SCOTT WEILAND Claims He Was Raped When He Was 12 Years Old

May 19, 2011

The Pulse Of Radio reports that STONE TEMPLE PILOTS frontman Scott Weiland's newly published memoir, "Not Dead And Not For Sale", features a number of vivid and even shocking revelations from the 43-year-old vocalist. According to Spin, Weiland reveals in one passage that he was raped when he was 12 years old. He writes that the rapist was a 'big muscular guy, a high school senior . . . (who) rode the bus with me every day to school . . . invited me to his house. The dude raped me. It was quick, not pleasant. I was too scared to tell anyone. 'Tell anyone,' he warned, 'and you'll never have another friend in this school. I'll ruin your fuckin' reputation.' Weiland adds, "This is a memory I suppressed until only a few years ago when, in rehab, it came flooding back. Therapy will do that to you."

Weiland also remembers doing heroin with Courtney Love at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles: "She was with Amanda de Cadenet, the photographer/socialite. As fate would have it, their room was next to mine. That night Courtney and I got high as she and Amanda dressed for dinner at the home of Jack Nicholson. For a while, Ms. Love inserted herself into my ever-more-erratic story. We were never lovers but were rather close at the start."

The singer also recalls the first time he ever did heroin, which was before a show in New York City while STP was touring behind its debut album "Core": "The opiate took me to where I'd always dreamed of going. I can't name the place, but I can say that I was undisturbed and unafraid, a free-floating man in a space without demons and doubts."

Weiland also writes about falling off the wagon and doing drugs during VELVET REVOLVER's 2007 tour, and what happened when he confessed to his bandmates: "When I told the guys that we'd have to miss a couple of gigs because I needed treatment, their reaction shocked me. They told me I'd have to pay them for those cancellations in full. I reminded them that when they had relapsed and needed rehab, I had supported them completely. It made no difference to them."

Weiland's book came out this past Tuesday (May 17). The singer is reportedly working on both a new solo album and a new STONE TEMPLE PILOTS record.

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