For many, Debbie Harry was a first crush. If you’re older, just a plain ol’ crush. Either way, she’s a well assembled woman who happened to front a pretty cool band that covered a lot of ground. Disco, proto-rap, rock, punk, pop… oh, and that terrible ‘Maria’ one.
And there’s a certain tragic suicide blonde thing going on with Debbie, which makes her even more alluring. She’s been a Playboy Bunny with her boobies out, she was adopted as a baby and is generally a bit broken and trashy.
Oh, and she was nearly killed by one of America’s most notorious serial killers, Ted Bundy.
While promoting new Blondie LP, ‘Panic of Girls’, Harry revealed that she was almost murdered by the notorious sex killer Ted Bundy.
She totally forgot to mention this previously, but now there’s an album to promote, this salacious news suddenly sprung back into her mind. Handy that.
Debbie opened up about how she nearly accepted a lift from the Bundy, who of course, was executed in ’89 for murdering over thirty women in the early ’70s.
Debbie Harry told a newspaper we’re not linking to, because they don’t link to us when they steal our articles:
”The hairs on the back of my neck just stood up. I pulled the door handle from the outside. He tried to stop me by spinning the car, but it helped me fling myself out,”
She added: ‘
‘Afterwards I saw him on the news. Ted Bundy.”
If he’d kept her in the car, he probably would have strangled her and then had sex with her dead body. That’s a nice cheery thought to see you safely into the weekend, eh?
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Robert says
Yeah. Mmmmmmmkay. http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/debharry.asp
Raul says
this info is wrong. She commented if before a LOT of times.
I think your comment is little ”bitchy”
ian says
It’s an old story. Why it got picked up now I cannot understand.
I do have one pet peeve on the subject. I’m not saying it was Bundy as opposed to another member of the homicidal community, but that Snopes article is totally inept. It is not conclusively known that Bundy committed his first murder in 1974 as Snopes claimed. In fact there is some evidence that his first murder was 1961. He later claimed to killing two women in Philadelphia in 1969. Other killings are attributed to Bundy from 1972. (Serial killers are not that easy to summarize). Ms. Harry’s claim is unlikely and unverifiable, but not impossible. But it’s a distraction.
halo says
I happen to know Debbie. She owns a bar in my hometown and is one of the most approachable stars/people I have ever met. I say this because I have met Bruce (nice guy, normal, hits on anything Ginger) and Jon Bon Jovi (who is a Douche)
I heard her tell this story about a year ago, during the hunt for the “Craigslist killer”, at her bar one night. Listening to her tell the story and the look in her eyes when she was telling it, had to be real.
And cheers go to Ian, for proving yet again that Snopes has a lot of info but isn’t always correct.
Brenden says
Terrible “Maria” my scrote. I hate this mindset of “a classic band made a comeback, so it was automatically terrible”. Get an original idea. Great song.