Gene Simmons Wife Shannon Tweed Goes To War With Kiss Bandmate Paul Stanley On Twitter Over Prince Comments and Apologies
After Gene Simmons made comments regarding Prince’s Death fellow Kiss Bandmate rushed out to make a public apology which in turn led Gene to Apologize as well. Paul’s Statements did not sit well with Gene’s Wife who took to her twitter and starting a war of the wards with Stanley, You can read all tweets and statements below
We ALL have our failings but true friends don't point at them & throw you under the bus! Especially partners of 40 years!
— Mrs ShannonTSimmons (@shannonleetweed) May 11, 2016
@Enclave_CTO also the people closest to you always hurt you the most
— Mrs ShannonTSimmons (@shannonleetweed) May 11, 2016
@Shakespeare_Ren that would be called silent. Not covering your ass
— Mrs ShannonTSimmons (@shannonleetweed) May 11, 2016
@Shakespeare_Ren that would be called silent. Not covering your ass
— Mrs ShannonTSimmons (@shannonleetweed) May 11, 2016
Embarrassed by cold clueless statements re Prince's death. Without all the facts better to say nothing. My apologies https://t.co/Arb5XQ4o7l
— Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) May 10, 2016
Partners of 40 years says it all. Don't confuse walking under the bus with being thrown under. My apology was right. https://t.co/FF9dG6Tfo1
— Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) May 11, 2016
@PaulStanleyLive you can't apologize for someone else. It's not up to you.He feels the way he feels. He would NEVER do that to you.NEVER
— Mrs ShannonTSimmons (@shannonleetweed) May 11, 2016
@TSolfest @PaulStanleyLive many times you would never know about
— Mrs ShannonTSimmons (@shannonleetweed) May 11, 2016
@timrs2001 @PaulStanleyLive yes you would think. I'm sure you just addressed that to me right?
— Mrs ShannonTSimmons (@shannonleetweed) May 12, 2016
— Gene Simmons (@genesimmons) May 11, 2016
Gene Simmons Says Prince’s Death Was ‘Pathetic He is the cliché of clichés ’
For Gene Simmons, not all music legend deaths are the same.
The Kiss co-founder explains his thinking by comparing the recent passings of David Bowie and Prince. “Bowie was the most tragic of all because it was real sickness,” Simmons told Newsweek. As for Prince, “his drugs killed him. What do you think, he died from a cold?”
Bowie succumbed in January at age 69 after a previously undisclosed battle with cancer. Prince, 57, was found dead in April, and rumors of prescription drug use have gained momentum ever since. A final medical determination has not yet been announced in Prince’s death.
Simmons added that his comments don’t diminish his regard for Prince as a musician. “I think Prince was heads, hands and feet above all the rest of them,” Simmons said. “I thought he left [Michael] Jackson in the dust. Prince was way beyond that. But how pathetic that he killed himself. Don’t kid yourself, that’s what he did. Slowly, I’ll grant you – but that’s what drugs and alcohol is: a slow death.”
Now 66, Simmons says he’ll never understand how such talents come to bad ends, noting that he’s never been high or drunk. “The one question I have is: When we all start out and we have these big dreams and you finally get your wish. You have more money than God and fame,” Simmons mused. “What is that insane gene in us, well, a lot of us, that makes us want to succumb to the cliché of clichés: drugs and alcohol?”
Simmons has other plans – namely to live for a very, very long time. “At some point, my hair and teeth are gonna fall out,” he said. “At some point, you’ll see pathetic Gene Simmons at 80 years old with a colostomy bag and a wheelchair. I’ll grant you it’ll be a studded wheelchair and I’ll have a hot nurse wheeling me around. … I really enjoy getting up every day. If it means at the end I become a pathetic version of what I am, so be it. My gravestone will not say: ‘I wish I woulda, shoulda, coulda.’”
Simmons’ longtime Kiss bandmate Paul Stanley was more sympathetic in his public response to Prince’s death. Stanley, who overcame what he termed a long and painful recovery after his own hip replacement surgery, asked his fans not to “jump to judge” the tragedy in a Facebook post dated April 22: “If you need hip replacement and can’t do it, [the] pain can be excruciating and unrelenting
KISS frontman Paul Stanley has taken to Twitter to distance himself from comments that his bandmate, Gene Simmons, made about Prince.
Simmons made headlines earlier today when he told Newsweek about Prince‘s death: “His drugs killed him. What do you think, he died from a cold?”
Simmons added that he still holds Prince in high regard as a musician. “I think Prince was heads, hands and feet above all the rest of them,” he said. “I thought he left [Michael] Jackson in the dust. Prince was way beyond that. But how pathetic that he killed himself. Don’t kid yourself, that’s what he did. Slowly, I’ll grant you — but that’s what drugs and alcohol is: a slow death.”
After Gene‘s comments were picked up by various news organizations, Stanley tweeted: “Embarrassed by cold clueless statements re Prince‘s death. Without all the facts better to say nothing. My apologies.” He also added a link to the Newsweek article containing Gene‘s quotes.
Initial toxicology tests showed the painkiller Percocet was present in Prince‘s body at his time of death, but autopsy and toxicology results aren’t complete, and the artist’s cause of death remains unknown.
