DJ AM was found dead in New York City apartment on Friday — and with prescription bottles and makeshift crack pipe found strewn near his body, the 36-year-old celebrity spinner is believed to have died of a drug overdose.
If toxicology tests confirm that drugs led to his death, it would mark the end of a decade-long battle against addiction for the DJ born Adam Goldstein.
At the time of his death, the star had just finished shooting a MTV reality series called Gone Too Far — a unscripted docudrama about helping young addicts on the road to recovery. The network is now deciding whether or not to air the show in the wake of Goldstein’s death.
“I got so lost in my disease,” he told MTV News in his final interview with the network on July 29, 2009.
“The inspiration for the show is that I am a recovering drug addict, 11 years sober,” Goldstein explained.
“One of the first shots that we did for the show, I was researching this girl Gina, where she buys – and I walked into the bodega right near her house and bought a crack pipe. That was my drug of choice,” he explained. “I walked out and I’m holding it and I just wanted to show how easy it was – and then I realized my palms were sweaty and I was like, wait a minute, this is not smart for me to be holding this. It’s been tough.”
In his first television interview since his arrest on charges of battering his girlfriend, pop singer Rihanna, the “Kiss Kiss” star reveals that he is still in love with Rihanna, is haunted by her post-assault photo, and doesn’t remember the rage that still stands to ruin his once promising career.
(The old “I Don’t Remember A Thing” Defense, eh?)
“I just need to prove to people I can be a role model,” Brown, who was accompanied by his mother, Joyce Hawkins, and lawyer Mark Geragos during the interview at CNN Headquarters in Hollywood last Wednesday. “That’s not who I am as a person, and that’s not who I promise I want to be,” the singer laments.
Catch the full interview this Wednesday, Sept. 2 at 9/8c on CNN.
Blink 182 took a moment to honor fallen friend DJ AM at their concert in Hartford, CT, on Saturday night.The celebrity spinner was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Friday. He was 36.
A choked-up Mark Hoppus broke down in tears as he spoke about AM’s death.
“This night is really hard for the three of us,” he tearfully explained to the crowd. “We lost a dear friend yesterday.”
Blink drummer Travis Barker was with the DJ during a Learjet crush in North Carolina last September; the pair were the lone survivors of the fiery inferno that killed on board.
On Saturday, we told you all about eccentric pop sensation Lady Gaga’s recent partnership with crooner Michael Bolton. The “Poker Face” star volunteered her writing services for a few tunes on the respected singer’s new album, One World One Love, debuting next month.
Today, we’re getting our first sample of one of the tracks the unorthodox duo collaborated on.
Rock It Or Drop It: Michael Bolton & Lady Gaga — “Murder My Heart”
Never one to mince words, Jackson Family Patriarch Joe Jackson has spoken out for the first time since the King of Pop’s death was ruled a homicide in a report for the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office last Friday.
