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Eddie Vedderis looking back on the moment he learned ofKurt Cobain’s near-overdose, about a month before the Nirvana member’s suicide.
Speaking on his Audible OriginalI Am Mine, thePearl Jamfrontman, 56, remembered what it was like to read the news that the Cobain singer had almost died from an overdose.
In early March 1994, Courtney Love found Cobain unconscious in a Rome hotel room after he asked a bellboy to fill a prescription for Rohypnol, according toRolling Stone. Fifty pills were found in his stomach and he spent 20 hours in a coma.
“Man, I just thought like, ‘Oh please don’t let that be true. And please don’t let that be true,’ " Vedder adds. “And then he survived that. And I was so grateful.”
On the audio project, Vedder explained that he often refrains about talking about Cobain’s death because of his close relationship with Cobain’s former bandmatesKrist NovoselicandDave Grohl.
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“Every time I talk about this stuff, I think about Krist and Dave and I’m very appreciative of that relationship over the years and especially back then and I never want to see anything out of turn or even talk about it at all, to be honest,” he said.
Last month, Grohlspoke to PEOPLEabout Nirvana’s legacy and shared that he thinks about Cobain “all the time.”
“It used to be that years ago that I would hear aNirvanasong on the radio and turn the channel,” he said then. “I don’t do that anymore. I’ll go driving with my kids in the car and they’ll put on Nirvana….We don’t really sit around the house, talking about Nirvana all day long, but every once in a while, they’ll ask me questions and I’ll explain that life to them.”
About Cobain, he said, “I think about him all the time. I just had a dream about him two nights ago. I only knew Kurt for about three and a half years, but in that time we went through multiple lifetimes. Kurt’s songs touched the world.”
Vedder’sAudible OriginalI Am Mineis available Thursday on Audible.
source: people.com
