rita saffo e-mailing "the kansas city star" overnight. sometimes you simply cannot save people from themselves. one of the last things she said to me was, rita, i know you hate funerals and don't attend them, but for me would you please come to mine, at least, please? i know she had a plan but she insisted she did not. saffo says spade was self-medicating with alcohol and tried to get her into rehab. spade was worried it would harm her happy, go lucky brand. her sister telling "the daily mail" that spade was obsessed with robin williams' suicide in 2014, saying she was glued to coverage. she kept watching it and watching it over and over. i think the plan was already in motion, even as far back as then. >> it appears at this point in time to be a tragic case of apparent suicide. but it is early in the investigation. there was a suicide note left at the scene. >> reporter: this morning, a single question surrounds spade's apparent suicide, why? in an interview with npr last year, spade suggests she suffered with anxiety. >> i am also a ver