
Slowly, we all walk out of the room the same way we walked in, hearing Gerard Way singing, but now it’s the lyrics “We’ll carry on” from “Welcome To The Black Parade” as we mouth along. Countless “I love you”’s are scrawled across his likeness-his face and memory now imprinted with permanent declarations of fondness and compassion. “What an inspiration” is written and underlined beneath his “Cry Baby” facial tattoo. When it’s all over, friends write their last messages to Peep on a canvas bearing his photograph. Must everyone fit into the box? Why must we have a box?” She offered an important message asking us all to examine our own prejudices and refrain from judging a person based on how they look or choose to live their life. Try to step outside of your own box, and open your mind to new ideas. “Ask yourself these questions: ‘Do I really know this person? Have I sat down face-to-face and asked to tell me about himself? Do I know what matters to him? Do I know what he values?’ Please do not make assumptions about people, or events, in ignorance. She went on to say that if you had seen him walking down the street at night you might be put off, scared or even label him a “loser.” “If you had made these judgments about this teenager, about this young man struggling on his own to find meaning as a man, then I ask you to use this moment, right now, as a time to reflect on your actions,” she challenges. She shared that some people rejected him because of his lack of interest in school, his penchant for tattoos and piercings and his refusal to fall in line with societal norms. And by the end of the ceremony, he was someone that I wish I had known personally, too.ĭuring her powerful tribute, Peep’s mother recalled how, from a young age, the artist felt like an outcast.

“He took tap dance-the only boy in his grade.” Lil Peep wasn’t ordinary by any means, but he also wasn’t just a celebrity. “He was a great baseball player,” she says. The woman I just met, who stands next to me for the entirety of the memorial, fondly remembers the details of his life that the news doesn’t share. As each gives their own account of how tender, determined, stubborn and unique their Gus was, I gradually begin to feel like I’d lost a friend, too. Arzaylea (who has asked us not to share her last name), 21, was there because her dad and Kylie’s boyfriend, Tyga, are business partners-they both have stakes in a headphones company.I begin to cry tears of my own as Peep’s former girlfriend Emma Harris, mother Liza Womack and even grandmother Jenny Kastner take turns speaking. It’s a problem), but when the band handle accidentally tweets a drawing of a cartoon Arzaylea making off with Hemmings’ money well, that’s just awkward.Īrzaylea met Luke at Kylie Jenner’s 18th birthday party. “Money” may be a 5SOS fan’s anthem (I personally have spent an EMBARRASSING amount of money to get good seats at 5SOS shows.

Fans also noticed that Arzaylea posted some pretty cryptic content on Twitter, including a poem that plenty of people think might be about Luke himself.

He said, I hates these centipedes and they seem to find me and bothers me every time.Īrzaylea shot back by threatening to unleash a lot of dirt on Luke and his friends, and she also accused his squad of being racist and homophobic. So, he got one on the inner side of his left forearm.

He used to hate these creepy-crawlies, and they used to bother him all the time. Meaning: Peep got a tattoo of a ‘centipede’ inked on his left forearm.
