Noah Weiland, son of late Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland, mentioned his battle with drug dependancy and mentioned it had helped him perceive his dad higher.
Scott died of an overdose in 2015, whereas Noah, 21, descended into dependancy final yr after being fired from Suspect208, the band he’d shaped with Slash’s son London Hudson.
In a latest interview with iHeartRadio, Noah revealed he’d managed to take care of a rehab program after struggling at first. “I’ve a sponsor, I’m going to conferences, I’m higher with household,” he mentioned. “For a very long time… I simply didn’t wish to present my face as a result of I felt so ashamed and I felt like I simply needed to vanish. I lastly really feel like I’ve my confidence again and it’s good.”
The youthful Weiland additionally admitted that feedback relating to his dismissal gnawed at him. “Individuals wish to see me be a statistic so dangerous, I really feel like,” he mirrored. “There have been so many posts when the band ended and all of the feedback had been, ‘Oh, similar to his dad, similar to his dad.’” However Noah mentioned he discovered “a bit drive that makes me wish to do higher and say, ‘Even in case you’re born right into a household with dependancy you don’t should fall to the statistics.’ You might be nice.”
Regardless of feedback Scott made to the media in direction of the tip of his life, Noah mentioned his father hadn’t been near him or his sister. “I bear in mind my mother would get upset lots, as a result of she’d see him in interviews saying that we’d at all times be spending time with him… The final yr my dad was alive I feel we noticed him as soon as and it was for perhaps like an hour… The power I might bear in mind, as a result of I used to be 14, was he simply felt so off and so drained. All I can bear in mind is him seeming in a lot ache. Trying again, it felt prefer it was the final time I used to be going to see him.”
Noah has returned to music and he’s cautiously pursuing a solo profession, having lately launched new observe “One Day,” obtainable beneath. “I received a bit style of what success is like – a really tiny, tiny little style – and I’m glad that it didn’t take off as a result of I wasn’t round the correct folks,” he reported. “I [later] realized I couldn’t be going loopy and residing the life I used to be residing whereas there have been folks making an attempt to speculate cash in me and whereas the highlight was coming increasingly more on me.”
The fledgling rocker regretted not with the ability to ask Scott for recommendation about managing fame, however added: “As a result of I’ve needed to undergo the identical factor, the dependancy, I really feel nearer with him.”
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