The results of Scott Weiland’s toxicology report have been revealed, confirming what many fans have feared – that the Stone Temple Pilots legend died of a drug overdose.
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“The above named individual died of mixed drug toxicity”, a statement from the Hennepin Medical Examiner reads.
Weiland’s body was found on his tour bus in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington on December 3.
Bloomington police said they found cocaine in Weiland’s bedroom and elsewhere on the bus.
Weiland’s current band, Scott Weiland & the Wildabouts, had been scheduled to play a show in nearby Medina, Minnesota, before his death, but it had been cancelled a week earlier due to poor ticket sales.
Velvet Revolver frequently had to alter schedules to accommodate Weiland’s court appearances and spells in rehab, parting ways the following year, blaming the singer’s “erratic behaviour”. The man has been released.
Weiland went into different bands during the span of their band break as well as after their final split. The band’s 1992 debut album, “Core”, sold 8 million units.
Weiland had acknowledged a long history of cocaine and heroin abuse.
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He later returned to the reformed Stone Temple Pilots – but in 2013 they, too, ejected him from the band, claiming he had been “misappropriating” their name to further his solo career. He also pleaded guilty to felony heroin possession in 1998.
