Also Layne hid that he used drugs even when people knew he didnt advertise it by being associated with it. So I just admit that I do not have the answers. I cant say I know much about her, but in the end, I hate the idea of romanticizing two junkies seemingly feeding off of each other. I meant she never *tapped out* not tapped it Ugh! I have noticed that Layne is very tall, upright in his earlier career. Layne was trying to quit EVERYthing at this time (he even attempted quitting smoking) and Sean was still bringing pot around everytime they would get together.
The Woman Who Was Accused Of Causing The Death Of Layne Staley Demri suffered endocarditis (an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium, that can be caused by a bacterial infection. Well I highly recommend it. Layne knew this and its why her passing just crippled him. I can see where someone would think it was her if they did not know her personally.. you know how you could pick out your best friends from just a shadow or the back of their head well that is how I am as well and that is not her.
Demri Parrott - IMDb Thank you so much for sharing your story it means a lot and people who do not understand need to hear it. That Jerry just wanted to keep Layne well so he could keep the band together. Thanks for your compassion. Not Demri, sorry. were goners. Heroin doesnt turn you into an asshole. At least, Layne came first. I also have been a person who had/has major responsibilities and grew up in a household where I was the adult and my parents were the kids and I started numbing myself and on the slow suicide. Doesnt mean I want them in my life. Soon I heard he had passed on. Get over yourself and if you remember to comment then be positive and stop snapping at people. Layne not accepting this, but hes starting to feel the pain also. Just from her pictures you feel love what a beautiful person she was and I cannot imagine how she is missed by all who new her.I feel fortunate to have found this site and kinda feel as if I got to somehow get some insight to what a beautiful person she truly was.We all now get to experience why she is so deeply missed by her family and friends.Thank you for introducing us to her.RIP. I went to the ER and had ct and mri and found out i had endocarditis. Having been an avid fan of grunge for well over 20 years, I had always wondered about those references to Demri in relation to Laynes demise. I think what we could do for the fallen heroin addicts is change. 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 . I know it sounds crazy but Im begging you to check it out. PONY MAURICE (Feast singer) I kind of fell in love with Xana and Demri for a while. But miraculously i stabilized and had open heart surgery to replace my valve..im so sorry this is so long but im not done yet. Love to you all, from Scotland Haha. Hi Amber, I was shocked to see how much you have shared about Layne and Demris life. But he never said so outright. Again thank you. But I hope that you will. Id last about 3 days. Demri went to rehab a few times and she had a pig valve in her heart. Layne and Demri in the Sea of Sorrow video. I was put into an induced coma for 6 days on a ventilator. Also how she would decorate her hospital room with the same. But, when you have someone over 6ft tall and weighing under 90 lbs, its time to step in. Please go to a support group. When he came back from tour he moved back in until the band went down to do Rock in Rio. She did her movies, needed a babysitter for many, but she got through it all. I think Jerry really was sincere, too, at least back then. The comments above and below have provided a welcome clarity on the Demri/Layne situation after MUCH reading for the last few days. A Subreddit for anything Alice in Chains related. You are the only one on the internet who knows about those days, and any info on Demri, Layne, Chris, Andy, or others in the Seattle Grunge Scene would be appreciated. Who would your Mom or Dad or best friend mention in your Obit? She had three younger half-brothers from her mothers side, Devin Remme, and Derek and David Murphy; and a younger half sister from her biological fathers side, Christa Dougherty. To be honest.. Ive never read Demris obituary but wed have to ask the person who wrote it why Rosheen was not mentioned.. maybe they did not want to confuse people? The place was supposed to be for both. You need to be happy. For some reason I always thought it would be better to go out with an OD because then it wouldnt be a surprise and maybe my family wouldnt be as upset as they would with a suicide. I guess Im looking at the wrong fb pages. Yes, she was so beautiful, and the love of his life. But if people who love Demri dont come to talk about her, other people will do, however, not always with good intentions and you know this! Not heroin, but pills and marijuana. Know that you are loved, and that we all care about you. Layne was flipping through the channels and stumbled on the John Edward show Crossing Over, on which a medium claimed to speak to audience members dead relatives. There are records showing that she prostituted in her last years, however Im not sure that her family want this discussed. They dated for 2 years after getting together in Mar 1988. Demri's birth in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, in the United States of Americas Pacific Northwest. What could he dofight back? In order to post comments, please make sure JavaScript and Cookies are enabled, and reload the page. Addicts are a triggers for me so 12 step meetings are not good for me but they work for a lot of people at least in the beginning stages they worked for me too. I realize this stuff is old news for you guys, but for people who are just coming to this subject (who have a passion to know the truth) the information via comments on this site is vital. Enabling is just as bad as abandoning. The truth about the ways she lied, cheated, manipulated and stole from him have all been conveniently forgotten.". You were like a mom to them,making sure they were eating and breathing.
Unknown Demri photos : r/demriparrott - reddit What a wonderful site and tribute to Layne and Demri.
