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Chris Cornell Dedicates Temple Of The Dog Song To Scott Weiland
Posted On Dec 14 2015
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“It’s sad. Myself, I was addicted to drugs for a long time and the only way I was able to stop doing drugs was being in a plane crash and having morphine for four months when I didn’t want it. That’s what it took for me to get sober”. But that was just one of several drugs keeping this show on the road.
“I can’t deal with this right now”, she said, sobbing.
Battled addiction: Scott Weiland was pictured with fans at a bar ahead of his November 20 concert with The Wildabouts in Elmwood, Illinois. “Anybody who’s there that’s famous, we’re gonna bring him on stage”.
Weiland’s former Stone Temple Pilot bandmates – Eric Kretz and brothers Dean and Robert DeLeo – released a statement Friday thanking Weiland “for sharing your life with us”.
She detailed how she spent hours calming “his paranoid fits, pushing him into the shower and filling him with coffee, just so that I could drop him into the audience at Noah’s talent show, or Lucy’s musical”. All the sudden you are playing five or six nights a week. You f***ed up.’ Yeah, he was pretty hammered, dude. But you know what? “You’re gonna have money, you’re gonna have drugs, you’re gonna have pussy, and it’s gonna be everywhere.’ And I said, ‘If you do anything, stay away from heroin.’ And I probably should have said, ‘Do as much as you can, ‘ because he did the exact opposite”. The cause of death has yet to be confirmed by coroners, although it was recently reported that drugs and alcohol were found on the tour bus.
In an exclusive interview with Loudwire earlier this year, Weiland claimed to have been off drugs for 13 years. Police separately announced they had found cocaine on the bus, and Weiland’s Wildabouts bassist Tommy Black was arrested for possession of a controlled substance. Friends’ concerns that he was doing crack were proven possible when cocaine was found near his bed by police investigating the scene, and eventually we learned he also had Xanex, sleeping pills, and opiates in his room as well.
