According to the book, they both slept together and got high.

I didnt write that smut about Janis,she toldRolling Stonein 2018.

I would never talk like that about our close association.

Peggy Caserta, Janis Joplin’s Onetime Lover, Dead at 84

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But I lost control because I was strung out and making awful decisions.

That same year, she said that just thinking ofGoing Down With Janismade her want to use drugs.

Nothing good came of it.

I hate that book.

I saw her foot sticking out at the end of the bed, Caserta toldRS.

She was lying with cigarettes in one hand and change in the other.

For years it bothered me.

How could she have overdosed and then walked out to the lobby and walked back.

I let it go for years, but I always thought, Something is wrong here.

For her part, Caserta said Joplin was bisexual.

She was fun and outspoken and uninhibited, she toldRSin 2018.