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DIMEBAG’S WIDOW RITA HANEY IS KIND OF AN IDIOT

 Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 at 11:09am by

Rita Haney “If Phil Anselmo hadn’t quit Pantera, Darrell wouldn’t have been playing in that shithole where that guy could get to him.”

Well duh, Einstein. Had that or any one of a million other things been different, Dimebag wouldn’t have been shot. This kind of shit-talking, taken from an interview in the March 2007 issue of Guitar World, is the kind of unnecessary bashing sure to add fire to the flames, not to mention that she comes off like an idiot. If I’d left for work one minute earlier today perhaps I would’ve been hit by a car. If Kip hadn’t left the house that day maybe he wouldn’t have broken his shoulder. We can all make ourselves crazy with a million “what if”s, but it won’t do any good because they’re all true and we can’t change them.

Anselmo, for all his past problems, for the most part has made his amends with Dimebag personally, in his music, and in the media. So Rita, why start this kind of public shit-slinging? A million factors could have been different about that night, and had any one of them been different things wouldn’t have ended the way they did. Why chose the one that’s the most convenient and controversial? We all understand the colossal loss and pain you feel, but that’s one step too far. Fuck you, Rita.

-VN

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  • Sammy

    Where “they” could get to him? Who are “they”? He was killed by one deranged asshole.

  • http://www.jonesyandthewayne.com Wayne

    That’s pretty specious reasoning. I have a tiger-repelling rock I’d love to sell her.

  • TedTedPoleyPoley

    i read that on blabbermouth, and i was pleased that the last time i looked at it none of the commenters actually agree w/ her on that statement (very untypical). that’s just a plain dumb statement no matter which way you spin it.

  • Carlos

    She’s fugly.

  • http://goatlady.wordpress.com goatlady

    It’s a shame cos she’s been doing a fair bit of press lately and until now hasn’t managed to say anything stupid…

  • http://www.hibernum.net Hibernum

    Maybe if he would have lived longer he would have dumped her. Besides, to be a widow you have to be married at one point.

  • Ken M

    i bet he cheated on her trailer park ass every chance he got.

    dumb hoe.

  • http://www.bastardradio.com Bastard No. 1

    Ginormously retarded.

  • Canadian Metal Head

    I feel sorry for this woman because she must not have any true friends. I feel for her loss but if the extracts I’ve seen of this Guitar World interview are indicative of the entire interview it could be a disaster. Calling the venue a “shit hole” is incredibly insensitive considering that three other men were killed there trying to save Dime, one a member of the venue’s security team. If you read the book, “A Vulgar Display of Power”, you’ll discover the Alrosa Villa is like hundreds of other rock clubs around the states and Canada. That’s the kind of places that Damageplan routinely was playing. It’s sad to say but apparently they were not a big enough draw to be booked into bigger venues. According to the book, Damageplan’s agency called the Alrosa to book the gig and the asking price for the performance was $1000. Even at $8 per ticket the show only drew about 300 people. In any case, Guitar World is going to do very well with this issue and again, if this is a true representation of the full interview, through her own ignorance of the facts of the murder of Dime, Erin Halk, Jeff Thompson and Nathan Bray she will lose a lot of credibility. Instead of “keeping Dime’s memory alive” more and more she’s comes across as trying to maintain a victim status and exploit as much sympathy as she can. Rita Haney should read the book. At least she’d have some clue of what happened because the asshole who killed all those people didn’t do it because Pantera broke up.

  • lknut21

    goddamn canadian metal head! you took all my words out of my mouth…I agree with you 100% i have that book, and its a good read..

    its sad.. i feel bad for her..shes obviously still grieving really hard..but so is all his fans, friends and former bandmates (two of them that couldnt make amends before he passed probably got hit with the hardest guilt) but shit talking isnt going to do justice… at all. it will make a bad situation even worse! and destroy a legacy of BADASS fucking music! Far beyond driven is still one of the most extreme metal disks to rank at NUMBER 1! top 200 billboards…

  • Snoweagle81

    Didn’t that deranged fuck nut say something along the lines of Dime ripped off his riffs and that it was Dime’s fault Pantera broke up, and that is why he shot him.

