Classmate remembers Janis Joplin on what would have been her 70th birthday week

[@davinagaskin6651]

In her own words they laughed her out of her class, school and her state .....and now they claim to remember her so fondly. Riiight

[@tiffanyrodarte2466]

Amen! And then when she returned they still laughed at her.

[@tiffanyrodarte2466]

Even her own parents were cold to her in the words of her brother

[@adrianrussell580]

Yeah I hate this, she has clearly said all the school girls where awful to her. Funny how they all seem to be best buddies now.

[@jacquelinec.6785]

Exactly!

[@priyac7054]

"they laughed me out of class , out of school and out of the state man!"

[@marysueellis2614]

Most of the people in her home town either hated her or rejected her. I think she was very lonesome growing up. It seems once you become famous (especially if you become a legend) you gain an awful lot of new "old friends."

[@reesemorgan2259]

Well, she achieved a lot in school considering she was so badly bullied. I believe her to an extent, but I also believe she had the admiration of some of her peers to have written for the school paper etc. I suspect the worst of it came in her late teen years. It must have been truly life-scarring to be named "ugliest man on campus" ( what a poisonous 'nod' that is even if the _lucky winner_ is actually a man ), but she must have had some friends, especially earlier on. Funnily enough, she looked older in her childhood pictures than she did at the time of her death. She seemed to have become younger with each advancing year. She was not made for the straitjacket of the 1950s! Remember when some men's magazine voted Sarah Jessica Parker "Ugliest Woman of the Year" or something? It wasn't that long ago. I mean the Editors - presumably educated people. Who the fuck raises these wankers?

[@goutvols103]

This is so true. On the same Dick Cavett show, she said that the people of Port Arthur ran her out of her school and town and she was going back (to her 10 year reunion).

[@williamfrancois5]

@@goutvols103 it's very sad how they felt about her.

[@gaskellr44]

Hopefully he was a genuine friend in this video. The technical term for these excuses for humans, and I mean adults, not children who sometimes don't know better...are Hateful Cunts.

[@livingdead9318]

She was mistreated in high school and college. Very sad life.

[@blondthought5175]

As a Texas resident, I've been to the museum in Port Arthur and have seen her Porsche. That is one fascinating paint job. I could hardly tear myself away. Of course Port Arthur now claims her. She's what keeps them on the map.

[@okpunky]

Oh I just love Janis Joplin. Love her music still today. I could listen to her all day and watch videos. Loved when she was on Dick Cavett I kind of got the feeling he had a crush on Janis. Just by how he talked to her. Looked at her Yes I think he did. Wonder if Janis suspected he did as well. I think had I been born when she was in her town we would have been good friends were so much alike except I don't sing. Yaaa. She was and still IS GREAT RIP Janis 🌹🙏🏼🌹

[@GROOVYJOJO]

Kitties - Back H cavett and janis became very close friends maybe more if u watch 2015 vid on youtube w film director and her ex

[@thomasromano9321]

But does Port Arthur deserve Janis Joplin?

[@pietroanania]

Texas and Porta Arthur shame forever in front of the world

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

@@thomasromano9321 *That town is as backwards as Kannapolis*

[@keymankeys1960]

this is so wrong,considering how bad her classmates treated her.They were the cause of alot of her pain and she died trying to forget.

[@NoRosesForMe]

i was going to say something similar but you already said it . Thank you!

[@NoRosesForMe]

okay i did have to comment after all hehe!

[@tracyshelton5599]

keymankeys1960 yep its sad !, I hate fake smiles n faces!

[@millieburgess7954]

keymankeys1960 that so right why they treat her like you said that why she was on drugs and drink try to forget the pain she went thru that's sad part

[@seekingtruth1110]

She was treated that way because of the lifestyle she chose even before she became famous. Took on the whole football team in one night? I feel bad for her but she made her choices.

[@dawnsmoke2586]

strange how time warps memory ... nothing janis ever said had any fondness for her hometown where she felt hostility and was shunned

[@independentviews1977]

You cannot just simply decide to be someone's friend...the feeling has to be mutual.

