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Robert takes care of Jimmy and helps him throughout his addiction-related struggles, as a friend first (or so he thinks), and soon crosses the friendship line, too. Includes clumsy, teary-eyed confessions.
Based on real life events regarding Jimmy's struggles with addiction, sometimes changed to suit the story better. Events include Jimmy confessing to road manager Richard Cole that he can't stop using smack, Richard Cole finding Jimmy as a pitiful silhouette sitting at the end of the bed so thin he looked like a bolster, Robert asking that the lights brightness be adjusted before starting an interview (due to Jimmy's discomfort), also him stirring Jimmy's coffee when he was too smashed to do it himself, and the stomach ache episode Jimmy experienced on stage during a live performance of Ten Years Gone that he pushed through, leaving the performance unaffected.
*What Jimmy told Richard Cole are his actual words, as recalled by Cole in his memoir.