Scott Weiland’s Son Noah on Comparisons to His Father: “People Want to See Me Be a Statistic”
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A year and a half ago, Suspect208 looked like they might just be the next big thing. The young band was fronted by Noah Weiland (son of late Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland), and also featured London Hudson (son of Slash) on drums, Tye Trujillo (son of Metallica’s Robert Trujillo) on bass, and Niko Tsangaris on guitar. Unfortunately, it all fell apart for the group just months after getting off the ground.
After showing promise in late 2020 with their first two singles, “Long Awaited” and “All Black,” the band announced in early 2021 that they had parted ways with Noah, citing his “dark path of drug use.” They attempted to continue with new singer Cody Houston, but eventually broke up completely soon thereafter.
In a new interview with iHeartRadio, Noah opened up about his ouster from the band, his battle with drugs, his relationship with his late father, and his continuing music career.
Noah admitted that he did have a problem with substance abuse, but insisted that he didn’t actually develop an addiction to drugs until a few months after he was ousted from Suspect208. “This is the thing that people don’t know: I wasn’t even addicted to anything when that whole thing happened,” said Noah. “I didn’t get addicted to stuff until months after. That’s what made me so mad.”
He continued, “It made me mad because yeah, I did end up getting addicted but before that I was not a drug addict and they made it seem like I was and for awhile, when I really wasn’t, that’s when it hurt me the most.”
At the time he was sacked from Suspect208, he was really hurt by the online comments comparing him to his father, who tragically died in 2015 from an accidental overdose of cocaine and other substances. “People want to see me be a statistic so bad, I feel like,” remarked Noah. “There were so many posts when the band ended and all the comments were, ‘’Oh, just like his dad, just like his dad.’”
As far as his relationship with the other Suspect208 members, it appears his biggest conflict is with London, with whom he was the closest. Their dads — Scott Weiland and Slash — were in the band Velvet Revolver together, so Noah and London have known each other since they were little kids.
“We became really, really close. We were like brothers. We did everything together,” Noah said of his friendship with London. “Tye had nothing to do with any of [my ouster from the band]. He did not know. He really wasn’t even a part of the band that much. He just liked us and he liked what we were doing and he just wanted to do it for fun, really. Niko, I was never really close with him.”
He added, “[London] went on a crazy rant saying, like, ‘You need to stop doing drugs, you’re the reason why I relapsed’ and all this stuff. He was just going off. He was using some hard stuff that I didn’t approve of, like, I didn’t want him to do the specific thing that he was doing. I would be there a lot of the time to get him to, like, chill. He didn’t like what I was doing also so he just kind of called me out and totally didn’t even think about the fact that he has problems, too.”
After seeking treatment for addiction, Noah said that he’s now living a healthier life. “I have a sponsor, I go to meetings, I’m better with family,” he revealed.
He is determined not to suffer a similar fate as his father, explaining, “It’s a little drive that makes me want to do better and say even if you’re born into a family with addiction you don’t have to fall to the statistics. You can be great. You can even be greater than your parents, it doesn’t matter.”
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In the same interview, Noah also opened up about his relationship with Scott, affirming claims by his mother, Mary Forsberg, that the late Stone Temple Pilots singer didn’t spend a lot of time with his children. “I remember my mom would get upset a lot because she’d see him in interviews saying that we’d always be spending time with him and they’d say bad things about my mom all the time,” he said. “There’s so much lies and rumors on the internet.”
Noah sensed something was off with Scott the last time he saw him, recalling, “The last year my dad was alive I think we saw him once and it was for maybe like an hour, and it was at a restaurant in the Valley. The energy I could remember, because I was 14, was he just felt so off and so drained. All I can remember is him seeming in so much pain. Looking back, it felt like it was the last time I was going to see him.”
Now, Noah is pursuing his own solo career, having just released the new song “One Day.” Watch the music video below, followed by Heavy Consequence‘s own interview with Suspect208 from late 2020, when the band had just started out and Noah was still a member of the group.
Scott Weiland’s Son Noah on Comparisons to His Father: “People Want to See Me Be a Statistic”
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