Nancy Was Bad News
Born to a middle-class family in Philly’s suburbs, Nancy was one difficult child. She threw severe tantrums, bullied her siblings, and physically assaulted those around her. The troubled girl was expelled from school at the age of 11, diagnosed with schizophrenia at 15, and moved to NY to work the streets by the age of 17.
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Nancy arrived in the city right when the anarchistic punk scene was blowing up, and the smack epidemic in New York City was at its peak. She soon found herself rubbing elbows and shooting up in clubs with the likes of Johnny Thunder and Cheetah Chrome. But unlike other groupies of that era, Spungen wasn’t a model, and she definitely wasn’t trying to be cute. She was bad news. And everyone knew it.