A Blurred Reality

DuShuan Headd

Judging a book by its cover, most people would assume someone with a top hit music single and a beautiful actress wife has it all, but the chapters inside that book detail something much less attractive.

Grammy nominee and four time Billboard Award winner, Robin Thicke, was atop of the mountains during 2013. Already prominent in the music business with hits like "Lost Without U" and "Sex Therapy," Thicke saw his stardom rise to worldwide fame when he collaborated with musician/producer Pharrell Williams and rapper T.I. to create the smash single "Blurred Lines."

Becoming the second best-selling digital song of all time, Blurred Lines was a hit all over the world. Having an old-school sound mixed with a touch of "new generation," Thicke described the title and song as "The good-girl, bad-girl thing and what's appropriate thing." The song was being played on televisions, radios, and stores all over and Thicke quickly found himself the center of attention. Seemingly the motivation behind all of his success and happiness, one needs to look no further than his then wife and mother of his child, Paula Patton.

Childhood sweethearts, Thicke and Patton began dating at the age of 16, and eventually got married in 2005. True love some would say, so when it was announced the two were separating in early 2014, the world was stunned. What is even more stunning however are some of the events that have transpired afterwards.

Since the split, the world has had to endure the man who seemingly had everything going for him, look completely "Lost Without Paula Patton." Taking complete blame for the split, for four months Thicke recorded songs and went on tour, singing songs all towards getting the attention of Patton and possibly winning her back. Thicke released his seventh album titled Paula in late June and in a July interview reveled to the world he has not seen "the love of his life" in four months.

A sad story gets even sadder when in a deposition obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Thicke admitted to being addicted to Vicodin and alcohol. He blames his addiction as a reason for why his marriage may have fallen apart saying, "I've been sober for the last two months... When your wife leaves you, it gives you a good reason to sober up." Also in the deposition, Thicke talks about how his drug problem led him to take more credit than he should have for the Blurred Lines single, saying Pharrell Williams came up with the beat and wrote almost all the lines.

Just a year ago, Robin Thicke was living a rock star life. While his rock star life may have garnered him worldwide fame, his personal life suffered and in the process lost the star that shines his world. Now, the "Blurred Lines" singer must wake up every day and face the grips of reality, and ask himself one question -- While constantly being high and drunk, how did he lose one of the most valuable things to him all in the sense of a blur?