Janet Fitzgerald
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84 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Janet Fitzgerald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was the most devastating thing that's ever happened to me in my life. I went to Utah for Christmas by myself to hike and go to a spa. And Julie texted me and said, Claire just taught the best class of her life.
And before that class, Claire had texted me and said, Hey, do you think I can open with Lana Del Rey born to die? Or is that too much of a downer? I'm probably gonna start to cry. So this was the Friday before Christmas. And I said, you can play whatever you want, Claire. Go ahead and open with Born to Die. And that was her last class.
The next day I get a text from Julie and Julie says, hey, have you heard from Claire? And I said, no. And she goes, she didn't show up for her class. And I said, oh, shit, I'm sorry. She probably partied too hard. I said, let me handle this. So I call her and I say, hey, listen, I know you've been messing up and I don't want you to worry about it. Nobody's going to fire you.
We just want to make sure you're OK. OK. I'll take care of you. I'm going to protect you. I just need to know you're OK. No answer back. Eventually, they ask me, where's her apartment? Where is she staying? So they found out where her apartment was. And Danny Coppell and Lori Cole went with the police and they found her dead in her apartment.
When I found out about it, her sister called me. That's how I found out about it. And I had a nervous breakdown in Utah and barely got home. I really had felt like part of me died. She was like, it was like me. She was like, I don't know how to describe it. It wasn't even, it was beyond sister. It was beyond lover. It was, we were each other's everything.
after a lot of healing, because none of us even thought we would even be able to teach again. I mean, devastated.
I said it's time to do Moulin Rouge and we'll do it as a charity event. And we'll raise money for the Lower East Side Girls Club because her mom wanted that. And she wanted to help girls with eating disorders because Claire suffered with bulimia and body image, you know.
So I had all the instructors come to my house and we all watched Moulin Rouge together, which was one of mine and Claire's favorite movies.
It was so beautiful. All of us rehearsing together and like dancing together, singing together and people riding bikes. And it was wild. And we raised a lot of money and it kind of all helped us heal a little piece of that grieving that we had for Claire.
So we got all dolled up and we all had our SoulCycle gear on. It was just a vibe. It was like the end of an era and there's this crazy new chapter and everyone was there taking photos.
A lot of the instructors partied hard. I mean, partied hard. So the young ones would stay out all night doing God knows what, a lot of drugs, and then coming in, popping an Adderall, and then, like, getting on the bike, spinning a million miles an hour. Ah!
Okay. I've been a dancer my whole life, and I had a very colorful upbringing. And by colorful, I mean disaster. I eventually was such a mess. I was at Call Arts doing dance, majored in dance, with a minor in drugs, or maybe it was the other way around.
Eventually, it got so messy that I ended up attempting suicide and then was released to my parents in Palm Springs. It was wild because they wanted me to go to rehab. And I mean, like, maybe I should have. I promise we're going to get from crack to the wheel in a second.
I was so in love with him that I got super sober, like literally hauled up in church on Sundays, praying to whoever will listen to like take the desire for wanting to do drugs out of my body.
So I was like, no, no, no, I'm just going to pray and get this desire taken out of my body. And I did.
I call it Christian rehab, really, because that marriage only lasts a couple of years.
I would go and take class, download all of the choreography, take it back to the desert and teach it again. And I would make these trips often to become inspired, really, because Los Angeles was everything. They had all the cool music and all the cool mixes and the new choreography. And it was just like the best place in the whole world to go to. I mean, it was really like Studio 54 of fitness.
She would say things like, well, I see you have a ring on your finger. Now, are you in love with that man? And then I pause and she goes, it's okay. I already know the answer to that question. So let's go ahead and talk about a date that you're going to break up. That woman read me up and down and sideways. And it was the most transformative thing that I think has ever happened in my life.
And it was also one of those things where she had said, she goes, you know, by the way, I'm not sure if you have ever thought about dating women before, but you definitely have had a lot of both male and female lifetimes. And so if you were to have an attraction toward women, Women, it wouldn't be a shocking thing. I was like, what?
Let's fast forward to now I have a girlfriend and I'm living in Burbank, okay? I am depressed, laying on the couch, and my friends are like, listen, can you just please come to this spin class with us? And I'm like, no. I tried it one time and it's not for me.
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