself. “I did lose out on a lot of opportunities, but it was my fault,” she says. “I was in the car.”

Ferreira is also of the mind that other people could and should have stepped in to help Smith break his addiction before things got so messy. “Even before [the arrest], I was trying to help him,” she says. “And that was the thing that I found so disgusting about it was nobody else was trying before that. Because that could have been avoided in a lot of ways. It’s not completely his fault.” She seems less upset about Smith’s drug abuse than other people’s failure to step in and do something about it. “It put me in a really weird position,” she says. “Because I want to be his girlfriend, not his mom. You know what I mean? Like, I don’t want him to resent me.”

When Smith enters one of his guilt spirals regarding damage to Ferreira’s career — a subject he returns to nearly as often as online persecution — she always insists that he’s not at fault for other people’s decisions not to work with her. “All I wanted was for him to get better,” Ferreira says. He was already crediting her with saving his life in interviews before his arrest, but now there’s a worshipful tone along the lines of “Amazing Grace.” He can’t believe the mercy she’s shown him

You can read the rest of the interview over at Stereogum, but in case you're not a Diiv fan, here's a summary; they were all his drugs, he takes full accountability and Sky has been instrumental in his recovery

http://www.stereogum.com/1693522/how...cover-story/3/

Kyle.

shes such a saint. i love her

Liquorice

this doesn't explain that Pitchfork festival performance so.... but i still love ha. Saintly Sky.

bleuwaffle

Alright, I don't hate Cole that much anymore after seeing how kindly he speaks of Sky.

Giliap

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Originally posted by Liquorice

this doesn't explain that Pitchfork festival performance so.... but i still love ha. Saintly Sky.

ok but that doesn't mean that drugs are the explanation either. maybe something happened with him and his drug use/their relationship. idk. but I truly don't believe Sky is a drug abuser.

as926

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Originally posted by Giliap

ok but that doesn't mean that drugs are the explanation either. maybe something happened with him and his drug use/their relationship. idk. but I truly don't believe Sky is a drug abuser.

This.

LoveInStereo

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Originally posted by Liquorice

this doesn't explain that Pitchfork festival performance so.... but i still love ha. Saintly Sky.

She has really bad anxiety and I think it stems from that. All I know is that if he's been drug tested, they probably tested her too, and the fact she wasn't sent to court ordered rehab says she came out clean. I'm ready for her to be canonized

HOD

Sky probably took some drugs in the past years but that never meant that she was an addict.

Cole however looked and well still looks like a walking corpse so he probably had problems with it.
It's very sweet of her to stand by him though, that's a real relationship.

I do believe Sky is a lot more mature now after the passed year, especially now that her label actually wants to invest in her career.
She won't **** up that easily anymore I think.

Summertime Love

Many things are still left unclear but I still over her.