in December of 2015 Scott Weiland would pass away at the young age of 48 and
his death would shock the rock world at the time of his death he had formed a new group
called skull wallet and the wild abouts and was touring with the band and even
put out a record and in April of 2015 footage emerged online of Scott Weiland playing with
his band in Texas and Scott really seemed out of it as it can be seen in this clip
now Wyland's rep had to put out a statement saying he hadn't gone much sleep he had a faulty earpiece
and he had a few drinks and shortly after the incident happened Richard Patrick of the band
filter gave an interview where he commented on Weiland saying he became privy to a number of
backstage stories while working with wilds former Stone Temple Pilots bag mates and the band army
of anyone and he weighed in on the subject during a recent interview in which he argued we all want
Scott to be Scott but Scott's not even really Scott I love him but he's transformed into a
very different person bless his heart and I hope he gets sober and everything but I was an army of
anyone for years with the Stone Temple Pilots DeLeo Brothers and working on that record and
producing it I heard a lot of stuff about what it was like being in a band with Scott and when
someone shows up an hour and a half late to a show in New Jersey and makes an audience wait
all these people want to go home Patrick would add it's sad that three guys have to sit around
and wait for somebody to show up the rehearsal and they've been there for two weeks working and
the singer hasn't even shown up and you get on stage and the guy doesn't even know how to sing
his own songs and it's pathetic and it's sad for everybody Patrick would go on to claim that fans
would be enabling one's behavior stating the fans are just sticking up for Scott and they have no
idea of what is going on behind the scenes and it's actually they're just pushing him into his
death because they're making him believe that whatever I did is acceptable and I can be as
high as I want and I can do as much drugs as I want and the vocalist will go on to say some
stp fans say he's a badass rock and roll star you can't have sdp without Scott Weiland okay
well you're gonna get what you want he'll be a rock star legend that died in a hotel room
with a needle sticking out of his arm it will not be a cool thing and it will just be sad and his
kids will be traumatized and it's bizarre that the biggest enabler for Scott is the audience at least
a couple years ago I don't know what it's like now and Weiland would respond to these comments with
a statement he'd released her blabbermouth I read hey Richard thanks for your thoughts and opinions
on my life and just so you know and others do as well I haven't had a needle in my arm in 13 years
overcoming my addiction was one of the hardest things I've ever done and I'm damn proud of the
fact that the time of my life when drugs were stronger than my commitment to my health is so
far behind me and always will be by the way man I recall when I did do drugs and you were one
of the guys getting high with me it's behind you please note and respect that it's behind me - as
for my issues with my former band just remember the old adage that there's two sides to every
story I haven't been late for a show in a very long time and I have worked really hard to be
present and on time for my fans I'm not perfect no one is but I've worked my butt off to repair
the reputation I created for being thoughtless years ago why you felt the need to attack me is
unclear but I'm happy to set the record straight best regards to you in March of 2015 Weiland was
back with a new studio album named blaster and a band that he loved called the wild abouts but the
band was hit by tragedy early on when guitarist Jeremy Brown whom Weiland considered one of his
best friends failed to show up for a rehearsal the 34 year old had died at his home in Venice
California caused by what the Los Angeles coroner would later determine involved accidental multiple
drug intoxication it was during this time that Weiland was experiencing episodes of paranoia
caused by his bipolar disorder following a March show at Boston's Brighton Music Hall while and
hosted a disastrous VIP meet-and-greet session heckling fans and insulting others who had paid
150 dollars for the interaction while would later apologized publicly on Facebook Jamie Weiland who
was Scott Weiland's third wife had talked a bit about Scott's bipolar episodes before saying he
would be on the couch with a drink smoking and watching whatever mindless television for weeks
I started to see he had paranoia and some of the bipolar stuff started to come out he kept
his curtains closed all the time and at one point it was so bad I had to move out because
he was so unstable and they found one medication that worked but Weiland would gain 40 pounds so
he stopped taking it and eventually they found a medication that leveled him out and for the last
couple of years he was doing pretty great now 2015 would continue to be a sad year for Weiland as his
biological father Kent Klein who was 72 called him on Father's Day to say he had prostate cancer and
soon Weiland would learn that his mother Sharon who was 71 with whom he was very close with had
