The Jaw-Dropping Story Behind Sid and Nancy, Punk Rock's Most Tragic Romance
"She could spot someone conning her a mile away," he said. "She had good insight into people. She was aware of phonies and fakes and users. She did display that wild, crazed behavior, but it wasn't her total being. I saw both men and women pushing past her, not acknowledging her, talking to Sid. I think a lot of her nastiness and temper tantrums were rooted in that. I was there one night in a club where some girl offered Sid her number.
And at almost 11 a.m., someone from outside the hotel called the front desk and said, "There's trouble in Room 100." After a bellman went to go check, another call came from the room, a man telling the desk clerk, "Someone is sick. Need help." According to the book, Sid wrote: "Oh Debbie, I love her with such passion. Every day is agony without her. I know now it is possible to die from a broken heart. Because when you love someone as much as we love each other, they become fundamental to your existence. So I will die soon, even if I don't kill myself. I guess you could say that I'm pining for her. I could live without food or water longer than I'm going to survive without Nancy.
"The next day I got woken up by a flatmate telling me that my friend's face was all over the newspaper," Peter had said in the 2009 documentary. "I ran out, picked up a newspaper and Sid was dead." His guilt eased over the years, though. "If he hadn't got it from me, he would probably have got it from someplace else. Sid took a lot of chances. But he was too young to die. I never expected him to die.