![]() ![]() “There’s never anything written that’s actually hateful or awful,” he said. But to people who were visiting another grave and weren’t familiar with his movies, he said, they could be taken the wrong way. Waters said the words that people wrote in the past have tended to be lines from his movies, and fans of Divine recognize that. I’ve seen lots of little offerings…It’s very respectful.” ![]() “Every time I go I see different little things that are left,” he said. Waters admits that he brings gifts to leave at Divine’s grave when he visits, and he looks to see what others bring. “The Divine estate approved and I did too.” “A fan paid to have the grave cleaned, which we thought was lovely,” Waters said. The changes came after an admirer of Divine’s offered money to restore the gravestone. Others look at it as celebrating Divine’s career. “I know some people look at the writing on the headstone as defacing or desecrating the land there. “I get it because I understand that people want to come and pay their respects,” he said. ![]() Some people think it’s absolutely not OK.”īrodie said he’s on the fence about how people behave at Divine’s grave. I think it’s a real polarizing kind of thing. “I compare it to something along the lines of Jim Morrison’s grave, where people do come and leave things and they do mark the headstone. “People have mixed views of how graves should be treated, especially when you’re talking about someone as iconic as Divine,” said Noah Brodie, the California-based CEO of Divine Official Enterprises LLC., an organization created with Divine’s family to administer his estate and help keep his memory alive. ![]()
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