Post-fame, Harry's drug taking became less care-free and innocent, as she and her partner, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein, lost everything in the early 1980s and developed serious heroin addictions.

Harry was hugely popular on the New York social scene in the late Seventies and Eighties, frequenting Studio 54 with figures such as Andy Warhol, Truman Capote and Paloma Picasso.