I know it can cause lots of damage to your body. How can two people that loved one another so much come to this, is a question that all of us fans have asked at different times. Maybe Ill find a little peace now even without credibility, just like you always thought was possible. I am not strong enough to deal with addicts bullshit anymore. Born February 22, 1969 Best Of Luck to you Ms. Jacqueline from Scotland. It will take a different catalyst for every addict to finally take that leap off the cliff and get helpsome will need to be love bombed, some will need tough love jail is not the answer but ALL will need the help of people who understand them and wont judge them and a very strong and loving support system, also time away from their old friends, sometimes family and the places theyve used in is crucial and they all need to want it at least enough to try it one day and then hopefully one more day and they will need to learn new tools to cope with their new reality and how to live their new life clean without the old faithful emotional and physical buffer of opiates. I was her Respiratory Therapist in charge of her breathing support. Learn More{{/message}}. Neither Demri's mother nor Layne's stepfather have been able to confirm that. Theyre both special persons in their own right, and both should be acknowledged as such. Just how much sense does that make? Chris Cornells recent death triggered something in me and Ive spent days reading through this site among others. Oh my she was so beautiful, so beautiful!!! She was a very interesting character and Im sad that she went down the dark path she did. I know its a picture and not a video but just thought Id share in case it could add to Layne and Demris pics. Thats what all 4 of my friends whose lifes are over would tell you all who are hear reading this. Reading through the stories of Demris existence is at the same time beautiful and awful. People dont seem to understand how much Demri suffered the last 2-1/2 years of her life spent mostly in hospital several times on life support given hours to live or that she didnt complain and was always more concerned about others than herself. I started writing this journal online because writing about losing you all has helped to heal my broken heart when nothing else did. I hope and pray that youre ok today, to live and tell more of your story. She also used the surname Murphy and had three younger brothers, Devin, Derek and David. @ Eric: Nothing. Everything has already been said here, but I want to thank you personally. "remembering Demri"..? Mad Season, Layne's side projects/art, Jerry's solo work. She had talked him into putting a lot of big purchases in her name. I have been to many drug places. Back in 93 early 94 Layne was seeing this dip**** model who did more harm to him than good. Was that not what Demri was trying to say? They are blessed to have had a great friend in you who will tell their story and stick up for them so fiercely too. I desperately want my life back, and as much as I adore the aforementioned people, I have no desire to follow in their footsteps and go to my grave this young. They were both hardcore heroin addicts and much of their life and their relationship was very, very ugly. Hi Barbara, I remember right after Layne passed that you sent me a beautiful email about Demri. I invested a lot of money on treatments. No need to rant on that. You also made people smile and giggle and anyone who was ever part of your life no matter how long or how short.. will NEVER forget you. Amen. Which is correct?? She was an American model, artist, and muse. What happened with that book, he had a really good chronological order of things. Friends comment that after Demri died, Layne was put on suicide watch for 24 hours.Demri Parrott was buried at the Miller-Woodlawn Memorial Park in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, USA. I know we all hear this and we all have been told over and over to stay away from drugs but I wish I could drill it into kids heads who might consider trying it. Then there was some stuff with his mother that I just cant share here. I think there are clues around us every day of something more and that when we die were NOT gone forever so I will continue to believe that something happens I just dont know what it is yet. "I was honored to talk to a very close friend of the late Demri Parrott (who passed away in October 1996), Layne Staley's ex-girlfriend, in Paris just recently. I used to live off Denny with Rosheen and Demri stayed with us alot so it was very easy for me to picture the scene when you found your poor sister. The first one who loved and protected Layne (Jerry had music, yeah a hundred guys did, but nobody had Laynes voice and it was amazing. Barbara you remember when you came into the room at the hospital and thought you were interrupting and we got Rachel to leave so you could have some private time with Demri and she thanked you saying she felt like she had vultures over her and could feel Rachel wanted her to die so she could have Layne. There were reports that he would go to Toys R Us to buy games and return home, but always by himself." MRSA has been around for quite some timeI first found out about it back in 1994/95 with some of my first nursing home patients that I transported to the E.R. 2 years after they were engaged and about 6 years since they began dating, the former couple split. REMEMBER Layne and Demri. Hope you write that book about the two of them and/or those times! She then went to the High school of Performing Arts in Jacksonville, Florida.Demri was passionate about many things and excelled in art and theater. All the pain and suffering when their lives could have been filled with so much love and happiness. Laynes father could have been that positive influence, but he only helped drive Layne to an early grave. If I had a quarter for all the times she and I were approached with "I know youyou're Layne's girlfriend", and she would step back and reply "No, I am Demri", I would take all of us to Vegas. Why do you think it is so hard to stop? For me, I was blesse dot have been there when it all happened ( Im from L.A. Did Layne Staley go to toys your us to buy games? I had nothing left of them myself so it was like a true gift and to find pictures of my loved ones online. DAVID DUET Before I