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After the death of the former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman in the early morning of Friday 4 December, Scott Weiland's ex-wife has written a passionate, heartfelt and sincere letter on behalf of her grieving family for Rolling Stone magazine.
The singer, famous for his constantly evolving rock vocal style and heavy use of a megaphone on stage, died at the age of 48, although the cause of his death is still unknown.
In the extremely frank letter, Mary Forsberg Weiland, the mother of Scott's two teenage children, Noah, 15, and Lucy, 13, urges fans 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".
She also acknowledges the particular challenges she faced in dealing with the singer's drug use and wild lifestyle: "Even after Scott and I split up, I spent countless hours trying to calm his paranoid fits, pushing him into the shower and filling him with coffee, just so that I could drop him into the audience at Noah's talent show, or Lucy's musical."
In the final paragraph, however, she ends on a positive note for the future: "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".
You can read the full version of Mary Forsberg Weiland's letter at Rolling Stone.
