Yeah, with 90k in child support payments due each month that were calculated during the peak of his earning years, there was no way he was ever going get clean and be a good father. He seemed well intentioned at times, but ultimately very few people in this world could come back from that.
Yes, he made bad choices in his life, but every time he tried to get better there was that dark cloud of "You need to tour all the time, no matter how small the earnings from shows become to attempt to pay your $90k a month that we've determined it takes to raise children".
From any interview or book I've read by him or people that know him, that $90k a year is a product of his bad decisions in the 90's and unfortunately also the dagger in his heart that gave him no hope. I remember reading about how his body was just destroyed by everyone that pushed him to keep going on everything to keep their own money and success going, despite knowing that he needed to step away and get help.
Everyone around him just kept going "You owe commitment to the band!! You owe huge financial commitment to this family!! You owe your time to and money top everyone". Obviously it's the life he set up, but it's still sad how most people can attempt a recovery from drug addiction, and he just never had the chance to say I'm stopping everything until I get clean" which is what anyone who's been through drug addiction knows HAS to happen. They kept the Weiland train going with predictable results.
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