Kiss star Gene Simmons called for an end to the entertainment world’s “stupid fascination” with drug addition.
He added that he was writing a book about his experiences with victims of the problem, and also revealed that he had issued warnings to Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley before his drug-related death in 2002, as well as to Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland before he died in 2015 under similar circumstances.