Alex Van Halen, drummer of the rock band Van Halen , has spoken about his late brother Eddie's struggle with prescription pill addiction. In his first interview since Eddie's death in 2020, Alex told Rolling Stone magazine that Eddie became addicted to steroid pills prescribed after brain tumor surgery. "I didn't see the bottle, but the bottle had, like, a thousand pills in it," Alex said.
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6, 2020, at age 65 after battling cancer. Alex described his brother's fight against cancer, saying: "You know, he fought until the end. Anybody who thought he was anything less than that can suck my you-know-what.
" He added that Eddie continued making music during treatment "up to the very end," even though "it wasn't very good." "But that wasn't the point. That's what he did," Alex said.
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"I just miss him. I miss the arguments. I live with it .
