My friend Harold Pruett
I was so blessed to find some clips of Harold Pruett on youtube…
There’s more written about Pruett on my November 17th, 2006 blog…
Singing a lullaby on Hull High…
Pru singing AND dancing…Life Among the Eaves, Hull High
Short scene from Hull High
Here’s a couple of links to Martika music videos he was in -
Hillarious – a scene from “Parker Lewis’ Day Off” in Italian or Spanish or something!
Part of an old 21 Jump Street episode Pruett was in…
I still miss him! 
I took a long break from writing my book and have a had quite a few people write to me and ask how it’s coming along…(convicted)…I know I’ve got to start writing again. Sometimes it’s pretty draining to write about the past – some of the memories are painful and bittersweet.
Heroin is such a destructive, life taking drug. I hate it so much. It’s steals so much…I’ve lost so many friends because of it. I want people to remember, I want to keep Pruett “alive” in my memory, along with some of my other friends I lost because of addiction. Not to wallow in the past, but to always remember how important it is to reach out to those who are still living in the horrible cycle of addiction and to let them know that God has a plan for their lives – Jesus can set them free. I also never want to forget where I came from.
Being clean now for going on seven years in March 9th of 2008 – I’ll be totally honest – sometimes it’s easy to go along my busy life and forget about those who are still lost and perising in their destructive lifestyles of addiction, or too think that “they’re too far gone”…when in fact, I was one of the junkies people (even other junkies!) would look at, and say “She’s too far gone” – and look at me now – I’m a new person – ONLY by the grace of God! I am SO GRATEFUL! He can do that for ANYONE, no matter how ‘far gone’ they may seem. As long as they’re still breathing, there’s hope…
Pruett was so talented, so full of life and yet in so much pain. People don’t get strung out on heroin just because they think it’s “cool”. Maybe the media makes it look that way so people try it because Hollywood and the music industry make it look glamorous many times…but anyone who continues to use it knows that there is NOTHING glamorous about shooting dope and being a junkie at all. It’s a most miserable life.
Anyway, that’s my thought on heroin for the day.
Along with some memories of Pruett. I’m so grateful to God that He allowed me to have a friendship with Pru for the short time that we did.
Hollywood Forever Find a Grave
January 8th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
How did you know him? Sorry if I missed that part. Will look more on site.
January 25th, 2009 at 8:46 am
I am almost finished writing a book on my experiences as a junkie and I include Pruett in it… we met at a friends house… doing drugs…
February 21st, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Hi Laurie—I was just finished drying my hair this morning and something propelled me to look up Pruett—just do it for no reason. So i instantly did as I had my laptop right there and I was stunned to see that today was the day he died. I was very angry with him and I still am. You see, he was one of my best friends from about age 12 to age 19 or 20. We met on an ant-drug television show. I was hosting and performing and he sang on it. His mother and my mother were best friends. I looked you up because I wasn’t sure the context of how you might have known him, In the last 10 or so years of his life he really turned away from his “old” friends, except maybe a guy named Billy and a guy named Ira. I’ll leave it at that! But I used to be a reporter for CBN News, so I saw the interview you did on the 700 Club. I forgive him—I’m glad God told you he is with HIm But I’m still just so angry with him for ever even getting to that FIRST step into drug use. I don’t understand it—he was LAST person who would have lacked the confidence to just walk away. Everything you said about him was correct and that’s what I told my husband and son today: he was electric and a leader, not a follower. So how he followed someone into the drug scene is beyond me. If you want to contact me, I can privately share some wonderful videos and pix of him when he was much younger that I’m not even sure Andrea has. May the Lord bless your ministry!