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Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by chasil on Saturday February 14, 2026 @03:54AM (#47012883)
Claudia Christian, who played Susan Ivanova, is also well known for her documentary on alcohol addiction.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=crYU4xT1aRI

Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by TiredOfLife on Saturday February 14, 2026 @04:04AM (#47012932)
It would be easier to list b5 actors without drug or alcohol issues.
Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by chasil on Saturday February 14, 2026 @04:18AM (#47013000)
Look at what she has to say.

It is of profound significance.

Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by normie3000 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:16AM (#47013333)
You've linked to a 50+ minute video. Is it recommending naltrexone for alcoholism?
Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by chasil on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:28AM (#47013386)
It is, after the well-known book by Roy Eskapa.

https://www.amazon.com/Cure-Alcoholism-Willpower-Abstinence-...

Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by jostylr on Saturday February 14, 2026 @12:51PM (#47016605)
There is also Katie Herzog's recent memoir/guidebook on it: https://www.amazon.com/Drink-Your-Way-Sober-Science-Based/dp...
Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by danaris on Saturday February 14, 2026 @04:44AM (#47013147)
And sadly, so many of the main cast are no longer with us—far more than one would expect from their ages.

I know that some of them, indeed, died due to substance abuse issues; I don't know the circumstances of all of them. They will all be greatly missed.

Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by RobotToaster on Saturday February 14, 2026 @07:56AM (#47014192)
Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by danaris on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:51AM (#47014943)
Indeed—and Mira Furlan died just a few years ago, at 65.
Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by chasil on Saturday February 14, 2026 @04:57AM (#47013233)
In the lingo of the show, they have "gone beyond the rim" (of our galaxy).
Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by danaris on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:21AM (#47013626)
And we will see them again in the place where no shadows fall.
Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by Findecanor on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:02AM (#47014606)
Being a B5 fan, I found it heart-breaking to see Jeff Conaway on the reality show Celebrity Rehab a decade later. (the fact that there even existed a TV show called "Celebrity Rehab" ...)

Too many others of the main cast had died relatively young, of "natural causes" though. Richard Biggs, Mira Furlan and Stephen Furst stand out.

Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by sandworm101 on Saturday February 14, 2026 @10:07AM (#47015059)
They are actors, young people paid to display exaggerated emotion while living in a world that values youth and appearance over everything. Then we ask them to constantly adopt new characters and shower them with on-again off-again false praise based on whether or not they are working on a given day. Frankly, i am impressed that any of them manage to walk away without profound mental health issues.
Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube by thaumasiotes on Saturday February 14, 2026 @10:15AM (#47015120)
> Frankly, i am impressed that any of them manage to walk away without profound mental health issues.

My impression is that there's not much causation from being an actor to mental fragility. It's the other way around; the pool of people who make good actors is already prone to mental fragility before they become actors.