Fran and Donnie Andrews met when he was still in prison; their phone bills were monstrous. He encouraged her to get sober and, two years after he was released, they married.
In the bad old days, Denise Francine Boyd Andrews could be found most of the time rooted on a stoop on Fayette Street, in West Baltimore, fuzzed out on heroin but still as ornery as she could be. According to David Simon, who chronicled her story in “,” a book that he began writing in the early nineties with Ed Burns, a former homicide detective, she was a “tough bird.
The odds were lousy. The neighborhood around Fayette and Monroe Streets operated as a sort of open-air drug market, and getting “off the corner” was a herculean task. Gary McCollough died of an overdose before “The Corner” was published. D’Andre died of his addiction in 2012. Andrews, who first tried heroin when she was twenty-three, had stolen money from her family and traded sex for drugs at her lowest moments. Even so, she made a reach for better outcomes.
In 1993, on a hunch, Burns introduced her to Donnie Andrews, a former addict who was serving a life sentence for killing a drug dealer. Her initial response was, “Fuck you and fuck the person you’re talking about.” But she took his call from prison. Donnie Andrews was a walking contradiction: he was a career criminal who nevertheless had a conscience and held to a moral code. He had surrendered to Burns, in 1986, and then became an informant.
By any measure, the wild swings in Fran Andrews’s life were dizzying. Heroin had its hooks in a sister, a brother, her ex-partner, her son, and, undoubtedly, countless friends and neighbors, but then there she was, walking the red carpet when “The Corner” was nominated for several Emmys. Her wedding to Andrews was featured in the. On “The Corner,” she had a cameo as an intake worker at a rehab facility, turning away her fictional self, played by Khandi Alexander.
One of their last encounters contained all these incongruities. In October, Simon was working on a new show in Baltimore, “We Own This City.” After shooting a big sequence, one of the extras had got high, and then passed out in his car. He ended up at the hospital. The counsellor who did the intervention with him was Fran Andrews. She probably relished the irony, the odd richness of all the layers of her life—bad and, ultimately, good.
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