left Seattle, Alice in Chains was having their big Bumbershoot show and Facelift was out. One story has Demri trying to kick drugs & dating a coke dealer in the final days of her life. He thought because he wasnt living there he shouldnt have to. He had that presence that gave you goosebumps and made you want to move closer or turn up the volume. She was only 27.Alice in Chains manager Susan Silver told journalist Greg Prato in his book "Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music" that she was the one who went to Layne's apartment to tell him that Demri had died. The Sony people were trying to use me as eyes and ears to report backis he doin drugs? Siblings: 4 (Devin C. Remme, Derek J.P. Murphy, David J.M. Please let them know that they are being thought about, and prayed for, and wishes for a Happy Christmas. Dear Barbara, I wrote this on Darrins page, but Im writing to you again on this one, though they are probably all one and the same. 1 person I know said he came by their house in Seattle and wanted them to come to his car to see if this girl O.D.d. I am aware however that when your in heroin there is no thinking positive when your adducted to it because your brain is drained of the hormone that makes you happy. Tom has two versions. They gave me this hand scribbled note from her. Or did he just appear that way because of being really thin and probably feeling sick a lot? They were always fine with my vegetarian dishes but I wanted to get some nutrients in them and meat on their bones, which is pretty much all I could really do to help. He was traveling with a bodyguard hired specifically to keep his drug use in check, but after the show he overdosed. However, I was very struck by the beautiful young woman with him in pictures. Im loving this website and to found out more about Layne and Demri and how unique they were makes me really happy| . He is at rehab all drugs are drugs so I think he was right, besides why not. That kind of clientele. The rest Yes, Jerry had a coke problem. Ive also met some true asshole addicts but they were usually born that way. Then Demri starts to get sick, and shes in the hospital many times, her heart, her lungs. I dont think many people did, to be honest with you. He became sort of ashamed and let it go longer than he should have. Although Demri passed anyway, her mother remembers her fondly and without regret or anger. Just stop! Also how she would decorate her hospital room with the same. I am an agnostic. SomeoneI dont want to say whobrought him some heroin because they couldnt find any coke. You may never read this, but I hope that you do, from a nothing person, who is just concerned and someone who cares. into dope deep at that point, and one time I saw her on the bus and she pulled up her shirt and showed me her scar from when she was on the hospital table and they had to massage her heart back to life. She did not come here to learn any lessons she came to teachshe taught unconditional LOVE and from what I can tell she continues to do so..Do not place any attachment or story to my mothers headstone for Dem that story will come out after my mom is no longer around.. that is another story Thanks for the oppurtinity to set a few things straightI know the misinformation did not come from you sorry if I appeared to be venting perhaps I was a little. Demri didnt wear glasses like that girl. The facts, and I will allow myself to speak of them as facts, as I have 100% trust in Barbaras descriptions and tellings, are staggering. Demri Lara PARROTT Left this world October 29, 1996; born in Bremerton, Wa, on Feb 22, 1969 and attended school in Arlington. He was getting more and more into one of his favorite hobbies too, which was anime (which he helped get me into. I think I would feel much better to write my story which includes them all Mike, Layne, Demri, Rosheen, Darin Tracy.. RCKNDY the Off Ramp The Seattle grunge scene in the early 90s.. now that would be a book that Id like to write. Meanwhile, Starr, who'd been introduced to heroin by Staley, drank a bottle of bleach used for cleaning syringes, thinking it was water. Sounds like you are happy and settled now with your beautiful familyhave a good weekend xx, Barbara, RIP Demri and Layne. Thank you Barbara for making this site and memorial! Now whether or not Layne ever knew just how much I liked him, I dont know, but Demri knew. Demri made a mess of the house and the living situation in Laynes absence. I guess its possible that he dated someone else for a short time in between but everybody knows that heroin addicts have major issues with impotency so its not like he was gonna be grinding away with someone else. Im sorry that your friends made so many mistakes that caused them to lose their life. It was Layne and Demri and they had to find me to tell me they started doing dope and how wonderful it was, and right then I knew they Layne knew this and its why her passing just crippled him. Not heroin, but pills and marijuana. I tried to tell myself its all in my head and that it would get better but no matter what the drug strips you of your ability to compromise and feelings about how things affect others. She was really sweet and really cool. Nothing would have made her happier than to know her name will forever be attached to Layne's memory. The last public appearance he made was almost four years before his death when he attended his bandmate Jerry Cantrells solo concert in Seattle on Halloween in 1998. 1). Those pictures are breathtaking. I too adore the photo of Demri on the couch, didnt she have the prettiest, most elegant little hands?! I have had major issues with drugs and alcohol (off and on) since I was in my early teens and I could have 100 people tell me that I could always visit or talk with them when Im feeling down however I always had a hard time with that because its hard to explain to someone if theyve never been there. These talented people were all under the thumb of an evil drug addiction that tortured them and eventually ended their lives and heroin is not a drug you try once so if you want to be another tragic statistic..go ahead and try it only once but Ill tell you from my own personal experience being there when people have tried that it for the first time and very few successfully do that. 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