lol. I'm so glad he gave it the go ahead. I mean yes they were using his name, but it was also the product's name, and it's not like his name is a proper name anyway, it's a word that other people should be free to use. But anyway, I'm glad he liked it. A lot of people would say he was aloof and unfriendly, but I think he was just shy. He was shy as a child. He did a lot of fan shows and after parties at Paisley Park for like 200 people. They talked to a few people who had been there, one guy who was a DJ many times and he said that P was never anything but nice. All that stuff about not looking him in the eyes, not speaking to him until he speaks to you, etc... was just nonsense. I've heard quite a few people who were at these things who said he was very nice. I'm sure he had his diva moments (painting a house purple, monogrammed carpet in a house he doesn't own, whatever) but overall I think he was just an easy target for rumors like that since he was shy.
Now if he had gone with the stage name he wanted to he wouldn't have had that problem with the spaghetti. It was "Mr. Nelson". The news was talking to the guy who met Prince when he was 16 after hearing him play and gave him the keys to his recording studio. He insisted Prince already had the perfect name for a performer, and he should use it. Thankfully Prince listened.
eta: I heard he had been seeing a holistic practitioner recently but I'm not sure of the timeline. Maybe he realized that he did need the medication and to treat it in a more traditional way. But if it was that bad why didn't they keep him in the hospital on the 15th, when he was taken in after the emergency flight landing?