Noah Weiland, son of late Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, recently disputed the widely reported cause of his father’s passing.
During an interview with Painful Lessons, Noah provided his theory about what really happened to the rock icon when directly asked about how his father passed away. Noah shared his belief about his father’s death, rejecting the common claim of a drug overdose.
He stated he doesn’t trust his former stepmother, but agrees with her on one point — he strongly believes his father likely died of a heart attack.
Noah explained his reasoning behind this belief. He connected it to years of physical strain on his father’s body.
“So, they all tried to write it off like, ‘Oh he overdosed’. And to be honest, I’m just going to be flat out. I don’t really like the woman who was once my stepmom but I will say that what she probably isn’t lying about is that, and that I would bet more than anything is that he had a heart attack.”
“And because all the years of like abusing his body right it catches up,” he continued. “Eventually it’s like there’s only so much your body can take. He was about to be 50 and so I think it was a heart attack, basically. I mean I think that makes the most sense.”
The younger Weiland also addressed his father’s substance use in the final years of his life.
“The last years of his life, he wasn’t on heroin. He wasn’t on opiates. He was drinking, Xanax and was on Suboxone for like a long time which is like obviously a lot,” he said. “And that shouldn’t be for anyone’s body’s consumption on the regular but the thing is like I still think he was trying. And he wasn’t just like doing it all like consistently.”
Noah’s claims about his father’s cause of death contrast with the official findings from the investigation into Scott Weiland’s passing in December 2015.
