Rock Star Wife Spills All! Drugs, Violence and Mental Illness

Scott Weiland’s ex opens up about her drugged-out marriage to the rocker—what other celebrity should do the same thing?

By Ted Casablanca, Becky Bain Oct 06, 2009 3:12 PMTags
Mary Weiland, Scott WeilandTodd Williamson/Getty Images

While we're still patiently waiting for Nicole Kidman's Tom Cruise tell-all, another celeb's ex is dishing on their totally tumultuous relationship:

Mary Forsberg Weiland, the ex of rocker Scott Weiland, wrote a memoir, Fall to Pieces, cowritten by Larkin Warren. Mary shares some horrifying stories regarding her bipolar disorder, her addiction to drugs and her chaotic and violent relationship with the Stone Temple Pilots rocker.

During their rocky, drug-fueled marriage, the pair was practically known for getting into public fights—not only was Scott charged with domestic violence against Mary in 2001, the two of them completely trashed a Burbank hotel room (ripped-out phones, bashed walls and bloody sheets included) during one of their nastier brawls in 2007

First good thing: Mary never hooked up with Russell Crowe, can you imagine? Second good thing: Mary's in a much better place to talk about this traumatic stuff, but we know what other notorious late-night partier should be next to write a similar book...

Lindsay Lohan, duh. Does anybody outside of Amy Winehouse need more help to reflect on their woebegone ways?

Or rather, Samantha Ronson should be the one to pen it—she's the one roped onto this wild ride like Mary was with Scott, plus we doubt Linds could write anything longer than 140 characters.

Linds and Sam are basically the all-femme version of the Weilands anyway, getting into more public fights over the course of their relaysh than we can mention. And Sam might possibly be the only person left to expose LiLo's drug problems and get her to seriously deal with them head-on as opposed to this self-destructive act of denial she refuses to wake from.

Mary's book is out Nov. 10—maybe Sam could pick it up for Linds as an early Xmas present? Think that'll be enough of a hint? But truly, the book's sobering, fascinating stuff, on a lotta scary levels.

—Additional reporting by Becky Bain