It was for that, not because he was mean or wanted to date, he just wanted them both to get well and even said he wished Rehab had Co-Addictive Behavior Counselling for couples, which I was trying to help with at Wickenburg. Thanks for visiting the website and sharing the video but that video has been around for awhile and it is not Demri.. Drugs are not fun, and will never try again. She adopted Parrott as her surname after her mother, Kathleen A. Austin married Stephen John Parrot. Happy to hear youve enjoyed it. Demri Lara Parrott Murphy (February 22nd 1969 - October 29th 1996) was an American model, artist, and muse, and an amateur actress, girlfriend and later fiancee of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley. I wrote the following tweetstorm to remember her (and him) for the occasion: Most, if not all of that material was in my book, where Layne and Demri's relationship and her . You know that feeling you get throughout your body when you accomplish a goal and you are gratified? You need to be happy. Regarding kids I think Layne wanted to have a family. I remember the first time I heard AIC I was living close to the beach and just started smoking weed and I surfed every day. Its easy for people to judge and if they can stick with you during good and bad thats a wonderful thing. She was the "it" girl in Seattle in the early 90s and anyone who knew her and the club scene at the time I doubt would argue with me on that.". However, their addictions caused damage to the relationship and they broke off their engagement. Anyway sorry I could not be more helpful. I think this is Rachel that made Andys purple hand hat. The drs told my family that my chances didnt look good because the infection was too out of control n i probably wouldnt make it through surgery. Layne was okay until the last night of the tour. I hate to stop before I am finished with something and will work 72 hours straight to get something finished no matter what even being my own boss. They can seduce you and make you feel like nothing else can be as good to you. Beautiful Country, would love to visit. She had been clean for a little while before she went in and shot heroin with that guy she was dating. Laynes riff with Jerry was for telling him he needed to go to rehab and not going himself, hearing Laynes solo music and taking it to the band and borrowing his 8-track and erasing his stuff with Maynard (I dont think Jerry noticed it was on there). I dont think a lot of people understand how much damage it does. Ya I mess up and say it (we had nicknames) but also it was to motivate her to add a little fuel under her butt and remember she had a purpose for being here. That girl looks like shes afraid of Demri, or what Demri is saying to her, while Demri looks totally relaxed, lol. XANA LA FUENTE Innocent yet provocative. Thats how Andrew described Demri when he first saw her. Once he moved to that place, I didnt talk to him. But, either way, I just wanted to say what a beautiful site and all the loving comments about a side of Layne that most of us would have never had the chance hear about. He showed up in the recording studio toothless, emaciated and looking like an 80-year-old man. You can read more about her on her FB tribute page. Thats when he came back and Demri left. Thanks for your honest opinion when you look at it like that its true im thinking of friends from 16yrs ago and even if someone wrote a book on me that facts are so not lined up with who i really am Alice in Chains was opening for Van Halen on tour in 1991 when Staley, prompted by Parrott,. She knew him off the drugs and on and had been there from the start. This site https://icepicksandnukes.com/2011/12/16/setting-the-alice-in-chains-record-straight/ will let you fact check and their are some concert's where he talks pretty negative about her stealing and selling their equipment, etc. Staley couldnt bring himself to join Cantrell on stage after being asked, and a photo taken of him backstage is the last image of the singer before his death. Then I read this post and it all made sense who this Koa is and what her role might have been in their lives. For a few years they were madly in love and even got engaged. Layne loved Clean Demri it gave him hope. Especially if youre their parents, siblings or children. and this: watch?v=LL29f0AehNI But I guess thats the nature of celebrity. Bigs hugs! She had her friends, and Layne, who made sure someone was always there to look after her. Demri didnt die till the morning of the 29th, in her mothers arms at the hospital. I dont think that her and Layne had a healthy relationship and I dont think it should be idealised. Stop!! There was nothing about her that was so special that it would have stood out all on its own. He always kept saying that he had slipped. Most of what everyone heard then was nonsense. If I didnt have anything I just wanted to give up and not go to