Biography

Wendy O. Williams

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Born
May 28, 1949 · Rochester, New York, USA
Died
April 6, 1998 · Storrs, Connecticut, USA (suicide)
Birth name
Wendy Orleans Williams
Nicknames
- The Queen of Shock Rock
- The High Priestess of Metal
- Wendy O'Williams
Height
5′ 7″ (1.70 m)

Wendy O. Williams was born on May 28, 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Reform School Girls (1986), Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog (1989) and The Legend of Billie Jean (1985). She died on April 6, 1998 in Storrs, Connecticut, USA.

Passed away from self-inflicted gunshot wound in a wooden area near her home.
Dropped out of school in the ninth grade and went to Europe. When she returned to the US she began performing in live sex shows.
Known for destroying automobiles and television sets, and chainsawing guitars on stage.
Was featured in a "Playboy" pictorial (1986), skydiving naked, where she was described as the "leather-clad queen of heavy metal".
Was the first woman in history to appear on national television with a mohawk haircut.

Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things. Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behavior patterns make me so bored, I could throw up! The Plasmatics [her heavy metal rock group] give me a chance to get this violence out of me, and express it to other people. I don't like conformity. I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
The act of taking my own life is not something I am doing without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so in one of the most fundamental rights that anyone in a free society should have. For me, much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and a place where there is no self, only calm.
[on her past as live-sex performer] It was just like working in a doughnut shop, except you didn't wear a paper hat.

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