- Born
- Died
- Birth nameWendy Orleans Williams
- Nicknames
- The Queen of Shock Rock
- The High Priestess of Metal
- Wendy O'Williams
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Wendy O. Williams was born on May 28, 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Reform School Girls (1986), Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog (1989) and MacGyver (1985). She died on April 6, 1998 in Storrs, Connecticut, USA.
- Passed away from self-inflicted gunshot wound in a wooden area near her home.
- Dropped out of school in the ninth grade and went to Europe. When she returned to the US she began performing in live sex shows.
- Known for destroying automobiles and television sets, and chainsawing guitars on stage.
- Was featured in a "Playboy" pictorial (1986), skydiving naked, where she was described as the "leather-clad queen of heavy metal".
- Lead singer for the infamous 1980s punk rock band The Plasmatics.
- Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things. Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behavior patterns make me so bored, I could throw up! The Plasmatics [her heavy metal rock group] give me a chance to get this violence out of me, and express it to other people. I don't like conformity. I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
- The act of taking my own life is not something I am doing without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so in one of the most fundamental rights that anyone in a free society should have. For me, much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and a place where there is no self, only calm.
- [on her past as live-sex performer] It was just like working in a doughnut shop, except you didn't wear a paper hat.
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