[@whitemichaelyoupsychos]

🙏

[@MelchizedekKohen]

they laughed here out of school,town, state they were so horrid to her, the voice you hear coming from janis is pure pain and it comes out so beautifully. rip

[@Lisaj4431]

He should've asked her to the prom....Janis suffered because her hometown NEVER accepted her when she was alive, like many of us.

[@vernonandrews6310]

The real story is in her documentary called Love, Janis. They did cut out the true portion of the Dick Cavett interview when she said that she was laughed out of class, out of town, and out of the state. Now, I'm going back home.

[@Susie196921]

I heard she did not stay at her high school reunion too long and left in disgust! Everyone was staring at her and talking behind her back! She was considered too much of a rebel in that conservative town!

[@timm55]

Janis's soul wasn't put here to "live forever". That soul only came here to share love during a difficult time in the human history. It fulfilled it's purpose and was sent back. I bet the angel that holds that soul now still has the face of Janis!

[@LisaLeeLa]

timm55 I want to meet that angel! :) xo

[@okpunky]

What A Lovely Thought.

[@okpunky]

+Lisa Lee so do I. Do I ever o could talk n talk with Janis. She was an Angel. an Angel of love deep into her soul.

[@shakeyraware1563]

How beautiful

[@Kat-oz9kx]

Beautifully said.

[@bones.and.botanicals]

How are they glorifying her life so much? That guy probably treated her as terribly as everyone else from her hometown. He obviously didnt know her by the way he talks about her. She got absolutely no credit for how far she'd gone in life from start to end. Boooooooo

[@StevieRevbo]

he doesn't know Janis like you tho!

[@DXPunx74]

I have seen the documentaries, read books, listened to the music and I can feel the pain she felt. She was a visionary, an artist, talented, and most of all....A human being. Someone who deserved to be loved and accepted. I can tell she was a good person who had a heart. That heart was broken too much and that pain pushed her to the edge and over the cliff. People can say whatever they want. Too many people say bad things and it's those people who have no empathy for another human being who is suffering. We cant base our opinions off of our own lives and situations. People deal with things differently. Nobody should be bullied or tormented like she was. These people are going to pay for what they've done to her and others. Here's what gets me.....you hear stories about kids being bullied by the jocks and the preppy folks. It's gone on way too much. These people need to be held accountable for their actions instead of being glorified and stuff covered up. These schools need more discipline for all students who bully others. It needs to stop now. The former Dallas cowboys player needs punished for admitting what he did to her. People are sick.

[@Kat-oz9kx]

Wow. What did he do to her

[@steffanyadams8310]

Janis! My girl! Rip to the most unique voice I’ve heard . Your music touches my soul

[@lucy0537]

We could have been such good friends. Rip darlin Janis.......♡☆♡

[@michaeldj5]

This report doesn't seem to truthfully convey the reality of how cruelly and unkindly Janis Joplin was treated by her classmates/peers while an adolescent in Port Arthur. Nor does it realistically portray how deeply that hurt Janis the rest of her life. No one knows for sure exactly why she went back for her ten year high school reunion, but it is known for sure that she left again after that visit with even more pain in her heart than before. I can't believe these jack-ass reporters tried to make up a set of circumstances that never existed, trying to make it seem like all was well between Janis and Port Arthur. All was not well. RIP, Janis. Maybe you couldn't find the love you needed from your hometown, but you sure could find it from your millions of fans elsewhere in the world, even today in 2015.

[@Johnnywhamo]

Your'e all over it my friend. Janis was crushed by that vist, I totally agree with you, she never recovered from that. Reading between the lines that Cavett interview afterwards was all sort of painfully awkward for her. Janis was a very insecure lonely superstar that wanted to please everyone and be excepted.

[@michaeldj5]

I think she went back more to rub her success and celebrity in their faces.

[@Johnnywhamo]

Michael DeWeese, Jr. She did, but she did it because she was ostracized initially by her community for being different. She didn't as much leave her home town as she did run away.

[@tracyshelton5599]

Michael DeWeese, Jr. I would have too like my class reunion but I don't think I will cus I'm not famous

[@pietroanania]

shame forever Port Arthur in front of the world,they search only to wash their spirit today but Janis is gone forever,leavin to our her pain

[@cindyyoung2567]

so you left out part of the clip where she said she didnt really have any friends AT THE REUNION?

