Its just a bunch of musicians talking about the music scene in the Seattle and surrounding areas.Theres a tiny bit about Demri in it. Demri's obituary. Barb just saw this quote from Kathleen on PaperPortraiture website: I was saddened to see so much misinformation still out thereI am responding to the post of 10/29 Remembering etc. Im very thankful for my daughter because for the first time I had to clean up and start to deal with things. Demri would be proud of you Maybe someday I will write that book but as of right now I do not have any concrete plans to do that.. and if I ever did write a book it would be about MY life not just theirs and then I would include stories that involved them but I could never write just a book about them.. to me that would be..weird, wrong possibly? Just not interested in other peoples opinions or stories, they bore me. I mean no disrespect with this question. Layne and Demri in the Sea of Sorrow video. Layne did mention that he was affected by Kurts death. At the time of her death, she was clean, but for her last hours, she was at a friends house, who took her to Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, Washington, and recognized too late that she wasnt doing well on the pills shed ingested. She died that night with her mother and aunt by her side. She was human. Not anymore thou. Her memorial service took place on November 2 at Neighborhood Christian Center, and donations were made to Harborview Adult Medicine Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation, Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. Personally, I have no idea exactly what happened, but I got a lot of stories. Thank you Ana and yes addiction destroys your body Thank you for bringing that up. There was no question about that. But in continuing with heroin and coke, she damaged her body more, to the point of no return. Also I do know Rachel was trying to be there for Layne after Demri died and he did let her but he said not romantically. e_wink.gif I was only then getting to know Layne and I liked him a lot. All the sources for the information Ive obtained are from her friends or family, so I trust them. But it is possible with hard work and TIME. Kathleen will verify the full name thing too. May the heavens help you beat this cancer! Nope.. i recently posted this link on another demri question, but check out this site if you want to know about her. It was copied and posted to several different places. When I spoke to Layne I was pissed off and crying, and told him what was going on at the house, but he pretty much already knew. David Lee Roth's opinion on Freddie Mercury and Queen Paul Stanley doesn't agree that Rock and Roll is dead Layne tried it, loved it. So go to youtube and search for this: However, there was infidelity on both ends, many described their relationship as open. I know she had siblings and her name changed from Murphy to Parrott at some stage (as per yearbook photo). Jerry was REALLY different back then. We welcome your contributions so please create an account if you would like to collaborate with other editor's in helping to shape this website. Friends comment that after Demri died, Layne was put on suicide watch for 24 hours. I go to ER find out i have endocarditis again because after u get ur valve replaced it can EASILY get infected again. I started to dislike him then. She was adopted by her stepfather Stephen John Parrott. If you need to talk to someone when times get tough just shoot me an email my address is boggs128@aol.com and I will chat with you. Was it a physical predisposition to everything out there? She was born Feb. 22, 1969, in Bremerton. Lol. I hope this doesnt sound silly, but I pray to Andrew and Demri sometimes. Miss Layne so much. Because that is not my story it is theirs.. even if I was a part of their story and they a part of mine. The sad parts of all of our lives are the MOST important cautionary tales on this website.. written for someone who needs to hear it or some kid or young adult who thinks they just wanna try heroin someday Do not do it! She was also bisexual, which was not as accepted in the early 90s as it is now, and there are some beautiful photos taken of her with a girlfriend. That is a horrible excuse some addicts may use to treat people badly, steal from people they know or physically hurt people.. thats all on them still. He loved Layne more than anything, I think even more than Courtney sometimes (Courtney as you all know was Jerrys on off gf.) Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. She stayed with whoever would let her in during her final year, and was taken in by the father of a friend. Thanks so much, your website and memories are so generous and appreciated. When did you lose hope, though? I dont think many people did, to be honest with you. Thank you for sharing, although I dont know if you revealed way too many private details. Around 94 Layne began to realize that to become clean and stay with her, she also needed to be clean. Andrew Wood. Adalsteinn, thank you so much for your kind comment so many years ago All the pain and suffering when their lives could have been filled with so much love and happiness. Im not sure if this message goes to Barbara, or not. Now whether or not Layne ever knew just how much I liked him, I dont know, but Demri knew. YES, IT IS POSSIBLE to get and stay clean but you have to do it for yourself. Despite never getting too involved, she is still my alpha and omega, my joy and sorrow, my beginning and my end. Heroin is a beast of a drug all its own in short or in laymans terms..it ruins your ability to be naturally happy. They started dating around spring or summer that year. She moved around to different high schools in the 1980s. But all the while enjoying experiences that you must cherish greatly, I imagine. Staley and Parrott met in 1988 while she was working at a store called Saturdays. I dont give a fuck if you fucking believe me or not, dude. They both wanted to live a normal life, get married, but the drugs stood in the way. 