Heather Armstrong, Blogger Known as ‘Dooce,’ Dies at 47
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variety.comPat Saperstein Deputy Editor Heather Brooke Armstrong, the writer known as “Dooce” who gained popularity in the early days of blogging, died Tuesday.
She was 47. Her family announced her death in an Instagram post on Wednesday. Her boyfriend, Pete Ashdown, told the Associated Press she died by suicide. “She had a relapse recently and that’s what really spiraled her down.
She was sober for over 18 months, then started to sneak back into it. And then in the last month she went full tilt,” Ashdown told AP.
No cause of death was given. A fluid and personal writer, she had long described her struggles with severe depression and alcoholism.
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