I was just having a conversation with someone the other day about just how legendary Stone Temple Pilots could have been if not for Scott Weiland’s raging drug addiction. They were a solid, old-school rock band with a rock-star-god lead singer. They could have ruled the world. Things like this just break my heart.

Sigh. Anyway…then this story popped up today and I thought, ‘what a co-winky-dink!’ I was just thinking about bad this dude f***ed it up for everyone.

Weiland is doing interviews in advance of the first Stone Temple Pilots album in nine years. Although fans had mixed reactions to their last studio album, ‘Shangri-La Dee Da,’ Weiland promises their new music is a straight-up rock record more in touch with hits ‘Core’ and ‘No. 4. Weiland opens up about Christmas caroling in prison, rumors of a feud with Guns N’ Roses and receiving a massage while his wife was in labor in a Details magazine interview.

Weiland didn’t think having a massage during his ex-wife Mary Forsberg’s labor was out of line. “What do you mean? I was incredibly stressed-out,” Weiland rationalized. “She was having contractions and that was tripping me out, so I called up our friend and she gave me a massage. I laid out right next to where Mary was.” The incident was revealed in Forsberg’s memoir of their tumultuous relationship together. ‘Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and Mental Illness’ was published last year. No one I’ve ever talked to thought [the massage] was weird,” revealed Weiland. “It’s incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child. And I was sober at that time, so I needed something to take the edge off.”

Then you were talking to idiots. No wonder these two aren’t together anymore. I think I would have been filing for divorce before I left the hospital if the father of my baby was that selfish.

scott and mary