  • brandee_wine

    i don’t think its fair to put the blame on phil. have you seen the video on youtube of phil apologizing? ok, with that aside,…i truly believe he is sorry for what happened, its in his music..
    in Nov ’07 phil did an interview with revolver mag. the repoter mentioned that back in Feb.’06 Phil did an interview with Revolver, which was the first time Phil had talked about Dime’s death [except for the vh1 thing], after the interview phil broke down in tears.
    [http://www.revolvermag.com/content/down] <–phil talks about all that stuff
    anyway…
    no one knew that a PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIC was gonna go and shoot dime,
    (a weekend before, that guy was kicked out of that same place!!!!!).

    its unfortunate.
    if she gonna blame anyone shouldnt she blame the security at the place, not the band security but the security that work at the place ? arent they supposed to check all the people that go in there?
    i dont know..

    i can only imagine how she feels
    i think she still is grieving. i love rita but when i read what she said about dimes death being phil’s fault, it was pretty upsetting

    i love pantera, i love vinnie, rex, dime and phil!!!!!!!!!!

    RIP
    dimebag darrell

  • y’all don’t know shit!

    All of your negative posts are bullshit!!! You bitches probably only have Panteras greatest hits! Dumb sackless pieces of shit! None of you are qualified to speak of this! As much as you’re tired of her. I am tired of you!!! Shut your fucken mouths!!! Dime is and was a gem in the metal world of mediocrity in which all you whiney ass clams subscribe to! The issue at hand is a tradgedy. So stop continuing what you seem to think you’re making a stand against and do us all a flavor and stick your heads back where they belong! Yup! In your asses!! Bitches!!!!!!!!!!

  • David

    I agree with dont know shit. you pukes can rot in hell, its non of your fuckin business anyfukin way. Go fuk your sister or something. RITA CAN SAY WHATEVER SHE WANTS DIME WAS HER MAN! she knows Phil better than you bitches and he did let pantera down thats a fact. there success would have had them in larger venues than a club. and security for them would have been much much tighter. what shes trying to say is phil bankrupted pantera and skid row claimed dimes life. get a fukin clue. LOSER WANNA BE AUTISTIC MUTHER FUCKERS i HATE YOU! i LOVE YOU THOUGH RITA TELLL DAVID P. I said hi, signed David W. R.I.P DARRELL SOME HAVE FORGOTTEN THIS IS ABOUT YOU AND YOUR WORK.

  • David

    OH I FORGOT TO SAY ONE THING. iN THE WORDS OF YOUR BELOVED PHIL ANSELMO I WOULD LIKE JUST “5 MINUTES ALONE” WITH YOU BITCHES SO I CAN KIK YOUR ASSES AND CARLOS SHUT YOUR HISPANIC FUKIN MOUTH RITA IS NOT UGLY SHES BEAUTIFUL!

  • MOTHERFUCKER

    Hey, “don’t know shit” and “David”, lick my ass pipe after I take a nice hot steamy shit on your great great great grandmother’s grave! Rita IS absolutely fucking ugly! Sure, she can say whatever words she wants to say here in America, the land of free speech, but so can I. You say I can’t? Anytime you come here and try to shut my big fucking cocky mouth, let’s fucking go! 5 minutes alone, and unarmed, and in a dark alley! Phil didn’t want to do Pantera anymore. Period. Again, it’s America. He can choose whatever the fuck he wants to do with his life. Oh what, he has to stay in Pantera just the almighty fucking little YOU says that he has to?!?! Let’s see you try to make him, tough guy. Fuck you!

  • metaldude

    man did anybody see one of the 10,000 times they showed behind the music on pantera on vh1?phil had a hardcore drug addiction and felt he had lost the respect of his bandmates.he was embarrased and ashamed and felt he had let some friends down.seems to me he couldn’t get his shit together and he knew vinnie and dime wouldn’t put up with it till he did so he put on a front,that’s what guys do.as for rita i think her reactions are normal given what has happened to her.sure,harvard or yale aren’t gonna call with a full ride scholarship for her anytime soon but she’s real and agree or disagree that’s so much more refreshing than listening to somebody bullshittin the interviewer and the people.as for her comment on the alrosa…..well i live in columbus and have played there let’s leave it at that.

