Eddie Van Halen took whole bottle of steroid pills before death as they made him “feel like Superman”

Eddie Van Halen took a whole bottle of steroid pills shortly before he died because he liked the “superhuman feeling” they gave him.

The legendary guitarist passed away in October 2020 following complications from throat cancer at the age of 65.

Now, his brother Alex, who played drums with Van Halen, has revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone that Eddie took the pills not in an effort to harm himself, but to chase the feeling he thought they would give him.

Alex explained that Eddie had the pills as medication to combat swelling after surgery to remove a brain tumour. “Common sense was not Ed’s strong point,” he said. “If two’s good, twenty’s better. That was our mantra.”

 

“I didn’t see the bottle,” he added. “But the bottle had, like, a thousand pills in it.”