work I have no idea how I made it through it because I called in with the flu a lot. It doesnt seem right to me that they continue the band because there is no improvement. People dont seem to understand how much Demri suffered the last 2-1/2 years of her life spent mostly in hospital several times on life support given hours to live or that she didnt complain and was always more concerned about others than herself. The website will forever live on my server for those seeking to learn a little more. JOHNNY BACOLAS I recall many nights when I was living with Layne, Demri would come to the house and after Id go to bed, she would just open my door, sit at the edge of my bed with a bag full of potato chips, chew really loud, and just talk. I cant stop wat other people write but I hate seeing stupid stuff written so flippantly on sites like tumbler twisting around good peoples word. im not an angel either, no one is, but alchohol is my stupid drug, whish it wasnt so, makes you fat and sick. Finally, best of luck if you write a book Muself, I would love to produce a film documenting all of this. Courtney Love, center, tried to chase down Staley following the death of Kurt Cobain (r.), to see if he might've known something about the mysterious circumstances surrounding Cobain's death. I also thing its amazing how they found such amazing friends along the way who stuck with them during the hardest times! We all make mistakes in life, and Demri did struggle with addiction. And what does Jerrys songwriting abilities have to do with him being an asshole? From the same photo shoot as the picture . 04/05/93|04/05/02 One day she fell unconscious in his car while he went into a grocery store. Yes, she was sick from herion, but so was Marilyn. I dont update it much but sometimes I add to the pages more.. like I did this one recently. It turns my stomach. He was a coke dealer. This may be too personal to ask, but I have been curious. It means so much to me. We talked about how we KNEW that AiC was going to be the biggest band in the world, and she insisted that I tell Layne that, because he didnt believe it coming from his girlfriend. I wouldnt call her suicidal but definitely self destructive. I agree with you D and Eric, in different things a lot of that just sounds to made up..and even if Jerry is a bit arrogant or has this kind of personality-which Ive read somewhere of him being a bit hard on Layne-it doesnt mean hes not a good personShe paints him like such a BAD GUY! So much more, I wish that email had been saved, but with an updated computer & such, Ive lost it. Actually, the best of times was when everyone was just strung out on booze, coke and sex the basic musts on any rocker's CV. Career: Model, Artist, Muse, and Actress. I do know someone who read Mike Starr biography thing he did and said he really had tickets on himselfhe couldnt express enough how much women loved him. Why? Its too late. Dating seems illogical. Ethnicity: Native American (Cherokee), Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, and Swiss-German descent . They can numb you from all the pain. The would cut and bag their heroin. i was born after demris passing but reading about her and seeing her photos is truly enchanting. Demri was born in the Pacific Northwest, in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington. Thank you again, Layne. Hi Barbara, I was just checking in to see if there are any new posts an I noticed your comment about the books. I also do NOT recommend enabling or helping addicts stay in their addiction by loaning them money or letting them stay with you.. especially if their addiction is messing up your own daily lifebut I also dont recommend calling them names or hating on them either they do that enough to themselves already. Layne Staley died on April 5, 2002. I too adore the photo of Demri on the couch, didnt she have the prettiest, most elegant little hands?! Those pictures are breathtaking. That means 13 times she was clean. AIC has always been a huge impact on me personally (and musically). I hope things are getting better for you and if not you hear me and please go get help. But I wound up in Seattle , playing led guitar in the lare eighties and early nineties. I dont know where he went though, and even the people who he rented from thought he was still living there. I will forever cherish our short time together. I used to live off Denny with Rosheen and Demri stayed with us alot so it was very easy for me to picture the scene when you found your poor sister. Demri Lara Parrott Murphy was an amateur actress, girlfriend, and later fiancee of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley, who lived from February 22, 1969 to October 29, 1996. I know he was taking care of Layne and buying groceries and making sure he was eating and cared for. I know Demri got endocarditis as a result of heroin use, and all of the trouble that caused her. (At