Between 1995, when James first revisits Stevie, and 1997, when production proper started on this documentary, Stevie was charged with molesting an 8-year-old girl.Īfter a run of tour dates last fall, iconic solo artist and singer hasn't run out of songs to pull out of her 'Gothic trunk,' which she brought to Pittsburgh's PPG Paints Arena last Friday as her tour in support of continues. His stepsister Brenda is also a support, a surrogate mother who seems the best-adjusted member of his family, perhaps because, as her husband tells us, 'they didn't beat her.' Stevie freely expressed hatred for his mother, Bernice ('Some day I am going to kill her'), and she is one of the villains of the piece, but having stopped drinking, she feels remorse and even blames herself, to a degree, for Stevie's problems-especially the latest one. The most important person in his life is his girlfriend, Tonya Gregory, who on first impression seems slow, but who on longer acquaintance reveals herself as smart about Stevie and loyal to him. His tattoos and Harley T-shirt express a bravado he does not possess, and he makes a poor impression with haystack hair, oversize thick glasses and bad teeth. When we meet Stevie again, he is 23 and not doing well.
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