Gene Simmons has taken to Twitter to publicly apologise for calling the death of pop icon Prince, "pathetic".
Simmons condemned Prince, saying he "slowly killed himself with drugs and alcohol", and Bowie's death was "the most tragic" because it was an illness, whereas "all the other ones were a choice".
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Now, he's posted a note to Twitter to apologise and explain where he was coming from.
"I just got so much s*** from my family for my big mouth again. I apologise - I have a long history of getting very angry at what drugs do to the families/friends of the addicts," he wrote.