On Jul 7, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Virginia wrote:
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> It's sad that Nicole got herself into this mess.
There were so many red flags with that kid early on. When she was at
the Broadmoor, I think everyone was aware she wasn't getting an
education. And the family unit (Nicole, her mother, and her mother's
friend) went from rink to rink trying to find the right coach. They
were one of the most extreme examples of a family putting everything
they had into skating.
Nicole was always half-hearted about the skating, so that should have
been an indication that it was time to pull her out and have all of
them do something else with their lives. But instead they continued
to drift.
Suzanne
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... and this from Phil Hersh http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2009/07/bobek-once-a-skating-star-allegedly-key-player-in-drug-ring.html Meagan...
I don't think anyone figured Bobek would end up being more notorious than Harding, but if she ends up in prison for leading a meth ring, then I think she has...
... Heh. It seems to me that even just staying out of trouble with the police is a pretty low bar to set on the decency scale. :-P From the stories I used to...
... Yeah, but young people often do crazy things. If I kept going like I did in college--boy oh boy! Instead, I am a rural mother of three military spouse who...
I think the nature of the crime may have something to do with it. Getting picked up for a DUI is not a big, big story. But being a major player in a meth ring...
Suzanne, I was thinking the same thing. Distributing meth is light years above all the post whack nonsense that Tonya did. I had a relative that was selling...
... Based on the photo that the showed of her in the article, she didn't look like she had been personally using meth. All the photos I have seen of meth users...
... It takes awhile before a meth user develops that "living on the streets" look, although it happens faster with meth than with other drugs. Jodie Sweeten,...
At any rate, running a drug operation is definitely a bigger story. Also, celebrity stories circulate so much faster now that that may be another reason why...
... It's sad that Nicole got herself into this mess. Things like this also speak to what could happen to former athletes/child actors, etc who are out of the...
... There were so many red flags with that kid early on. When she was at the Broadmoor, I think everyone was aware she wasn't getting an education. And the...
... It always seemed that Nicole's mom really wanted to live off Nicole and her skating star millions they thought she might get. That has to get to a kid....
... That's what I suspected too. And I wondered the reason Bobek never gave it her all was a form of rebellion. And yet she was too tied into the life to...
... Here's another AP article, this one with quotes from Jana Bobek. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070802042.html ...
vsethi@...
Jul 8, 2009 11:33 pm
... Nicole is 31 years old, well beyond her teen years and not even what I would consider a young adult. That whole "she got in with the wrong crowd" excuse...
... Yeah, Nicole's had a long time to grow up and outgrow the whole "peer pressure" thing. She also doesn't seem to have been very good at finding worthy role...
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