The ex-wife of grunge rocker Scott Weiland, who died after years of drug addiction, has urged fans not to glamorise the singer but instead learn from his mistakes.
The former Stone Temple Pilots singer died on Thursday, aged 48, on his tour bus in Minnesota. Police found cocaine nearby.
In an open letter, his first wife Mary Forsberg offered thanks for condolences but described Weiland as an absent father who neglected their children, aged 13 and 15, and often failed to pay child support.
"I don't share this with you to cast judgment, I do so because you most likely know at least one child in the same shoes," she wrote in the letter published late on Monday by Rolling Stone magazine.
"Let's choose to make this the first time we don't glorify this tragedy with talk of rock and roll and the demons that, by the way, don't have to come with it. Skip the depressing T-shirt with 1967-2015 on it," she wrote, referring to Weiland's years of birth and death.