cancer as well and this was especially terrible for him since he had lost his brother Michael in
2007 due to a heart condition NIC Mabry who would replace brown in the wild abouts would recall
he was sad about his mom at the tour stop in San Diego Wilin would break down crying on the street
before sound check with Mabry remembering we were just holding him like it's alright brother also
adding to Wallens headspace was that Weiland was estranged from his own show children Noah who was
15 and Lucy he was 13 who lived with her mother which was while in second wife and former model
Mary forsberg and a court had granted her full custody of them and Walden was also missing his
kids you guys are probably wondering if wildin had all the stress in his life then why was he on the
road touring well Scott needed the income which was another major source of anxiety with a Grammy
winning catalog that spent more than two decades he'd sold about sixteen point two million albums
in the United States at least according to Nielsen music but many trips to rehab child support
payments substance abuse and two divorces had left the entertainer in serious financial trivia clip
yeah and it also didn't help that Weiland was not physically healthy in addition to six prescription
drugs he took regularly he was drinking as well which concerned his wife Wallen had also
contracted hepatitis C which was likely acquired from years of intravenous drug use with his wife
remembering his body had suffered enormous amount of abuse and that's no secret and Wallens slide
into his old lifestyle really appeared to have started in 2007 during the later years in Velvet
Revolver that same year his brother Michael had died from a cardiomyopathy which was a disease of
the heart muscle that often stems from drug use and when while and got the call the first thing
he did was hit the bottle and before long he was doing drugs his sister-in-law would remember that
the loss of his brother was a huge blow and while and probably never recovered from that loss now
while it himself never thought his drinking was a problem but in the spring of 2015 the newest Wild
About guitarist and recent teetotaler Mayberry had worried about his bandmates drinking he tried to
talk with Weiland but that was useless so he took refuge in a Lenin which is a recovery program for
family and friends of alcoholics remembering it's a heavy thing and I realized it wasn't
going to make a difference that's how he was on past tours while and brought along a sobriety
coach for support but he hadn't used one in years and on the road while Anna and his base is Tommy
black we're drinking buddies the two had been out late Wednesday on December 2nd 2015 in Chicago
where the wild abouts bus stopped after a show in Toronto the next morning according to a crew
member on the bus while and woke up at nine used the bathroom and then returned to bed some time
later after they arrived in Bloomington Minnesota black knocked on the singers door to invite him to
actress beau Allen didn't answer and this wasn't unusual Weiland was known for sleeping late and
that was one custom everybody observed if Scott's asleep then we leave him alone so when the band
and crew headed out to the Mall of America to shop for Christmas presents they left him behind like
always and in Los Angeles that same day his wife Jamie woke up with a text I read I'm so in love
with my beautiful wife and she called and texted Wyland's phone but got no response and it wasn't
like him not to get back to her especially on a day off with her remembering I just started
getting this weird agitated feeling in a 7 p.m. in Minnesota she called Aaron molar who was the
band's tour manager and a former Marine who promised to rouse the singer and around 8:00
p.m. molar entered the bus which was parked behind a Marriott Courtyard in and while one was lying on
his left side in a fetal position his hands were by his head and his eyes were half closed I shook
his leg and thought oh my god he's not moving I went to his shoulders and realized he was stiff
and Mahler will call drummer Joey Castillo who sprinted from the lobby he looked for a pulse
along Weiland's neck but couldn't find one and meanwhile Moeller dialed 9-1-1 remembering I
think he's dead he said to the dispatcher he's not breathing now Jamie still hadn't
heard anything so she kept redialing Mahler's cell which went straight to voicemail then a
crew member called her to break the terrible news honey he's dead he's not coming back and
I just fell to the floor Jamie remembered the last time Jamie Wallis aw her husband Scott alive the
couple spent a romantic Thanksgiving Day dining an Italian restaurant in New York the night before on
November 25th 2015 the former Stone Temple Pilots in Velvet Revolver frontman headlined the nearby
Gramercy Theatre with his backing band the wild abouts even though the couple was having a great
dinner together she did remember I think maybe I knew I was never going to see him again we
couldn't get enough of each other and it was very powerful and one week after that dinner together
Scott Weiland would be found dead on his tour bus from a toxic mix of drugs and his death was ruled