the time, Layne didnt know what happened with MS. Id heard it from one of the people I knew who also lived there. to make him jealous. The opposite occurred, she cut off contact with Layne save for minor interactions, she hustled to get money for smack. She had affairs with other men and women, he had his own affairs with women. Hope the families will at some point be more forthcoming as well. I was iving heroin for 8 years when i suddenly came down with what i thought was the flu. Tags: Please I beg of you. If I worked at Microsoft and went to Rehab I guarantee my coworkers wouldnt be coming to hash out work problems. BECAUSE YOU ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED!! I have no clue where or how that rumor ever got started but it is for sure not Demri. Much love to you. I completely understand this, and I dont expect that everyone should like her, nor do I wish to make her into an angel or saint; she wasnt. Many of us found them through Laynes music, which has evoked so much feeling and emotion from my heart and I just want to learn anything that I can from someone who actually knew & loved them. Shane came along and started talking shit about how nobody commented on Oct 29th and I said people have their own lives to live meaning that I dont monitor this site every single day and I have relatives that have died and friends that Ive known personally that have died. Yes, shes there. Prayers for those trying to beat opiate addiction out there. See more News You may also like. Thats all I wanted to say. 17 talking about this. You also made people smile and giggle and anyone who was ever part of your life no matter how long or how short.. will NEVER forget you. Services will be 10 a.m. Nov. 4 at Silverdale Baptist Church. He was usin. I was in a situation to where EVERYTIME I would get high I would be happy to know I would be quitting after this last time only to fall asleep and wake up and be in a totally different mind frame of freaking out with anxiety and trying desperately to get more. Well I highly recommend it. You have to completely get away from your environment you used in like the whole city you gotta find all new friends and you need to want it more then anything else!! She was apparently very chatty, witty and loud. Band manager Susan Silver told Staley that he had to be the one to break it to ticket buyers that the concert was going to end midperformance because he was too screwed up to carry on. Young, but very sexy. A year after his death, a rare interview emerged with Staley that hed given with Argentinean writer and music fan Adriana Rubio, titledLayne Staley: Angry Chair A Look Inside the Heart and Soul of an Incredible Musician. The second one has just a part of the interview becouse it also has Primus and Tool too, but the image quality is better. I was encouraged even more to see that people actually came here to read it and asked for more. During those years, Staley became a recluse and barely left his apartment. Besides the fact that it is even more depressing that he died at such a young age of 34 when he had so much more to give at what could have been his prime years as a vocalist, his sudden death still leaves us with lingering questions and wondering what more he could have accomplished and what other albums Alice in Chains could have given us would Makes total sense that D and L were soulmates. I wanted to also check in on you and see how youre doing with your recovery and your heart? According to Tom he drove out to Fred Meyer past Wedgewood where Demri spent half the summer (before moving into Juliets) and he went shopping. They went down to QFC and he asked her to wait in the car while he ran into the store to buy a few things. I changed my number. Barbara thanks for putting your heart into this and also for educating people about drugs. However I also want her to know others have been there before and youre not alone. He obviously didnt have the strength. Previous article If you are interested in promoting your band/music email altnationadvertising @gmail.com RELATED. You were making fun of it and you crooned the line you are so superduper bravissimo to me like the big goofball that you were. Im very thankful for my daughter because for the first time I had to clean up and start to deal with things. Thanks again!! She had three younger half-brothers from her mother's side, Devin Remme, and Derek and David Murphy; and a younger half sister from her biological father's side, Christa Dougherty. I just hope you are able to get well again and I hope whatever happens you are able to find peace with it. That crap about the model and Layne I would bet money thats not true. Staley was found dead, toothless and weighing only 86 pounds, in his Seattle apartment in 2002. "I pay you," she screamed back. Just stop! Thanks for all you are sharing. Im determined to fight this demon, and be a better daughter, sister, aunt and