She Had Two Personalities
Some of Dusty Springfield’s biographers and journalists speculated that the star had two personalities: there was the shy, quiet, Mary O’Brien, and then there was the public face of Dusty Springfield. According to a 2001 biography, “Dancing with Demons,” the confidence she exuded on vinyl “was a facade masking severe insecurities, addictions to drink and drugs, bouts of self-harm and fear of losing her career if exposed as a lesbian.”
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Despite the rumors and the image that the media was setting for Dusty, Simon Bell, one of Springfield’s session singers, debated the twin personality claim. He said, “It’s very easy to decide there are two people, Mary and Dusty, but they were the one person. Dusty was most definitely Dusty right to the end.”