  • http://zatso23.blogspot.com Jaybone

    I think metaldude sums it up beautifully. And y’all are some cold fucks to bash Rita, the most innocent person in any of this. I guess she’s just glad you all aren’t her brothers or sons. I know some of you are postin’ shit just cuz you can and you think it’s funny, but just wait…when tragedy comes to your family, maybe you’ll wish you hadn’t been talkin’ shit about a nice lady who will always mourn the loss of her best friend. And while I don’t know exactly what’s goin’ on with Phil, he’s ONLY come off as a punk in interviews since, and we’re over 4 years on with this shit. He may think he’s a notorious BADASS, but he sure as hell ain’t no MAN!

  • DOTH

    SHE WAS NOT HIS WIFE!….she always took advantage of dime and she is a big cow she is always drunk YOU ARE OLD RITA HANEY with saggy boobs and a cowboy hat all the time!

  • Metal_Chick_[R.I.P. Dimebag Darrell Abbott[

    OK DUDE. U NEED TO SHUT YOUR MOUTH. CAUSE U HAVE NO IDEA WHAT U ARE TALKING ABOUT. THIS WOMAN HAS BEEN THROUGH HELL AND BACK AND SHE DOESNT NEED TO EVER FIND THIS KIND OF CRAP ON THE INTERNET. SO KEEP YOUR LAME THOUGHTS TO URSELF BECAUSE U ARENT HELPING THE SITUATION IN ANY WAY. INSTEAD OF BASHING RITA HANEY AND TRYING TO PUT BLAME ON DIMEBAGS DEATH, WE SHOULD ALL BE FOCUSED ON HONORING HIM AND REMEMBERING HIM FOREVER. CELEBRATE HIS LIFE AND LISTEN TO HIS MUSIC. DIMEBAG DARRELL ABBOTT WAS A GREAT MAN, A LOVING PERSON, AND AN AMAZING MUSCIAN. HE IS A LEGEND AND HIS SOUL WILL LIVE ON FOREVER. REAL METAL FANS WILL NEVER FORGET HIM. METAL FANS ARE LIKE A FAMILY. WE STICK TOGETHER DURING TOUGH TIMES. AND WE KEEP JERKS LIKE YOU, OUT OF THE CIRCLE. SO QUIT RUNNING YOUR MOUTH.
    AND FOR THE RECORD………………..METAL DOESNT SUCK!

  • Bill

    The Internet is serious business.

  • Blackdog 218

    Rita is an immature bitch, that’s all there is to know about her. In the same issue of Guitar World, Dime’s brother had an interview and he was decent enough to not blame Phil or insult him at all during the interview, even when the interviewer tried to bring him into the topic.

  • Joe

    wtf, hows it here falt?
    how was she supposed to know it was going to happen?,
    if dimebag was here, we would disagree with you, cause he loves her, so fuck up

  • http://www.myspace.com/chosenblood Chosen Blood

    Who cares what was said? If you don’t like what you hear/read, then don’t listen.

    People grieve in all sorts of ways and sometimes say things they regret. Wouldn’t it SUCK if everything you said was recorded and broadcasted?

    As far as saying Rita’s ugly– that’s a cheap shot. Try being more creative next time.

  • MOTHERFUCKER

    Metal_Chick, I don’t have to fucking shut my mouth if I don’t want to. I don’t have to keep my thoughts to myself if I don’t want to. I don’t have to focus on anything I don’t want to. And I don’t have to quit running my big motherfucking mouth if I don’t want to!! That’s the point! America, the land of the free!! I’m free to DO what the fuck I want, and so is/was Phil. I’m free to SAY what the fuck I want, and so is/was Phil. And if any of you don’t like it, then that’s just exactly YOUR fucking problem, now, isn’t it? ISN’T IT?!?!?!?! If you don’t like the way this country works, then go fuck yourself and get the fuck out!