Alice in Chains: The Untold Story - Layne Staley's final - guitarworld Rest in peace beautiful angels. beautiful post, beautiful website and beautiful comment thread . I think at that point Jerry got pissed and tired of waiting around and did his own music. I took this picture with my web camera.. the picture was a photo copy taped to my wall.. It is a horrible existence. The facts, and I will allow myself to speak of them as facts, as I have 100% trust in Barbaras descriptions and tellings, are staggering. It is so scary and so serious. I always had faith in you though. theres a black and white photo of Layne and a girl who looks like Demri, to me at least. If it is made up, then she is an amazing writer. She moved around to different high schools in the 1980s. Bigs hugs! Need to search harder for the better ones. Its people like demri and Layne who would really make you think life was worth living. Sadly, Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley passed away on April 5, 2002, at 34 years of age. A week went by and my symptons worsened. Random. I never met Demri but I used to rehearse at Naf and played at the Offramp and RCKNDY , so I met Layne, Mike, Sean and Jerry a few times. Heroin becomes their lover, their mother, their friend. We will met them (again) and all together we will party and laught up avobe someday. But, if you do, you could save a life. Jessica, not sure if you will get this its been awhile since you wrote it but I dont update this site very often anymore. Shed stay a few nights. I guess there is so little real information out there, so these kinds of stories become defacto fact. I know exactly what he was feeling like I felt it every day I had to go to work sick or living to get high. We lost so many friends its no wonder the ones that are left behind like me and Darin.. suffer from PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) not unlike a war torn vet would but the only difference is people dont see us as heroes we brought this upon ourselvesthe uncontrollable addiction that is .. Heroin. Because that is not my story it is theirs.. even if I was a part of their story and they a part of mine. We all make mistakes in life, and Demri did struggle with addiction. She wasnt making a lot of money back then, but she did manage to get a lot of his. Anniversary of Dems passing & a note from her Mom, Darin Lamb One of Layne Staleys Best Friends. Then I went back to Houston, where I was working at a nightclub, and the phone rang in the office. Hey would call her to be around him and of course she would eventually relaps and hed kick her to the curb.
Layne and Demri | Grunge Graveyard The previous year she had suffered pancreatitis.
Demri Parrott - Ethnicity of Celebs | EthniCelebs.com 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. They can numb you from all the pain. Layne is one of my favorite musicians and as soon as I saw and read about Demri, its easy to see why she was loved by so many and still is! The Blue Moon was kind of notorious, at least when I was a teenager, as the place to go buy drugs. The next time Id run into those people who just meant to try it once would almost always be totally caught up and addicted. For me, layne was Alice in Chains. But sometimes feeling it completely is what we need to do. It will ruin your life. Not to mention the way she speaks about Jerry Lets not forget that the guy wrote (and still writes) most of the beautiful and haunting AIC music. I understand that Jerry started doing cocaine again around this time. The first one who loved and protected Layne (Jerry had music, yeah a hundred guys did, but nobody had Laynes voice and it was amazing. 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. Boredom plays a role and if your a recovering addict you have to keep yourself busy. Dear Susan, Bless you. Yes, she died young, of mysterious circumstances, but she made a living for herself.
Alice in Chains' Layne Staley: Needle and Damage Done - Rolling Stone I feel as though we can no longer talk about Layne on any AIC sites and that he is slowely being weened off of all of them..so again & again, thanks, and love hearing your stories. I cant get it to paste & post, but at least the other two are still here However so. Most of us refused to turn someone on for the first time. My mother overdosed and died 2 years before Layne. This drug is so powerful and addicting that people will keep using even when theyre slowly killing themselves, ruining their lives and hurting the people they love the most! We all were our suing a buzz in those days and the idea was to just be careful. I remember I was shooting video for Nancy at one of those tributes five years ago -shooting man on the street interviews outside, and Mike pulled up in a limo and talked to some of us , and we chatted but he was high as a kite. Some are experimenting with stuff, which can just be a part of growing up. BUMMER. Demri Parrott passed away in October of 1996, one of the worst things to ever happen to Layne Staley. 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. Layne and Demri met at a party back in 1988 and it was love at first sight. In all actuality they probably never will unless they have gone through it. How did her kids get so involved with drugs and addiction? As a result, there is a last photo that was published in 1998 and one final photo that was taken in 2002, just weeks before his death. They have it, although I have not seen it in the display but I do have the paperwork from the curator. You are not invincible and you cant just experiment with Heroin. Sure looks like Demri. I will forever cherish our short time together. She was an addict, just like Layne. She also has Demris engagement ring that Layne gave her. She said something to me, I said something back, and that was it. Those pictures are breathtaking. I feel empathy for all addicts. I am glad Rosheen knew how much she mattered, because that is what really counts anyway. I visit Demris Facebook page every once in a while and Ive learned that her closest friends dont like to disclose a lot. Im so glad that Demris mother supported her no matter what. I live in the middle of nowhere with a very small population yet people are dropping like flies. Your site has been great in all the information thats been released, but I just wanted to say to you and all, Merry Christmas. Why wouldnt she stay with Layne, or anyone, always running, to and fro, even before she got sick? Please I beg of you. Their friends warned against it, rehab for both many times. The last time Kathleen Austin - Demri's mother - saw Layne was in 1997. Theyre both special persons in their own right, and both should be acknowledged as such. Its even worse when you have a lot of responsibilities to take care of because you find yourself stuck to where you have to keep using to try and keep up with those responsibilities and it works at first but it tricks you and then you loose everything if you dont loose your life. Other things as her signature scent, patchouli oil, which brightens your home & others, have brought me joy. Comfotably numb. Regardless, you have done great justice to remembering your friends. She was so young, so beautiful the tragic muse, a fairy. Dont forget me though and please continue to be my angel; I know theres enough of you to go around for everyone. It tries to steal your life and the sparkle or energy that flows within us all. 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. Thanks so much, your website and memories are so generous and appreciated. Alright, I apologize then and I am very sorry to hear about what your going through. 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. It was copied and posted to several different places. Demri was born in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, in the United States of America's Pacific Northwest. Makes me wonder about the beautiful pictures of Demri above, Id love to know when they were taken. For instance, I would never trade my mother for anything in the world and she would give her last breath for me. Feb 8, 2019 - Explore Ken Ferrell's board "Demri parrott" on Pinterest. I am an addict and have been for years. I have been a long time fan of Layne Staley.