[@whitemichaelyoupsychos]

🙏

[@distantlight1995]

She said on Dick Cavett they laughed me out of School, Port Arthur and the state! she was going back for the 10th anniversary reunion and she had a big smile! Quit cherry picking to make them look good. Those days are bad for America remember Kent State? Janis a side of her drug and alcohol problem was a lot smarter than people knew. RIP lady.

[@ericelliott2623]

I read the reunion was a disaster..Many still treated her the same way as they did in school..Sad life

[@RhiannanAR1]

Distant light Yep! “They laughed me out of the school, the town, and the state, man. So, I’m going back.” I wish she hadn’t gone back, or at least had someone like a manager to help her through the god awful questions from the press and get her tf out of there. She handled it well, with class and grace, but the pain on her face, in her voice as she answered the questions was evident.

[@nancymarkiewick3557]

I'd be her friend.

[@StevieRevbo]

wasn't she pissed up (pretty drunk) then tho? (Dick Cavett show) the words of an alcoholic are very unreliable, and it IS a depressant come on we all do that

[@springhernandez7417]

She was such a beautiful person inside and out. 💔

[@NoRosesForMe]

She was NOT proud of that town & those damn people and her childhood home was later torn down. There was NO Joplin house behind the reporter. And- i will also add that at her now "infamous"? class reunion- Janis was given a tire for coming the longest distance. She had no true friends there. or anywhere I imagine.

[@tracyshelton5599]

NoRosesForMe that's sad I didn't like my classmates either they were jerk as well except for 2 I cared about

[@paulastiles7428]

Welp, *that's* sure a classy response bound to change everyone's mind about your hometown. Thanks so much for representing, there, dude!

[@averymonroe9673]

The House is actually still there. I drive past it everyday. (Although the car in the museum is fake) Also, my grandfather BUILT port arthur and his daughter and my uncle went to school with Janis. We'll ask them how she was treated. And the town back then was fabulous now it's trash (words from my grandma)

[@pietroanania]

we are all shame for you ,people of port arthur same forever in front of the world.Janis died also for your

[@dallasgarland5131]

So very tragic yet with her talent sge put every hateful person to shame and even in death she is a living and will always be The Great Legend Janis Joplin... Melissa Etheridge with all she fights fir and every song she sings about love forgiveness being true as well shares that place in our hearts was there to give that honor of inducting Janis to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I pray soon someone in her lifetime will ptesent this honor to the Great Melissa Etheridge as well and soon. Melissa was born to be a legend as Janis ,Jimi, and so many others. ❤Dallas❤

[@benaguilar1261]

I agree with the majority of comments posted. Now everyone in her hometown seem to talk so kindly of her. She went through hell with all the bullying that town gave her. I don't blame her for not wanting to go back that often. Rest in peace Janis, your true fans do love you sincerely.

[@michaelmcknight8419]

Thank you so much for this!!

[@lindar5413]

What a liar! Janis hated that town! They were mean to her.

[@deealone5191]

*As others have said, I don't believe for a second that this man was her friend like he claims.*

[@lindaeasley4336]

If she actually had any friends at all there , she would have made mention of them during the Dick Cavett interviews. They are all phonies

[@StevieRevbo]

@@lindaeasley4336 but I thought i had read how Janis was involved in Anti-War (VietNam War) activities in her hometown, and that's difficult to do with no friends

[@penelopelopez8296]

I believe he was more of an acquaintance…..but I don’t think he was actually one of her tormentors. He probably knew her and they were friendly to each other.I doubt every student treated her badly. People do Grow up and realize their mistakes. That’s okay, as long as they transform into human beings. I was bullied in jr high. Public school IMO sucks. I wish I could have been home tutored…..it would have been less traumatizing for me.

[@Fireglo]

@@lindaeasley4336 why are you making up your own rules for someone else's personality?

[@privateperson7022]

Janis, you continue to shine so brightly here. You are loved and missed. K.

[@latinguy67]

Janis asked me to tell you and the rest of PA to fuck off

[@lisaakinlabi]

OMG she would hate that plaque :( According to Janis no one there was her friend and they treated her very badly. Shame on them.

