Faster Pussycat’s Taime Downe Addresses Fiancee’s Cruise Death
Faster
Pussycat
frontman
Taime
Downe reflected
on
the
cruise
ship
death
of
his
fiancee
Kimberly
Burch
in
a
recent interview
with
Eddie
Trunk,
expressing
hope
that
his
band’s
newly
launched
tour
will
prove
therapeutic
in
his
grieving
process.
“It’s
a
roller
coaster,” Downe
told
Trunk
on
a
May
30
episode
of
Faction
Talk
on
SiriusXM. “I’m
hanging
in
there.
I’m
just
taking
it
a
day
at
a
time.
And
everybody
thought
going
out
on
the
road
and
doing
what
I
do
and
being
with
my
family
in
my
band
would
be
good
for
me.
So
I’ve
taken
their
advice
and
[I’m]
doing
this.”
Burch,
who
had
been
engaged
to
Downe
since
2022,
went
overboard
The ’80s
Cruise
in
March
as
the
ship
was
heading
from
Miami
to
the
Bahamas.
She
was
56.
Shortly
after
the
tragedy,
The
Hollywood
Reporter published
an
article alleging
that
security
footage
showed
Burch
jumping
from
the
ship,
and
that
Downe
had
been
cleared
of
any
wrongdoing.
Taime
Downe
Says
Fiancee’s Death
Has
Reinforced
His
Sobriety
Trunk
noted
during
his
conversation
with
Downe
that
fans
were
worried
the
death
of
Burch
would
jeopardize
the
singer’s
sobriety.
On
the
contrary,
Downe
said,
the
tragedy
has
only
reinforced
his
sobriety.
“What
happened
with Kimberly,
too,
it
was
alcohol
and
prescription-related,”
he
said. “So
I
blame
alcohol
and
pills
on
it.
There’s
no
way
I’d
touch
booze.
For
me,
that’s
just
completely
disgusting
in
my
brain,
you
know
what
I
mean?
So
I’ve
got
some
hatred
for
booze, ’cause
I
loved
the
hell
out
of Kimberly,
and
it
was
just
hard
to
deal
with.
We
spent
basically
nine
years
together.”
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“I
don’t
wanna
get
into
what
her
psyche
was
at
the
time,
but
there’s
a
lot
of
things
that
make
up
people’s
lives
at
a
certain
time
of
their
life,”
he
added. “It’s
been
hard
on
everybody.”
Faster
Pussycat
kicked
off
their
current
tour
on
May
30
at
Count’s
Vamp’d
Rock
Bar
&
Grill
in
Las
Vegas.
They’ll
be
on
the
road
through
early
July.
“I
just
think
it’ll
be
very
therapeutic
to
get
to
see
a
bunch
of
fans
and
a
bunch
of
friends
across
the
country,”
Downe
said. “So
I
think
it’ll
be
helpful.”