friend to those who love me. Thinking about both of them yesterday and today, and what might have been. Laura. Not a day goes by when I dont think of the both of them. Was that not what Demri was trying to say? Instead, the Alice in Chains singer later began withdrawing from public spaces but was able to avail himself at the 1997 Grammy Awards and a few other appearances. Which makes the seductive drugs become even more powerful. She had her own connections for buying heroin and she could afford that, but it was LAYNES fault that she got sick b/c he hadnt bought her cotton before he left. She was a lover of the arts and theater. I dont know who wrote it but if it was Kathleen I would guess that she could not mention everyone and I bet a lot of important people were not mentionedbecause only Demri really knew who mattered the most to her just like you only know who is really important to you. It has been very therapeutic for me over the years and it has helped to keep Demris memory alive and has introduced her name to so many who never knew who she was which was my original goal. Actually I was bothered by it though. Demri Parrott. She was made weaker by the fact that shed contracted heart problems from the use of dirty and used cotton when she used heroin. She was really sweet and really cool. Start a new life and meet new friends otherwise its always a phone call away and for addicts its just to easy to make that call. The last public appearance he made was almost four years before his death when he attended his bandmate Jerry Cantrells solo concert in Seattle on Halloween in 1998. Mike, Rosheen, Andrew Wood and now sadly.. the list grows.. Chris Cornell who was an amazing man, husband and Father and Friend. This was neither the beginning nor the end of Staley's sufferings that he was trying to get rid of it for years. Regardless, they were engaged for a short time. Their children. Until America recognizes the addict is sick have compassion try to help not enable stand up to the Government to look at Portugal & the actions they took it worked sadly it is scary how the future looks. Demri made a mess of the house and the living situation in Laynes absence. God bless her, and God bless Layne, not just because I feel for them both, but because I hope that both are pain free in Heaven. So for all the AIC fans who hate Demri because of this, you are all wrong. It sounds far fetched but then thinking that we just turn off like a light bulb is also way too hard for me to accept. Without happiness in your life life is not worth much. But, most fans are there while youre on top. I understand that Jerry started doing cocaine again around this time. . It is an extremely powerful demon drug that can steal your life and your inner strength faster then youll have control of. Staley lived his last days in his condo in Seattle. Bottom line they both had to want it and they were convinced that only people who mixed alcohol and heroin (as in getting so drunk you forget what and how much you used) is the only thing that could kill you. I guess most all questions have been answered on this lovely site. She was around five feet tallmaybe even shorterand was stunningly beautiful. I have noticed that Layne is very tall, upright in his earlier career. He lived through it, but they were kicked out of the apartment. WTF are you talking about? I am glad Rosheen knew how much she mattered, because that is what really counts anyway. His family, bandmates, and manager, Susan Silver reached out to help him but couldnt. I wish Demri had that same desire, to want to be an actress/model, who read books, studied acting. Just rude and no respect Or those already gone like Demri and Layne.. best thing they can come up with is they have a life to live??? Demri Parrott - Biography Demri Parrott was an American artist who was born on February 22, 1969. I see a lot of conjecture and guessing about the nature of these relationships and its bugged me for years. Hi Susan, my name is Layla and I saw your comment about your cancer situation. It was Layne and Demri and they had to find me to tell me they started doing dope and how wonderful it was, and right then I knew they Yes, she introduced Layne to heroin, yes, they both got caught up in it, but she didnt want to stop, though Layne tried. Was it a physical predisposition to everything out there? The talent and beauty he had surrendered to drug addiction and the rest was due to depression due to his drug use so all of it was due to heroin. SORRY, but no one Ive known has ever STAYED clean for someone elses sake, because theyve been shamed or guilt tripped into getting clean. I dont know. Her true fans have compassion. Thank you for your story. Dear Barbara, thanks so so much for this post. She was only 27.Alice in Chains manager Susan Silver told journalist Greg Prato in his book "Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music" that she was