train wreck

There is a feeling in Washington that we are gathering at the side of the track to watch a gigantic economic train wreck one of these days.

She may have been a train wreck, but she was a train wreck people still can't seem to get enough of. The sordid but fascinating story of her vicious, no-holds-barred battle with life is one of the most gripping, sex-soaked biographies in years.