Joe just came 10-15 years too early being the user. Today we would think nothing of it. He was too open, but that's probably also the reason he's successful now.
He's honest in his music, probably more so than in person.
And about the abuse thing. That's tricky. It's like once you get that label, that's your label. I do think that some men and women are a bad mix, and are abusive to each other.
I asked before, has a man ever admitted he was abusive besides Chris Brown. He had no choice but to a admit to it, because there were pics, police report and she was famous.
So we've never seen a man say I was abusive to her, and I got help. Even if he had a long relationship or got married, people would still think he was abusive. That's a scarlet letter. Maybe if we saw that, we would feel differently. But we've seen people who became clean from drugs.
