Another blind item has been posted today, on the same gossip site as last week. This one delves into greater detail, and there seems to be no mistake that this is about Nez…
Many people have asked for information from firsthand sources about the situation with Michael Nesmith. Ed is a longtime friend of Nez’s, as well as a photographer who has taken pictures of Nez live in concert (these are two of Ed’s photos, one with Micky backstage at a First National Band Redux show in 2018, and one with Nez’s daughter Jessica at the Grammy Museum in 2019).
Ed is also one of the witnesses to what has been happening. This is what friends and employees of Nez’s are facing, and why no one has spoken out about the abuse.
Thank you to Ed for coming forward and sharing this.
Seeing these pictures side by side is utterly shocking. The fact that people still don’t want to admit something is wrong is beyond senseless. We need to keep talking about what is happening with Nez, because being silent has accomplished nothing.
Hello, followers of the NP Tumblr. Apologies for the long delay between posts, but it’s been very difficult and painful to be a Monkees fan recently, and the video above is a large part of the reason why.
This video was shared to the Videoranch Instagram yesterday. This is not the Nez so many of us to know, and to see him in this state—weak, gaunt, possibly malnourished—is beyond horrifying. Those who have followed the #sad state of affairs tag have seen the trajectory of what has happened to Nez over the past few years, but things have sharply grown worse over the past few months in particular, to which this video (as well as yesterday’s livestream) is a living testament.
If you are a Michael Nesmith fan and shocked and appalled by this video–as we at NP are–do something. Decry what is happening in this video by sharing it and speaking out against it. Michael Nesmith—the Monkee, the innovator, the country music pioneer, the man and friend many of us know as just Nez—is in serious trouble, and the time for being quiet is long over.
