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Oct. 18, 2024 – Alex Van Halen is shedding light on his brother Eddie Van Halen’s addiction to prescription pills.

In his first interview since Eddie’s death, he explained that his late brother, the Van Halen guitarist, became addicted to prescribed steroid pills after undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor in the years before his death in 2020 of complications from cancer. He was 65. You know, he fought until the end,” Alex told Rolling Stone in an interview published on Tuesday, October 15. “Anybody who thought he was anything less than that can suck my you-know-what. … If you knew what he had to go through to beat the cancer — he wouldn’t do traditional treatment. Some of the off-the-wall s— caused such a toxic mix in his body. And, yeah, you shouldn’t drink with it, Ed!”

Alex added that the pills made his brother “feel like Superman,” and one day he saw Eddie take every pill in the bottle. The intent wasn’t to harm himself but to chase that feeling. 

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