I'm pretty sure there are a LOT of people that deserve to be stabbed to death by their kids. No idea if this is one of those cases, maybe depends on whether or not you think there was any truth behind Franklin's joke? We have some idea of what some Hollywood people do to child actors. Do we think their own kids are immune to that kind of treatment? Again, no idea if that's the case here, but something pretty fucked up had to happen...
His son was a druggie. That is a danger for any family. If you don't cut someone like that off you are literally putting your life at risk. That is true no matter what type of politics you hold, or what socioeconomic strata your family is in.
People keep saying this like the explanation stops there. He didn't become a druggie in a vacuum. Maybe his parents were great and didn't have anything to do with that, no idea. Just saying that if this were a child actor instead of the child of a director, I think people would be more like "what did Hollywood do to them?" instead of "welp, just druggie things!"
I can think of more than a few reasons why someone would stab a parent to death. Pick any day that ends in a Y and spend it on the internet.
The reason he got into drugs could be anything, but it was his choice. That's how addiction is. And addicts destroy lives. That's how addicts are.
I'm not celebrating or absolving the son of blame. I was just commenting on whether or not anyone could deserve it, and yes, many people do. And based on zero evidence, I'll assume that the % of people in Hollywood that deserve it is higher than normal. I mean, if Brittney Spears stabbed her mom tomorrow, I don't think many of us would be too surprised.
The public argument was at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party, not too outlandish to imagine someone else brought a little something along to a Hollywood party, the kid partook / acquired some, and the dad went ballistic when he found out, adding public embarrassment to whatever drug fueled reasoning the kid may have had.