Demri Parrott, former GF of Layne Staley - findadeathforum.com I knew she was really The saddest thing about Demris family is that there were 4 children and now there is only 1 left. I often checked on my kids breathing when they were newborns. DAVID DUET Before I left Seattle, Alice in Chains was having their big Bumbershoot show and Facelift was out. Do not let it get YOU! Ive also met some true asshole addicts but they were usually born that way. Seattle police reportedly found Staley on his couch, weighing 86 pounds. Dear Barbara, I adored the both of them, but we definitely had plenty of conversations that were like, Look, its not fair for me to say whats right or wrong for you guys But I got to the point where I was like, I cant have this goin on here and be wonderin if you guys are gonna wake up or not., SUSAN SILVER Not that the others werent heavily into drugs, too, but Layne was clearly so deepit was so dangerousthat all of our lives centered around how to aid him. Its extremely heartbreaking. You have to want it or its impossible. It can sneak back in and take over even faster then it did the first time. Yes, she was sick from herion, but so was Marilyn. Demri was staying with a friends Dad trying to kick by the time I got out so she could come stay at my parents while I recovered from surgery and she had to be clean to do that. Apparently people would sayHey, are you Layne Staleys girlfriend? and shed sayNo, Im Demri. She also refused to take Laynes money, and had to make her own money herself. Not really a big deal It wasnt a blatant thing, but it was definitely implied a couple of times that they wanted to know how he was. Oh that thing about walking down a hall and druggies is b.s. We were all rocking the grunge uniform in those early days. Heroin isnt a social drug that you experiment with. It needs to be a full on mission or its 100% harder. Who is the other girl with her on the couch? Ward was when Layne went on tour and he quit paying rent there. 3 years ago | 67 notes #demri parrott #demri lara parrott #demri #layne staley #alice in chains #seattle grunge #seattle grunge scene #demri forever "Demri could communicate and socialize beyond her years. Because shed been staying at his apartment at the time that she got sick (when he had gone on tour,) and according to them, he hadnt thought to leave her enough money to buy new bags of cotton for, what, ninety nine cents? Layne Thomas Staley (born Layne Rutherford Staley; August 22, 1967 - April 5, 2002) was an American singer and songwriter who was the original lead vocalist of the rock band Alice in Chains, which rose to international fame in the early 1990s as part of Seattle's grunge movement. She was also seeing this new guy that her family hadnt met. It made a toll in her tiny body and doctors knew she wouldnt make it. Remember life is short and so special..love your loved ones today because we might not have a tomorrow. No need to rant on that. Demri had family, many friends, and Layne, but she kept on running to the end. 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 would like to write a book about my life with stories in it about them. Im sorry, but I just cant stand the man.
Did anyone know Demri Parrot? If so can you tell us why there's no I love you. ! But she probably would have wriggled free, and shouted, F you! My life is my own! The truth is that the drug more powerful than the mind and often times the only way for someone to quit is to be forcefully removed because the will power is not there. The seduction of heroin is no joke and ANYONE can be its next victim. He was usin. I actually edited my response so I hope you got to read the whole comment I made. Demri Parrott was buried at the Miller-Woodlawn Memorial Park in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, USA. Since it didnt kill them at their first try, which it does to many, they continued on with it. The hat was donated to them because I have never sold a thing of Andys and I was afraid of what may happen to it should something happen to me. This site has been around. -Chris, Was wondering if you ever went on any road trips with Demri to see AIC? Allowing us insight into lives cut short and giving it all up ugly or beautiful for us to learn. 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. PS: Sorry for my bad english, hopefully my words have been understood. Demri was born in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, in the United States of America's Pacific Northwest. I hope so. She went out one night with the new bf of hers and she had shot heroin before they left. Apparently she made friends with some of the elderly people and used to make them laugh.