The Tragic Death Of Alice In Chains' Layne Staley

Posted by Tandra Barner on Sunday, April 14, 2024

Though his famous person rose ever higher, Layne Staley's existence had enough darkness to drown out even the brightest stage lights. He struggled with addiction for a lot of his lifestyles, and as Steven Hyden of the A.V. Club tells us, the yr 1996 seems to have marked the start of his gradual, unhappy downfall. In October of that 12 months, his former female friend and fellow drug addict Demri Parrott died of bacterial endocarditis. The singer was once so deeply shocked by means of the information that individuals on the subject of him stated he "more or less died in spirit." 

Staley started residing in seclusion in his Seattle condo, and spent years in the corporate of not anything but drugs and video video games, resisting all attempts to lure him again in the world. His physical condition slowly deteriorated to some extent where he resembled a strolling useless, and it appears that evidently couldn't care 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 came true in 2002, when his useless frame was once found sitting on a sofa, surrounded by copious amounts of medicine. At that point, he was once so detached from the global that he hadn't spoken with some of his bandmates in over two years, and he was once handiest found out as a result of his accountants started wondering why he hadn't spent any cash not too long ago. 

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