[@pietroanania]

I agree ,shame forever they wash only their spirit

[@RhiannanAR1]

Lisa Akinlabi I agree. I’d love to see the home she grew up in, but I couldn’t visit there knowing it was a source of pain for her. So, instead, I’ll make a trek to Haight Ashbury in SF where Janis felt accepted and safe. This is all wrong. Where was Dr. Monroe when Janis needed a friend in school? Where was he at her HS reunion when she looked close to tears? There was nobody there for her at the reunion. She was forced to answer painfully uncomfortable questions, not one person with her to handle things for her and guide her out of there. Knowing how Janis felt about her years in Port Arthur, this is sickening. She never felt love from her hometown, but here they are when it’s nearly 50 years too late pretending to love her. She deserved so much better than the life she got. 😢

[@cyaneawilliams7716]

This video makes me want to go all the way to Port Aurther and tear down the sign. Road trip anyone? We can thumb it

[@tracyshelton5599]

Cyanea Williams sure lol rotten slugs

[@leemerc4134]

Hey, I just saw this sickening video! Did you get the sign? Oh my god how sad to feed off someone elses fame. Disgusting lying empty zombies. I hope you got the sign!!

[@lisagriffin2699]

Lets roll, I'm in!!!🎱

[@franzferdinand17]

I’m down!!!! Let’s go! Those douched bags didn’t deserve her! I hope those pricks who tormented her are living miserable lives! I wanna know who they are!

[@dallasgarland5131]

Im with u hell yes 🌈❤Dallas❤

[@jenncampbell5881]

they treated her like shit ,,, extremely sad ,,, and now old... trying to be nice... there's been reports that she would cry and cry over these people bullying her ...truely sad

[@ccgrey8731]

The thing is that someone should have told Janis it was a bad idea to go to the class reunion. Who goes to such events except the people that were super popular in high school? Janis thought that by going that she was going to show them up with her success. It was understandable on her part but also sad and needy and they probably sensed that and treated her even worse in response. She went in her stage persona gear with the feathers in her hair and that made her more isolated. She should have never bothered trying to impress them and skipped the whole thing. I think she did more damage to herself emotionally by going. She died a short time after that. Very sad.

[@thomasromano9321]

Good points, Creata Ann. How true.

[@greg7656]

She also had a huge fight with her mother that weekend, during which her mother said she wished Janis had never been born. Incredibly sad, not only for Janis, but for her mother, who must have come to regret those words two months later and had to live with it the rest of her own life.

[@MsThebeMoon]

Maybe to FINALLY be accepted and maybe even an apology ... jerks, they still dismissed her.

[@lindaeasley4336]

@@greg7656 words like that can cut as deep as an actual knife .Anybody would feel like drinking or drugging after being told by a parent they wished they had never been born

[@vrinda5303]

Strange, I wasn’t popular in high school, but I still went to my high school reunion, and so did many others who were just like me. They’re not just for the popular kids. Many people were at Janis’ reunion, and I doubt they were all in the in crowd, either.

[@paulcarpenter4215]

In that same interview on the Dick Clavett show, Joplin, when talking about the reunion, said her classmates laughed her out of class, out of town and out of the State. She had no affection for her home town. People love to make money out of the famous.

[@tweetybird2968]

Broke my heart to see her reunion interview clip. You can see the exact moment when all the feelings were swelling back up. Was tough to watch. She seems to be a very intelligent, genuine, sensitive gal. And of course wild, tough and not afraid to speak her mind. Those are all the qualities I love about her. Janis. Thank you for sharing your heart and soul !!! Obviously, you will never be forgotten 💜💜💜💜

[@chickasawstarrmountain9747]

she was so tormented by her classmates so sad

[@lizdavis818]

NOW is a bit too late, don't ya think?

[@lizdavis818]

They shunned her alive, now that she is gone they want to remember her, I don't think so. This town is one of the reasons she is no longer with us. Shame, using her name to cash in. big boo

[@tracyshelton5599]

Elizabeth Davis year like people who didn't like me in school all in a sudden want to be her friend after she died, two face fakes!

