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Scott Weiland’s ex-wife writes open letter, says ‘don’t glorify this tragedy’
In this file photo, Scott Weiland and Mary Forsberg Weiland arrive at an event at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 21, 2007. On Monday, Rolling Stone published an open letter she wrote about his death.
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Less than a week after former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland died, his ex-wife and the mother of his two children penned an open letter for Rolling Stone. In the missive that was published on Monday, Mary Forsberg Weiland addressed the drawbacks of fame to artists and their families.
She wrote:
December 3rd, 2015 is not the day Scott Weiland died. ... The outpouring of condolences and prayers offered to our children, Noah and Lucy, has been overwhelming, appreciated and even comforting. But the truth is, like so many other kids, they lost their father years ago. What they truly lost on December 3rd was hope.
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“I don't share this with you to cast judgment, I do so because you most likely know at least one child in the same shoes,” wrote Forsberg Weiland.
She wrote the piece with help from Weiland’s two teenage children, according to the editorial note.
The letter concluded:
Let's choose to make this the first time we don't glorify this tragedy with talk of rock and roll and the demons that, by the way, don't have to come with it. Skip the depressing T-shirt with 1967-2015 on it – use the money to take a kid to a ballgame or out for ice cream.
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