Feldman's friend performer Penny Arcade recalled that "a lot of people in the Warhol scene pretended to be crazy, but Andrea really was.

Judith Crist, a critic for New York magazine wrote: "The most striking performance, in large part non-performance, comes from the late Andrea Feldman, as the flat-voiced, freaked-out daughter, a mass of psychotic confusion, infantile and heart-breaking.

"[6] Several days after returning from Europe, Feldman summoned several ex-boyfriends, including poet Jim Carroll, to the New York City apartment of her parents to witness what she called her "final starring role.

'"[7] Feldman's close friend Geraldine Smith wrote in her obituary for The Village Voice and said "Andrea left a note addressed to everyone she knew, saying she loved us all, but 'I'm going for the big time, I hit the jackpot!"

Rumors spread that the note that Feldman left behind wasn't as kind as Smith's obituary implied.

[9] Smith later said Feldman's childhood trauma led to her suicide: "Her mother left her alone when she was two years old and she never got over that.