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. What a true tragedy heroin addiction is. The Sony people were trying to use me as eyes and ears to report backis he doin drugs? I just was smitten with Xana. I always hope to be able to tell myself if I become terminal someday that death is a part of life and hopefully itll bring me some comfort and I will look at it a different way. Can you send me the link and the time in the video where you see her? Demri Parrott was an American model. God bless you all. Heroin doesnt turn you into an asshole. But I wound up in Seattle , playing led guitar in the lare eighties and early nineties. More information. Why? Dearest Dem, I will forever miss you..you silly, sweet, wild and precious fairy child. The day I met Demri she was wearing them, along with cut-off jeans, and a cardigan shed had since gradeschool (apparently). She knew him off the drugs and on and had been there from the start. The statistic for heroin addicts who get clean and stay clean are actually depressing and shocking. For me, I was blesse dot have been there when it all happened ( Im from L.A. She was made weaker by the fact that shed contracted heart problems from the use of dirty and used cotton when she used heroin. Layne, I was yours for the asking, but you never asked. Demri Parrott passed away in October of 1996, one of the worst things to ever happen to Layne Staley. RIP. Anyway, once Demri died it was all over him because she knew him. Just some random thoughts I had. They both go through hell, together and apart, but the love they shared keeps them together, not as a couple, but as two people who will never leave one another, no matter what. About. I hope things are getting better for you and if not you hear me and please go get help. There are records showing that she prostituted in her last years, however Im not sure that her family want this discussed. I love it! I know Barb and so many others that knew Demri and Layne and were close to them, loved them dearly and that they are both very much missed. She was so young, so beautiful the tragic muse, a fairy. Poor girl. Layne would visit her often in hospital, and even flew from Germany to Seattle to attend an intervention that her friends and family arranged after their break-up. I guess its possible that he dated someone else for a short time in between but everybody knows that heroin addicts have major issues with impotency so its not like he was gonna be grinding away with someone else. Tags: Stop!! 2nd have some compassion or can you not readI have just been told I am dying of cancer and yes I have kids too and am a single parent at that with bills as wellso I understand all to well and I too am a recovering addictI in no way was ugly to no-one whatsoever!!!!!! Thanks for keeping this site up. Demri was born in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, in the United States of Americas Pacific Northwest. Amen. I really appreciate this site. It was missing something. I didnt go to shows and I was ecpected to. Its such a shame that these 2 talented people were taken from their families and friends at such young ages. She was talking to another guy right behind Layne and she was wearing black shirt and shorts. REMEMBER Layne and Demri. One story has Demri trying to kick drugs & dating a coke dealer in the final days of her life. Nothing would have made her happier than to know her name will forever be attached to Layne's memory. Beautiful Country, would love to visit. The website will forever live on my server for those seeking to learn a little more. Let their legacy be one of art and discovery, friendship and love. Thank you for this site, and these photos, and your memories. I have the second version and it was at the bookstore and we got it for like $20 or so. He was known for his distinctive vocal style and tenor voice, as well as his harmonizing with guitarist/vocalist . Will has a decent range but hes no Layne and that era has passed and theyre just not as good as they used to be, which leads me to believe that Layne was responsible for a lot of why old Alice in Chains kicked ass. Im trying to post a comment and a link to a video, but all that appears when I try to publish it in this site is: your comment is awaitting moderation!! Last Updated: May 2, 2022: View Complete Profile. Yes, she was sick from herion, but so was Marilyn. It might have been here. In the 1980s Demri was adopted by her then step-father Dennis Murphy and she used his surname too, going by Demri Murphy but never legally changing her name. She was vacant, self-serving and morally bankrupt. The previous year she had suffered pancreatitis. Anyway sorry I could not be more helpful. (1969-1996) model, artist, grunge icon, beautiful soul He started doing this whole big martyred thing in the press Im standing by Layne, even though its making me sufferrrrrrr! but in private he was slipping the knife in. Aalsteinn, Hi Xana! I found the video I think but did not see any girl Thank you. but I wanted to make a note on the message posted by D but written by koa know that runs online for about 8 years I know for sure because we put the message in alternativegrunge forum in Italy .. to make him jealous. They were both hardcore heroin addicts and much of their life and their relationship was very, very ugly. Ive been thinking a lot lately about Andrew, Demri, Layne etc, because Im currently waiting for a bed to open up at a detox facility to hopefully help me kick this awful ten-year addiction to painkillers. I went to the video and checked and I dont think its Demri because: 1. Alice in Chains was opening for Van Halen on tour in 1991 when Staley, prompted by Parrott,. You will be ok. Love lots of love. Demri lost that place in Feb. Because she could no longer afford the rent on her own. I think the Laynes Place being referred to was the Ward Street house they both lived in with both of their stuff. They didnt want people to be too scared to call them. That means 13 times she was clean. They were always fine with my vegetarian dishes but I wanted to get some nutrients in them and meat on their bones, which is pretty much all I could really do to help. When I called Christy about Demris Wake she asked what happened because Demri had just been there Monday night, which was the 28th which matched with