Noah Weiland, son of late Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, not too long ago disputed the broadly reported reason behind his father’s passing.
Throughout an interview with Painful Classes, Noah offered his concept about what actually occurred to the rock icon when straight requested about how his father handed away. Noah shared his perception about his father’s loss of life, rejecting the widespread declare of a drug overdose.
He said he doesn’t belief his former stepmother, however agrees along with her on one level — he strongly believes his father seemingly died of a coronary heart assault.
Noah defined his reasoning behind this perception. He related it to years of bodily pressure on his father’s physique.
“So, all of them tried to put in writing it off like, ‘Oh he overdosed’. And to be sincere, I’m simply going to be flat out. I don’t actually like the lady who was as soon as my stepmom however I’ll say that what she most likely isn’t mendacity about is that, and that I’d wager greater than something is that he had a coronary heart assault.”
“And since all of the years of like abusing his physique proper it catches up,” he continued. “Finally it’s like there’s solely a lot your physique can take. He was about to be 50 and so I feel it was a coronary heart assault, principally. I imply I feel that makes essentially the most sense.”
The youthful Weiland additionally addressed his father’s substance use within the ultimate years of his life.
“The final years of his life, he wasn’t on heroin. He wasn’t on opiates. He was consuming, Xanax and was on Suboxone for like a very long time which is like clearly quite a bit,” he stated. “And that shouldn’t be for anybody’s physique’s consumption on the common however the factor is like I nonetheless assume he was attempting. And he wasn’t identical to doing all of it like constantly.”
Noah’s claims about his father’s reason behind loss of life distinction with the official findings from the investigation into Scott Weiland’s passing in December 2015.