Scott Weiland, shot to fame as frontman for 90s era grunge band Stone Temple Pilots and took the name literally. He was stoned most of the time, strung out on heroin, often with his wife Mary Forsberg Weiland at his side. She tells all in a new book.
Mary Weiland says they were shooting up so much they had to wear long sleeves at a Fourth of July party at the Malibu home of Leonardo DiCaprio to high the needle marks in their arms from the heroin.
That’s just one of the anecdotes Mary recounts about her time with Weiland and the band in her new memoir, “Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and Mental Illness.”
Weiland a former model and now divorced, wrote the book with former Esquire editor Larkin Warren. The book goes on sale Nov. 10, but you can buy it here.
She says she first met Scott when he was hired as a “go-fer” to drive her to modeling gigs for $8 an hour. I was the beginning of a relationship marked by all of the extravagance and decadence of rock ‘n roll.
Much of the time the couple spent together, they were doing drugs. “Scott would bring me a framed Neil Zlozower photograph of [Rolling Stone] Keith Richards; I’d lay out the goods right on top of Keith.”
Once while the power rock couple was attending a Playboy Mansion party Scott headed for the bathroom and disappeared: “I had no clue till much later that Scott’s time in the bathroom was spent with a crack pipe in his mouth,” she says.
Mary was pulled into the high-flying world of drug, sex and rock n’ roll as a 16-year-old model.
Her biggest claim to fame came in March 2007, when she dragged husband Scott’s pricey rock-star wardrobe to their driveway and torched it.
She was locked up in a mental hospital and diagnosed with a bi-polar disorder. Watching all this were her frightened extended family, and a conflicted husband wrestling with demons of his own. The tabloids called it the “Bonfire in Toluca Lake.”
“The bonfire was huge and very pretty. Everything went up in smoke quickly, except the shoe leather; the Guccis took the longest,” she writes. “The news reports said I’d torched $10,000 worth of Scott’s clothes, which was wrong by a factor of eight. He was somewhat insulted at their estimate: ‘Eighty thousand dollars, Mary,’ he said later.”
Stone Temple Pilots sold nearly 40 million records worldwide, including 17.5 million in the United States.
Fifteen singles hit the top ten on the rock charts, including six number ones, and 1994′s Purple hit No. 1 on the pop chart.
In 1994, the band won a Grammy for “Best Hard Rock Performance” for their song “Plush”. Stone Temple Pilots were also ranked at number 40 on VH1′s “The 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.”
Weiland’s drug addiction and run-ins with the law are credited with helping to break up the band.
Just finished the book. It was interesting. There’s a lot of information on addiction that was easy to relate too. Scott needs to write one now to balance things out so we can hear both sides of the story. Seems like he’s a ways off from that though. Either way it’s a good book.
do you know she is not going to donate proceeds to rehab center or charity? do you know she does not already do that? she is studying/learning to be an addiction counselor which in cali you have to have a a degree and a license for–that is work, it takes study and training, she is not sitting by the pool eating bon bons, and also she is talking about bipolar and how it is not well diagnosed or treated. you must be a comfortable person in your skin to judge who you do not know.
If she’s so altruistic then why doesn’t she just donate all the books proceeds to a rehab center or charity? Puh-leez.
I don’t care. It was comment made off-hand on a random website. Out of curiosity I checked other sites and it seems this is one of few sites that cares. You know what? You’re right, I haven’t done drugs. I’m not part of that club. I’m not jealous – you just don’t understand my logic and you’re assuming it’s based on an emotion like jealousy, Scott. Honestly, I’d struggle to relate to her life – and that’s my opinion. Just like my viewpoint of this woman’s intentions. It’s my viewpoint. I don’t care if you like it or not, but that is how the book initially comes across. Check out Huffington Post and go lambaste their readers who share a very similar sentiment. I’m happy you’re staying sober. Why don’t you write a book about it?
This book isn’t just about her relationship with scott, but her personal struggles with bipolar disorder!
Lasangre, do yu think books are only for your “benefit”? Do you know 4 a fact that Weiland’s wife “lives in luxury”? R U in a true position to judge someone else’s integrity. Or sobriety? Or intentions? Read it or not, buy it or not, but since you have already rejected it w/out knowing anything about it…
and BTW, in linguistics, when someone puts “but” in a sentence, it denies the part that came B4 it. So “I’m sorry, but” means you are not sorry. Just means you wanted the chance to slam. Noted.
Hello, apparently, you have not been touched by drug addiction? Sooner or later, you will be, but I hope not. Sure, she’ll make some money, but this is about the true horrors of addiction. You seem petty, I note your last sentence focusing on the “afford”, “luxurious”, you give yourself away with this last statement, that being the real motive of this stupid post, which is that you’re extremely jealous of either the fame, her looks, or probably both. Grow up and accept yourself. Heroin is some bad shit, it doesn’t care how pretty you are, or how wealthy. “easy buck”, becoming addicted to heroin is not an easy price to pay to write a book later about it. She’s lucky to be alive, blessed more like it. Why don’t you pray to whomever it is you pray to, if at all, for her help, and well, basically, Sit down, and SHUT THE FUCK UP!
I’m sorry, but how exactly are people supposed to benefit from this other than chisme? Exactly what fraction of the population fits this demographic? Is this to help all ex-model rockstar wives in a co-dependent heroin-addicted marriage? No, this book is rather embarrassing by airing out their dirty laundry so she can make an easy buck now that she isn’t married to her rockstar ex. How else can she afford the luxurious lifestyle other than selling out her integrity?
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