[@tracyshelton5599]

like her not me dumb auto correct ugh

[@greglarry11]

Better late than NEVER.

[@whitemichaelyoupsychos]

🙏

[@Cannon.7777]

81 she would be this day. Bless her, a heart full of pain.

[@bluejay6803]

I think it’s nice that her home town decided to honor her. She was definitely ahead of her time a “rebel”, but she accomplished so much in her life, it’s sad that she died so young. But it’s been way to many years since her death and it’s only logical that a legend should be commemorated in her hometown. Can’t be resentful forever about something few people in that town remember, because the city is so different nowadays with different demographics and different people, who may not even know about her existence. All those people who grew up with her are very old today or perhaps dead.

[@brendaniebel1355]

I lived in Houston, TX, hated it there. Rude people. I feel her pain She wouldnt have gotten so messed up, hurt, and full of sorrow, if it hadnt been for her nasty schoolmates. Rip Janis. Oct 4th 1970 she passed. Todays, Oct 4th 2019. I wish i could have hugged her.

[@lucifermorningstar-xx6kx]

hes full of sht!, she said she ddnt really have any friends in High School and prob didnt want this guy talking about her

[@TheGreggl]

They abused the shit out of this poor girl and laughed her out of town. Bunch of hypocrites.

[@dylanesque66]

Sadly, this still goes on around the country to others

[@penelopelopez8296]

Yes, it does. I was bullied by two girls in Jr high school. They were nasty…..used to try to gang up on me. I’d have to run down the hallway to get away from them. Public school can be messed up, especially back in the 60s and 70s when I was in attendance. Teachers did very little about bullies and tormentors. I just had to get through it but being treated like crap by your classmates was quite common back then….as you probably know. Some of us can forget about it but it’s still there in the back of our minds. If she had lived, I’m sure she would have gotten over it in later years .

[@ernestinemaloy8680]

@@penelopelopez8296 SAME...from 6th grade on my belongings were stolen damaged or destroyed by classmates middle school was hell on earth and mom joined in on the abuse I was constantly kicked out of school for fighting back called a liar and a theif and mom refused to put me in a better school so I never got the chance to blossom...I tried to drop out of school in tenth grade and was put in a boarding school for jds...I dropped out for good in 11th grade never graduated but still managed to work and have a life...my reward ?? Moms dead and I now own the house I continually ran away from when I was younger...it is in MY NAME ALONE so hafuckingha to the family members who tried to destroy me...they are dead now too btw...good riddance and rip janis joplin .

[@Samantha416]

It's a little too late to remember her fondly! Those people treated her horrible and shunned her! I had a similar experience in school. If you didn't look a certain way or have parents that made a shit load of money you were considered trash! I unfortunately left school at 16 and never returned. I see all of these people now and sadly many of them are either divorced twice have kids that they had while still in school or dead from drug overdoses! It's sad that people are like that. Those are the ones that make you have a bitterness in your heart.

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

Reminds me of a song called AT 17 by Janis Ian✔

[@albertawheat6832]

No it isn't to late, Their motivation however could be questioned.

[@melgrant7404]

Vulnerable woman rip janis❤

[@luvmenow33]

In one of her letters home to her family right before she died she apologized to her father for being a disappointment can you imagine a woman who was considered one of the best at what she did and loved worldwide feeling like a disappointment

[@thyslop1737]

What an immense talent she was.

[@alicemilling3706]

Cant imagine her 70 wow She'll always remain young ,singing in the big band in the sky with Elvis, Jim Morrison ,Jimmie Hendrix, the list goes on .......all forever in our hearts ❤🌹

[@deborahraike9247]

Love her music

[@florinbaiduc]

...the hypocrisy is killing me.... you can find the whole interview on youtube, and afterwards she said something like: "they laughed me out of class, out of the town and out of state...so I'm going home". They cut the most important part out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gn2laq2BhsZjb6s

[@juniorjohnson9509]

Her classmates were assholes, and treated her horribly, scarring her for life. Her childhood pain was very evident in her singing.

