Though his superstar rose ever upper, Layne Staley's life had enough darkness to drown out even the brightest degree lights. He struggled with addiction for much of his lifestyles, and as Steven Hyden of the A.V. Club tells us, the yr 1996 turns out to have marked the get started of his sluggish, sad downfall. In October of that year, his former female friend and fellow drug addict Demri Parrott died of bacterial endocarditis. The singer was once so deeply stunned by means of the information that individuals close to him mentioned he "more or less died in spirit."
Staley began residing in seclusion in his Seattle apartment, and spent years in the corporate of not anything but medication and video games, resisting all attempts to entice him again in the international. His bodily situation slowly deteriorated to some degree the place he resembled a walking lifeless, and it seems that could not care much less whether or not he lived or died. As Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney tells it: "Layne told me straight up, 'I'm never coming back. I'm not going to quit doing drugs. I'm going to die like this — this is it.'"
The singer's resigned prediction got here true in 2002, when his dead frame was found sitting on a couch, surrounded by means of copious amounts of medicine. At that point, he used to be so detached from the international that he hadn't spoken with some of his bandmates in over two years, and he was once most effective discovered because his accountants began questioning why he hadn't spent any cash lately.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qL7Up56eZpOkunB%2BknFrbW1fqbWmedOrmKChk2Kxpq3ToWSonl2WuaqvxGagp2WTna6qutJmo5qxnpp6tMDApZyyZw%3D%3D