Days after his tragic death, two separate pictures are emerging of Sage Stallone that stand in sharp contrast to one another. The first, as presented by the family and its lawyers, paint the thirty-six-year-old as a loving, slightly eccentric man who was planning to marry and had his live together. The second, as presented by sources within the police department and a few of Stallone’s co-workers, paint him as a recluse in the midst of a downward spiral. The coroner’s report may help clear the discrepancies up, but for the time being, it’s simply one group’s words against another’s.
If you take it from the family, Stallone never drank, was working on several projects at the time of his death and never exhibited any signs of addiction. His lawyer and friend George Braunstein told People, any empty cans found at the scene were once filled with Doc Brown’s Cream Soda. Calling him a talented kid, the attorney said Sage was a film geek who spent hours watching old movies and working on new projects.
TMZ, however, is running with a different angle. The outlet recently interviewed a photographer who worked with Sage, and the man said when he saw the actor two months ago, he was incoherent, rambling and clearly on something. It apparently took him forty-five minutes to answer the door, and at some point mid-conversation, his voice simply trailed off and he walked away.
Regardless of who the real Sage was, Pop Blend’s sympathies go out to his entire family as they make sense of what happened.