[@franzferdinand17]

Man, I wish I knew her back then. I would’ve been her friend! That’s all she wanted, was someone to care about her and love her for who she was. I watched her documentary on Netflix over the summer, and i literally cried. The stories of how her classmates and college mates treated her was disgusting! I wish I could’ve been there to hug her, and put those assholes in their place!

[@FrancieItalian-qo2pu]

Me to !!!

[@jcIIXVIIIVII]

Yeah, Port Arthur loved her so much, they refused to acknowledge her or her accomplishments for DECADES...until they realize how profitable it was to be the hometown of an icon. And to this day, they still edit out and completely ignore what that town put her through. Janis knew exactly how that town felt about her, as she was the one who went through it and she wasn't afraid to call them out on it, as she has. And they disliked her for exposing them for how she KNEW they treated her. She wanted nothing to do with that town, and now, sadly, they're making money off of her name. Total disrespect and a disgrace.

[@timr31908]

I'm Met Janis Joplin in 1967. We did a hit of speed or crystal meth together and it was a lot of fun she is just one cool chick... I miss her more than anything

[@carloseugeniocarlos4287]

Her life is damn really sad!Rest in peace Janis!

[@normabenjamin6374]

No matter what people say about Janis, SHE’S ALWAYS IN MY MOM A ND MY HEART!!!!!! LOVE YOU FOREVER!!!!!

[@susietopspin]

How two faced can people be? Shunned by class mates and her town. Janis deserves to be remembered but by people that truly cared about her, not those who want their 15 seconds of fame and to "pretend" they were friends with her. Hopefully, she is giving them the middle finger from heaven. RIP Janis❤️

[@weston2468]

Dream come True!! Doubt It

[@deadlygamer-wf8wb]

I wonder if any of her friends stuck up for her and if this friend fought for her ...Port Arthur sounds like a sad ugly place.

[@lavonnacasey5724]

deadlygamer 6712 It is and no doubt why Janis sang the blues.

[@MsThebeMoon]

A lot of it was the time period. The rest of the world was not where San Francisco was at the time. Hippies were largely looked down upon, even those who we call Rock Legends today. That is no excuse for bullying - god knows I had my share. I remember in 1968, I was eight years old and me and my friends were excited to dress like "hippies" for Halloween. My sister (ten years older) said to me in disgust "You want to be a hippy? Just roll in the dirt and then you'll be a hippy." I also remember around 1970, when this girl who lived on my street went to California for some time and came back with what I thought were cool looking clothes and she was wearing this kind of top hat going from her car into her house. The neighborhood suburban housewives gathering on the lawn gossiping and laughing at the young girl saying "oh my god and did you see that hat?". We don't want to go back to that time period culturally. Stay safe and vote wisely. No, I doubt that bloke ever defended Janis. If he was anything to her we would have heard about it.

[@MsThebeMoon]

To understand a little bit more regarding the acceptance of the wild counterculture and how it was received, I recommend watching Easy Rider. Great soundtrack and there's a young unknown actor in it named Jack Nicholson.

[@wreckingball2334]

Why bother interviewing her former classmates. They treated her like crap. No excuses

[@MegaTriumph1]

Its to bad we lost Janis so young. She was a star at such a young age and should of slowed down and take some time off to stay healthy. Like so many death came knocking first and the world lost a timeless personality.

[@andreat.2809]

College was a trauma for J.J. and we all know why. I suggest looking for the video of the reunion and listening to the atrocious questions a journalist asked her.

[@BLUEOHIO]

Janis hated TX and Janis loved CA and OHIO

[@jonmarretta2459]

Why Ohio?

[@md21656]

What was her connection to Ohio ? . I am from Ohio, and I think it’s neat that she liked it.

[@ghambino1]

She did not like her classmates, they treated like crap according to Janis.

[@thomasromano9321]

What an irony. Joplin tried to go back to her home town for her 10th high school reunion, and not only did her parents shun her, so did all of her so-called friends from her high school days. As a student growing up in Port Arthur the only place she found solace was to go across town to the black bars and talk to the blues singers of the time. Why are people in Port Arthur so eager to embrace her legacy now??? What an irony. They shunned her, and now they embrace her as an icon?? They probably want to remember her now because Port Arthur is a town with a lot of conservative dead-end people going nowhere, and Janis was one person who had the courage to turn her back on it and step out into the world, becoming famous.

