Mary J. Blige is very animated. The indestructible R&B diva is a woman who can be called fractured and having a flashback to one of the darkest periods of her well-publicized, often turbulent career, is something she can talk about. "That day I had been up for about three days just getting high. Cocaine is a crazy drug because it takes your addiction to alcohol along for a destructive ride" a candid Mary says about a New York photo shoot for Vibe in 95' that produced the now iconic headshot of her-in red hat. red hoodie, and red lipstick-looking out from the page somberly with those signature Bambi eyes. "I was just thinking. I hope no one knows." It was three years after the acclaim of her hip hop/ R&B debut, What's the 411? (Uptown/MCA, 1992), and the publicity machine was presenting young Mary as a changed woman. The soaring track "Be Happy," which anchored her definitive 1994 album, My Life, said as much: "How can I love somebody ...
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