Comments on: Diane Sawyer: Drunk or just tired?

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:44:27 +0000

@ Susan. I would hope that wouldn’t actually go full days without any sleep. You probably at least took naps when the children were napping. That was a stupid comment. Anyway, Diane Sawyer is too old to be staying up for that long.

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By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:52:58 +0000

I’ve had 2 kids and gone without sleep for days — you DON’T act like “this”. She was obviously drunk. Embarassing. They should’ve replaced her for that segment.

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By: Vannuccia

Vannuccia — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:51:21 +0000

When I was younger (say 18-21) I used to often not sleep for 36 hours due to travel or leaving essays until the very last minute- and a couple of times I stayed up past 48 hours- but I would always notice that staying up past 24 hours would always cause me to start hallucinating or cause what I can only describe as white dots obstucting my vision. I know other people who used to see visions of things on the wall when they had to pull an all-nighter finishing work!
I think your body won’t let you do that after a certain age though, as last year I stayed up a couple of times over 36 hours (24 years old then)and I honestly felt drunk the next day and everything seemed to be in slow motion- not a pleasant experience!

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By: M.E.

M.E. — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:33:01 +0000

Diane definitely has the ABC clout to demand a break if she wants one. Like John Roberts, her hubris made her stumble on inauguration day.

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By: chi

chi — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:31:08 +0000

I didn’t see her on GMA but if she was up for 24 hours I can imagine she might have acted strangely. She may be used to crazy hours and all but she’s no spring chicken and ABC should not have prevailed upon her for those kind of hours. It’s ridiculous! Let the woman have some sleep, no one is irreplaceable. Once you hit 40 or 50 it gets harder, or impossible, to pull all-nighters and recover the next day like a 20 yr old.

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By: Aspen

Aspen — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:11:15 +0000

I’m with Dante on this one. I’m 34, and I haven’t been able to stay up all night without looking like ass and developing sleep slur since I was 25 or so.

It was too much to ask of this woman. In short…she’s too old for this shit.

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By: HotLips

HotLips — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:08:32 +0000

Looks like she got new lips too. Maybe that was the problem.

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By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:51:59 +0000

I actually had the experience of going about 24 hours without sleep. Not by choice–it was due to travel and this abroad program I was doing. I basically felt like I was drunk and not in control of my body. When I finally got to sleep, I lost consciousness immediately and slept like a rock. It is not a pleasant feeling.

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By: Baholicious

Baholicious — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:34:29 +0000

They’re lucky she didn’t start hallucinating or have a cardiac event. Very irresponsible of the network.

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By: Aquarius

Aquarius — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:09:24 +0000

Ugh. Poor Diane, ridiculous ABC suits. I stayed up all night while in grad school, though it wasn’t on purpose; I just couldn’t sleep after being stressed about a paper I was finishing. When I hit the 24-hour mark and headed to campus with the paper, I began to feel loopy and noticed that my reaction time to people and things around me had substantially slowed. I also forgot to finish buttoning my shirt, so the assistant in the dept office may have gotten a glimpse of some of the purple undergarment that I was wearing that day. Whoops. I vowed to never again stay up all night and to double-check all future buttoning attempts.

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