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Alex Van Halen Details Eddie Van Halen's Prescription Pill Addiction


Alex Van Halen said brother Eddie became addicted to prescribed steroids after surgery to remove a brain tumor

“You know, he fought until the end,” Alex told Rolling Stone in an interview published on Tuesday, October 15. Kevin Winter/Getty Images Valerie Bertinelli is looking back at some of the darkest memories of her relationship with ex-husband Eddie Van Halen. Alex, who was also Van Halen’s drummer, laughed when he said it, though he accepts that the pills likely contributed to his brother’s death.

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