WARRANT Singer Jani Lane Battled Alcoholism For a Decade, Says His Sister
August 12, 2011, 12 years ago
Oswald-Ley says her little brother, whose real name was John Kennedy Oswald, had fought his demons with drink for the past decade.
"He would get clean and sober and then fall off the wagon. Our mom died seven years ago, and she was always the glue that kept us together," she explained through her tears."She would always talk him into going to rehab and hospitals. I think when she passed that desire to stay healthy died too."
"He was so talented and witty and bright, but he shut his siblings out and I know that is because he was ashamed of his drinking. We would all have flown out to Los Angeles from Ohio to bring him back if he'd let us but he isolated himself.
“There wasn't a day when one of us didn’t try to contact him."
Investigators found a half-empty bottle of vodka and prescription medication in the hotel room where Jani Lane died yesterday (August 11th) TMZ has learned. Paramedics were called to the Comfort Inn in Woodland Hills, CA yesterday around 5:15 PM. He was pronounced dead on the scene. An autopsy is scheduled for later today. Lane's death is being treated as an accidental overdose or a possible death from natural causes.