[@privateperson7022]

When those asses in PA realized that, even in death, Janis's star continues to shine brightly, now they want to hitch their wagon to her star, hoping the world will forget how terribly they treated and tortured a child named Janis Joplin.

[@thomasromano9321]

So it's just more opportunism. The conformist thing to do back during her life was to shun her. Now the conformist thing to do is pretend they were "buddies" with her? What bullshit. One of the biggest insults she had was to have her classmates vote her "The ugliest man" for their high school yearbook. What does that say? All these people, classmates, even family members like her sister, talking about her. Where were family members when she came back to visit Port Arthur? I heard Janis was deeply hurt that so many people avoided her. It's just like the phrase, when there's a choice between a lie and the truth, publish the lie. It sours me that all these people talk so matter-of-factly about her now as though they were personally acquainted with her. I think a lot of Port Arthur people were afraid of her because she had the courage to leave a dead-end place like that... and make it on her own terms.

[@lindar5413]

I wonder too.

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

I learned the truth at 17 that love was meant for beauty queens🎶

[@catswalkjpgr]

Yes the Cavett show was majorly edited. I’m surprised they didn’t add in a “golly gee” too.

[@beatle9239]

The fact that the interview was edited says a lot.

[@joeyrobison6629]

Buddy Holly, from Lubbock, was treated the same way that Janis was treated in Port Arthur. In the 50's, 60's and 70's in Texas, if you were "different than the norm" you were ridiculed and bullied and shunned. Years later they are acting like they are the best of friends to these people, hell, they even put a statue of Buddy up at the Lubbock airport. As Natalie Maines of The (Dixie) Chicks, also from Lubbock, Texas wrote, "I hear they hate me now, just like they hated you, Maybe when I'm dead and gone, I'm gonna get a statue too!" The hypocrisy of these people amazes me.

[@Jamestele1]

Dr Sam Monroe was a longtime friend. I know many in the town, like Jimmy Johnson, bullied her and called her "ni**er lover", made threats, etc. He grew up with her and is in several documentaries on Janis. I am stating this because when one becomes such a legend, many "long lost" family members, and "old friends" pop out of the woodwork for handouts. I love everyone here being so "protective" of Janis - we are kindred, Bohemian, spirits. I cried watching Little Girl Blue, when they showed how she was treated. Peace

[@willowman7721]

Wish she could have been my girlfriend. I think she was beautiful.

[@mastic5519]

Janis was truly a trailblazer, love that gal.

[@mqbitsko25]

They treated her like something they stepped in, and now they all claim her as their own.

[@tiffanyroseangeles7517]

How sweet! RIP SWEET LADY OF THE BLUES JANIS

[@robertyanes4751]

How could any classmate comment on Janis when all they did was humiliate, belittle, torture, and force her out of town. This is in alot of interviews. Out of her own mouth.

[@derekavalos8]

All this people treated her really bad in her school, all bullies towards jannis, and this manroe wasn't any different eather,, fools. rip beautifull jannis.

[@gofiodetrigo8756]

my top 2 best female singer ever

[@philiphoward1731]

It’s too bad Janice went to school back in the 1950s and early 1960s I think today she would’ve been a lot better in high school because people are a lot more tolerant today I think she would’ve had more friends if she would’ve gone To school today

[@romankatz982]

Wow. She was editor of her school newspaper. Usually, only the popular girls got to do that.

[@gloriabrowning1697]

Beautiful soul

[@Phenomenal8448]

The house on 32nd st with that historical marker what does the inside looks like?

[@notamusedbutamused1471]

They may have bullied her and I think it was quite bad but even today she is still winning. Her name is alive in grand ways. Just goes to show ya the not so popular kid could be famous. Grow up and just be decent people in life no matter who they are. I loved her energy and her truths.

[@albertawheat6832]

Weird, How people who didn't know Janis, are complaining...That other people who didn't know her, don't have any right to act like they knew her. 🤔😳

[@jarodcarnarvon5198]

Wish I could have known Janis..... RIP

[@DianneElizabeth64]

Was he one of her bullies? She sId she was laughed out of class, out of school & out of the state and she was going back to laugh

[@lisagoodin2959]

Janis Joplins were never born to be old

[@oughtssought1198]

is KFDM a Texas station? where is this first woman's accent from?

