Gidget Gein, former bassist of Marilyn Manson, was found dead in his home last Thursday from an apparent heroin overdose.

Gein, whose real name is Bradley Stewart, was fired from the band back in 1993 after recovering from another overdose. He was soon replaced by Twiggy Ramirez, who has also battled from substance abuse and has since been fired and rehired by the band.

Gein’s death has been ruled accidental.  He was 39 years old.

Like other MM band members, Gein got his name from a famous woman and a serial killer. (Gidget was derived after the Sally Field character, and Gein is after the notorious Ed Gein.)

He had recently completed rehab and just started a band called, People.

Manson himself once wrote about his friend in his 1998 autobiography, “The Long Hard Road Out of Hell.” He spoke about how it pained him to lose his very good friend to drugs.

“My entire message and everything I’d begun striving to be as a person ran in direct opposition to Brad. I wanted to be strong and independent, to think for myself and help other people think for themselves.”

Gein was also a renowned artist whose work was often displayed at local parties.

Olivia Newton Bundy, another former bandmate of Manson’s, wrote about his friend’s death on the LA Weekly website, “That totally sucks. But lessions [sic] should be learned from this. He lost a great gig due to drugs and now he’s lost his life. R.I.P.”

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