  • Jaybone

    Why does this prick calls hisself Motherfucker bring up America alla time like the only thing this country is about is the freedom to talk SHIT? The freedom of speech goes without saying ASSHOLE, and I sure as hell don’t need some classless moron who thinks he’s big cuz he runs his mouth at a chick reminding me of ANYTHING about it. It’s always those fucks who got nothin’ to say who try and make up for it by screechin’ about their right to say it. No REAL man talks to a woman like that or disrespects another dude’s family. If you gotta point to make, MAKE IT! You ain’t gotta run your mouth with all the pointless NOISE just cuz it gets your limp dick hard. I’m sick of all the BLATHER and INSULTS from people like you who do it ONLY cuz it’s the internet and they know they can get away with it. If we were all in a bar and you acted and talked like that, everybody would be askin’, “Who’s that asshole runnin’ his fuckin’ pie hole?” And I’ve never heard anything so ridiculous as an anonymous guy on the internet challenging others to a fight. “5 minutes alone, and unarmed, and in a dark alley!” What are you, like 10 years old? I’m surprised you didn’t warn us that you knew karate, too! No TRUE bad ass EVER says shit like that! Whatta fuckin’ joke. Grow the fuck up.

  • Lana

    That bitch is so lucky! She got to bone Dime, and she has easy access to both Vinnie Paul and Kerry Kings hairy dicks! I WOULD absofuckinglutely pull my panties down for both of these hot, stocky, strong and hairy metal men! I would do Vinnie during the day and Kerry at night!

    Ooo, to be filled with Vinnie and Kerrys cum all up in my wett pussy…..I would love it!!!!

  • Lana

    I also would luv to have had Dimebags dick and cum in my juicy pussi too!!
    YUM!!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lisa-Noneofurbiz/1341396396 Lisa Noneofurbiz

    Dime’s death was really tragic, and I am sure Rita is really fucking pissed! But blame Nathan Gale. He was the punk ass bitch that did it! I love all of Pantera and always will! I am not drawing any lines in the sand!

  • Jaybone

    Why do I get the feelin’ that Lana is actually a guy posting under a chick’s name?

  • MOTHERFUCKER

    Okay Jaybone, I know you’re pissed off that your dad beats you senseless every day and forces you to suck his cock, which you secretly love but are just mad that you can’t admit it on this forum without being ridiculed, but that doesn’t mean you can take your lame ass shït around here.

    Keep your pussy minded crap away from here, where hardcore, superior, cunt-loving rockers hang out. Yeah, that’s right, you’re a pussy – but you don’t like pussy, that’s the problem.

    You’re more into gay porn and fudge packin sex with your (male) homies. You also seem to think that for some reason you’re cool and tough, when all you give is your narrow-minded cynical pointless opinions on me and what I should and shouldn’t do.

    Let me give you some advice, take your weak ass crap away from here, go find some gay sex forum, and be happy with your small dick.

    Don’t you dare challenge me, you cockwrangling, chickenshit motherfucker.

  • Cameron

    What right do you have to say that she’s an idiot, she obviously was hurt more than you or any of us so she has the right to say what she wants in her anger. No fan can ever feel the loss she did idiots

  • MOTHERFUCKER

    So what you’re essentially saying is that she has the right of free speech, but I don’t?!?!?! She can say what she wants, but I can’t?!?!?! And the only justification your dumb ass can come up with for this ludicrous statement is “anger”?!?!?! So anger makes it OK for people to just do/say whatever the fuck they want, right? Your entire post has to be the most idiotic thing I’ve read on any forum/message board anywhere, ever, you fucking idiot!

  • Drummer420

    Wow fucking blame it on Phil good one Rita. Why don’t you blame security? Oh shit theres a guy jumping that 8 foot fence that looks kind of suspicious maybe I better stop him. It was already too late and whats done is done. Phil Ansemlo is one of the greatest vocalists in metal history and this chick is just known as the woman that spread her legs for Dimebag. RIP