[@williamclark6555]

They left out the part where she said on the Dick Cavett Show, that she was ran out of school, out of town and out of state. Port Arhtur was not and still isn't a nice town.

[@raymondwilson293]

Very nice ❤️🙏

[@thepamela050]

Heck she didn't evern want to be buried in Port Arthur and her parents buried her in California so I don't know why anyone from her HIgh School would care enough to put up a sign in her childhood home, when they never showed respect for her when she was alive..

[@SenorZorrozzz]

Sad that the kids who were at her class reunion she went to shunned her.

[@pietroanania]

shame all ,they wash only their spirit todat and I think she died also for them

[@leahmonday4686]

Love You! GOD BLESS YOU! lm

[@Earthdogbonzo3]

Her reunion was a tragic, heartbreaking disappointment, I read it somewhere I can't remember. All of that emotion, pain and energy . . .where does it all go after the blossom dies?

[@projectkj7643]

Does anyone know the names of ANY of her classmates who bullied her? Nope. Bunch of nobodies. Even in high school, I knew better than to bully people...they knew better. They were jealous of her fame but the pain they caused lingered.

[@barbaraaraujo7700]

Jimmy Johnson, ex-Dallas Cowboys football couch, was one of those who bullied Janis and made her life miserable in High School. There are several reports about that.

[@Kayleighw16]

What s#!++¥ people. They literally made fun of her so much. And now they claim to love her so much 🙄. Come on.

[@samsneadd]

It is funny how the style back then made her look older as a teen then in her 20's

[@markyboy214]

The gift he is referring to was a beat up old tire painted gold. It was an insult to Janis. Port Arthur is lucky to have her born there.

[@DH-nk5lw]

amazing coincidence that both Janis Joplin (JJ) and Jimmy Johnson (JJ) ,born same year,attended same high school,and went on to fame.Odds of this occurring must be mighty slim. Johnson recalls Joplin : www.thesportsseer.com/jimmy-johnson-and-janis-joplin/

[@stephsmith9911]

he says he was her friend, but if you ever saw her reunion(you can find it on youtube) he, like most of her classmates, was not very kind to her.

[@TheDog_People]

'Joplin attended her high school reunion on August 14, accompanied by Neuwirth, road manager John Cooke, and sister Laura, but it was reportedly an unhappy experience for her' Uh huh, great time and good people? Likely not smh

[@redsammy7789]

Funny to read the comments about how Texas is bad, this state is huge, Port Arthur is still a small town, have any idea of what is was back in the 50's ? And you had farmers and simple people with not a lot of money. I am in no way defending anyone who treated her bad because she was not like them but it was not everyone in town much less the state of Texas. Texas has a huge blues history with a lot of legends that are no longer with us.

[@Bow-j6c]

Her fame won't cover this clowns ass or the others there who tor her heart out ,

[@tawanakuticoski4732]

Ela deixou Saudades 😢😢😢😢😢

[@cookiedevil9525]

Disgusting how they treated her. Now they are cashing in. Pathetic.

[@yvonneelizondo3267]

They didn't even like her. Like she said they laught her out of school, and town. So screw them.

[@janieford7799]

I think people was jealousy of Janis because she can sing and they want to hurt her feels. I think she was pretty but people want to bring her down those bullies never changed and that is so sad. Rest in peace Janis die too young gone but not forgotten.

[@MsThebeMoon]

She came away from that class reunion pretty frickin hurt, so what really happened? Maybe this dude wasn't what upset her but enough people from Port Arthur did. I remember reading an article in the 70's or maybe even the early 80's when Port Arthur still refused to acknowledge her or put up an plaque saying she was from there. Thing is kids say cruel rotten things that they think are funny and then move on with their lives forgetting or not realizing how deep they had hurt someone. I've had people from my grammar school on up befriend me in facebook, that at one time teased me or said cruel things and they don't remember. He may have been one of the few who never said anything mean to her, but I'm guessing he never put himself out there to defend her either.