Three Dog Night singer Chuck Negron revealed in a new Fox News interview that he was set to meet with Kurt Cobain in April 1994. He described how the Musicians’ Assistants Program (MAP), which provides members of the music community access to addiction recovery treatment, reached out to him with a special request.
“I got a call from Buddy Arnolds, who started the program, and he said, ‘Kurt Cobain is at this hospital, and I just visited him. He would like to meet you,’” said Negron. “He wasn’t aware of my music… He was aware of my being a world-class junkie. He wanted to meet the junkie that got clean.”
Negron agreed, but the next day, he was told the Nirvana singer was “a little fragile and embarrassed,” causing the meeting to be put on hold. A week later, he would hear Cobain’s name again.
“They called me again and they said, ‘You need to come down and speak to him,’” he explained. “The next day I was getting ready to leave and they called me and said, ‘He jumped out the window and left.’ He could have walked right out the door, it’s not a prison. He was just so ashamed he snuck out and a couple of days later he killed himself. And I know that hopelessness, that despair when you just give up.”
Cobain was found dead at age 27 in 1994 from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