the one who went to Layne's apartment to tell him that Demri had died. Ela faleceu em 29 de outubro de 1996 de endocardite, uma inflamao do corao, causada por uma overdose de herona, no Hospital Evergreen em Kirkland, Washington. I could not have put it better.Recovering addict myself. Why wouldnt she stay with Layne, or anyone, always running, to and fro, even before she got sick? No clue.. maybe they didnt even know Rosheen was as important as she was to Demri. Ive been writing on this website now for at least 4-5 years and before that I would write about my memories on my personal blogs (Divageekdesigns.com and ibdreamy.livejournal.com) when I was missing them or whateverbut those posts got so much attention.. over the years that I finally decided to create a website dedicated to them. What always stood out to me was her sense of self. Do you know if you have the first version or the second? I have the second version and it was at the bookstore and we got it for like $20 or so. Im not sure if this message goes to Barbara, or not. His father was an addict as well. Regardless, you have done great justice to remembering your friends. My hope is people considering trying heroin or opiates in general just one time will read your story and Demris story and think twice. But I will say this: Jerry saw this coming. xx. I am thinking more of teens I have been watching grow up from their young years. Thank u to everyone who takes the time to read this ! He loved Layne more than anything, I think even more than Courtney sometimes (Courtney as you all know was Jerrys on off gf.) Layla, Ummmm people still have lives to live sir, No need to apologizeIt just shows you careI was just giving you another way to think of it but not like the person behind me answeredsaying others have lives to live etcthat is selfish and narcissistic as you know what! Theyd have taken her by the arms, and said, I remember looking out your window at the docks one time while you were on the computer, and I was making you listen to some stupid old song because I thought it was cool. "Died" is a song by Alice in Chains and the final one recorded with vocalist Layne Staley before his death in 2002. "Demri HATED being known as Layne's girlfriend. Thank you for this wonderful website. Now for the more positive things: Demri Parrott (which I recently found out was pronounced Puh-Row) was described by everyone who knew her as a bubbly, charismatic and beautiful girl. I know thats super personal n i thought i remember Barbara saying she didnt know specifics on what exactly happened. Hi Amber, I was shocked to see how much you have shared about Layne and Demris life. Bless you, get well, and have a Happy New Year filled with love, happiness, and joy. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thank you for sharing about Demri. 5' (152 cm) Demri Parrott body shape: Slim What color are Demri Parrott's eyes? I know I have no chance. 22 ubat 1969'da doan,29 ekim 1996'da vefat eden layne staley 'in bi zamanlar nianls,sevgilisi,arkada. Im not saying they were gay, lol! She would be in there for months at a time following serious operations on her heart that left a foot long scar on her chest, and she had a pacemaker installed. I think shes someone that facinates many people, and from what Ive read, she probably would have been equally facinating to know even if she wasnt Laynes girlfriend. Im all up for experimenting with certain things with responsability but heroine, cocaine, meth and those kind of drugs are out of the question. (Terry McGinnis/WireImage). Thanks Dave! Best Of Luck to you Ms. Jacqueline from Scotland. Still, according to the Amber report, Demri was able to get help and quit using drugs. Just let them know youll be there when theyre ready to get clean. In a few days it will be 24 years since her passing, and Id really love to honour her just by sharing some of the things Ive read about her; good and bad. And thank you very much for your attention and respect with us fans! For those that have been debating on whether to buy it or not, I say, save your money. I have seen people/myself go from great people to completely changed. Barbara D. I wish they were still hear every time I listen to him sing I cry its so sad Ive been fighting my addictions for 20 years its a daily struggle but the music keeps me alive for now I pray there together energy doesnt die the spirit is forever. EVER. I know this is an old post but why did you put Demris name in quotes? Anniversary of Dems passing & a note from her Mom, Darin Lamb One of Layne Staleys Best Friends. His body took a while to die, but his spirit lived on, as did Demris, after her passing. Adalsteinn, thank you so much for your kind comment so many years ago Best thing people can do is move away from everything you know and everyone you know that makes it easy. It was missing something.

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