Tom. After a long time of trying to stop and being unsuccessful you willingly succumb to ityou just give up!!! What do I have to do? It is even hard this far out but so freeingI have terminal cancer and if I could I would have love to have given your daughter whatever it was in me to make this happen so she could be here with you Addiction is a disease and one we need to address in this country very seriously without all the judgementWe shall just pray for all the negative talk out there if there is and the ironic thing is that it is those that judge other addicts that will discover it is in their own family! Makes me scared to have children. I also want to be straight up about why Demri, Layne, Rosheen and Mike are gone now theyre stories should never be romanticized. remember her asking me super-direct questions like, So, hows the sex between you and Angela? And I was like, Oh, my God, you cant talk about this! Did pick up the phone for him and speak to John Wayne Gacy and didnt know til I hung up, every place else was an apt. Then I read this post and it all made sense who this Koa is and what her role might have been in their lives. Then management needs to discuss the contents with the bandlet them know its a brotherhood or sisterhood. I was neglecting EVERYONE even my daughter when sick and when High I just wasnt worried about it. It helped me get the guts to start learning to play guitar, something Ive wanted to do for a long time! Seems like it takes much courage and heart to do so. Best Of Luck to you Ms. Jacqueline from Scotland. I hated that no one knew who she was. Rest in peace beautiful angels. She did her movies, needed a babysitter for many, but she got through it all. 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. I know that you have a busy life, but Ill never forget that you emailed me info on Demri, such as her liking of decoupage with Angels & Victorian art, which she used & put on boxes as gifts for friends. 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 didnt wish to get in an argument here I dont think its appropriate but I think it was just a misunderstanding. She is buried at Ivy Green Cemetery Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, USA. 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. Anway hope you continue to find this website informative and fun to visit. Jerry started to stay away from Layne though. If you want to sign up to get notified of our website updates.. please enter your email address into the form at the bottom of the right hand sidebar. Just because we cant see something/someone, doesnt mean theyre not there. my girlfriend Angela. I do think that Demri deserves more appreciation in her own right, though. Jerry is one of the best melody writers ever, and Layne was a virtuoso vocalist and obviously his lyrics resonate with so many people. 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. Hearing how so many of your friends relapsed makes it obvious just how addicting heroin is and how strong of a grip it has. AiC was playing a show that night at an old fire station in Redmonddo you remember that place? I dont think you can get shorter from heroin abuse Im not sure though, from what I know the only way to actually get shorter is from getting old, and thats because you will slowly lose the cephalorraquid liquid thats between every vertebra (I dont know how to say that in english lol, the vertebras are the little bones that form the column), but maybe affected his posture like you said Liz still there are a whole bunch of other side and long term effects, Ive read that heroin is the most addictive opiate right after desomorphine (its like heroin little cousin only nastier), and its getting pretty big un Rusia, Ucrain, and starting to come to my country, too. As mean and selfish as it may sound for an addict to abandon their loved ones THATS exactly what I am talking about! T urning the steering wheel hard to the right and stomping his foot on the gas, Alice in Chains ' lead singer, Layne Staley, accelerates full speed into the back of a . Its like someone out there looking for a job and you cant find one but you keep trying and trying but after a while you just give in to the fact that its not going to happen and you stop trying. To clarify Demri was in the hospital at least 13 times I know of each time 2-4 months from 93 to 96 which didnt leave much time for her to get in trouble. You do that on your own! Yes, shes there. She knew that, and she took full advantage of it. Dem had gifts, she was not tortured she was a very old soul. Especially a timeless celebrity like Layne Staley who left behind such a powerful legacy of music that continues to be important to so many people. He told me that he Ill try to sum this up as much as i can. Its a terrible disease and I have seen so many patients that I treated and transported from the streets of Detroit that had it from shooting up. I have been to many drug places. Ughhh, whats the need? Just let them know youll be there when theyre ready to get clean. Staley couldn't 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. She introduced him to heroin, though he probably was doing other drugs before her, such as coke. Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell took care of the cat Sadie when Layne died. Demri died on Oct. 29th of 96 of a heroin overdose. But not anymore. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Layne and Demri's relationship made me come to terms with the fact that some people in your life will just drill a hole in your head and insert themselves there and there's nothing you can do to ever get them out. It is not that great. He had me come and look at it to see and meet the landlord. Her religion is listed as Christian. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Large gallery of Demri Parrott pics. Rosheen was clean at the time and doing awesome.. but then she relapsed and on June 19th 1997 she passed awayshe was only 22 years old. And, as I mentioned, there are a lot of true facts in the story but I dont know what to make out of it as a whole. Born Demri Lara Parrott on 22nd February, 1969 .
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