Yes He Really Did Say That!

[icyfroth]

Perry's touching and candid tribtue to Dawson(sic)

Charlotte Dawson had an "outrageous" sense of humour, and her close friend Alex Perry ensured that was how she would be remembered when he shared intimate and sometimes shockingly candid memories of the popular celebrity at her Sydney memorial today.

Hundreds of mourners walked a red carpet into the Beresford Hotel in Surry Hills to remember Dawson, who took her own life at her Woolloomooloo apartment on Saturday.

An urn holding her ashes was set before the mourners by her sister, who said she wanted Dawson to be where "she can see everybody".

Perry, an old friend and fellow Next Top Model host, had Dawson's friends and family in tears with his humourous and touching tribute, which he started by saying the pair "stuck to each other like s--- to a bear's a---".

"I'd like to think that I'm the s--- and she's the bear's a---," he said.

After joking about the memorial service being held at "Homo Headquarters" – where it had originally been hoped a drag queen would be on the door – Perry spoke at length about his friend's "outrageous" sense of humour.

He said he wouldn't be able to sum Dawson up in his allotted four minutes, and if she didn't like it she could "fart on me when I get to heaven".

"And so we should probably start there with farts because she actually loved them," Perry said.

"It was alarming in fact. She farted on the elimination desk of Top Model. I don't know if you've heard that sound on a hard plastic chair, (but) it's a very strange sound.

"It would just break her up and she thought it was the funniest thing."

Perry paid tribute to Dawson's ability to always make him laugh.

"That's how she showed she loved you," he said.

"She was a thoughtful, funny, beautiful, fragile girl who wanted to be loved."

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Rather in bad taste I thought, but I suppose Ms Dawson would've found it funny.

Don't you love the typo in the headline? "Tribtue" lol. Where's the proofreaders when you need them?

Probably on CS

Gotta go be back later

[debra9275]

I thought I was seeing double there for a minute. lol

yes I think it's a very odd thing to say, they were obviously very close friends

[azureline**]

I think it's very bad taste to make a service public like this, we have become a society that thhinks anything can be said and reported on..

What happened to dignity?

[silverfaun]

Low class behaviour and her sisters were no better. Charlotte Dawson deserved a little respect imo.

To even contemplate what she did is mind numbing and horrifying,  to make light of her tragedy  casts a pall on decency.

[freakiness]

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@silverfaun wrote:

Low class behaviour and her sisters were no better. Charlotte Dawson deserved a little respect imo.

To even contemplate what she did is mind numbing and horrifying,  to make light of her tragedy  casts a pall on decency.

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Everyone reacts differently to grief. Perhaps it was just their way of dealing with her death.

It does sound rather uncouth but those who know her best would know her likes, dislikes and sense of humour.

Sometimes laughter is the only tool people have to face the day with.

[hihoherewego67]

I don't know, we did not know Charlotte, they did.

Really , the service was about Charlotte and the grievers, so I doubt they would say things about her that she would have been uncomfortable with. She often made fun of herself on tellie, with both words and the silly faces she pulled, so I tend to think she would have been ok with it. After all, it's usually the people who know the descended that get up front and do a speech.

Like Az said, I believe these types of events should not be televised for all to see. If you were personally known to Charlotte you would have been invited. Not everything should be made available to all, all the time. I love gossip, I love reality tv, but, I would have been happy not to have known what was said in the speeches, to have seen the grief. Some things should stay private.

[hihoherewego67]

Deceased....

[**meep**]

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@azureline** wrote:

I think it's very bad taste to make a service public like this, we have become a society that thhinks anything can be said and reported on..

What happened to dignity?

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It was the family's decision obviously so personally, I don't see anything wrong with the public service and reporting.   They held a private ceremony the day before.   TBH, I was more surprised the way the sisters behaved but I agree with Freaki - Sometimes laughter is the only tool people have to face the day with.

[hihoherewego67]

I totally agree Meep that it's the families choice. I guess I just wish people did not feel the need in these days to make everything public. We really don't need to know everything about everyone.