DJ AM's Final Days: Broken-hearted Over A Split
Adam Goldstein's sudden death was predated by a painful breakup.
Adam Goldstein — better known as DJ AM — was found dead last night (Friday, August 28) in his New York City apartment. Police, prompted to enter his apartment after a friend called 911, found him face down, shirtless, and surrounded by prescription drugs and a crack pipe. He was 36.
To those who are familiar with his story, Goldstein's end is both shocking and heartbreaking. Over the years, he'd survived two other near-death experiences (first, at age 24, when the gun he tried to kill himself with jammed; and second, when he, along with Travis Barker, survived a plane crash that killed four others last year). He also successfully (or so it seemed) kicked his addictions to food and drugs, dropping over one hundred pounds with the help of gastric bypass surgery and giving up booze and crack for Red Bull and water.
But despite cleaning up his act and surviving the seemingly unsurvivable, Goldstein still battled his demons. On his website, he admitted to struggling with survivor's guilt after the plane crash. And according to a friend, he was suffering from severe hearthache after his recent breakup with model Hayley Wood.
Talking with People, this friend explains: "She ended it, and he didn't want it to end. The breakup hurt him. He hadn't been in a good place lately. For the past week, he wasn't really around, he was keeping to himsef, and he was blowing off people."
The cause of DJ AM's death has not been released, but police say there is no evidence of foul play.
Photo via Bauer Griffin.
Discussion
This was a shocking news. Why did it happen? The suicide of DJ AM wasn't something that anyone really saw coming. He was only 36 years old, he was relatively famous, successful, he had everything going for him, and they've been speaking to anyone who will discuss it that knew him. He was dating model Haley Wood at the time, and though it would seem that a person should perhaps be left to her grief – the vultures are what they are, and had to get a statement. Haley Wood disclosed that rumors that DJ AM, real name Adam Goldstein, and her were very much together, and a rumored breakup was a detestable rumor. It would be great if someone could give the gossip hounds a cash advance to let celebrities, like Haley Wood, grieve in privacy.
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what a moron. i was shocked to say the elast especially after this moron walked away from a crash and survived a suicide 12 years ago. he was in the Bryant Park Hotel trying to smoke dope when he was ordered out by the toilet attendant, and when he wouldnt leave my brother had to intervene to get him and his friend out of the toilet. what a pair of asses those 2 druggies. no wonder Nicole liked him so much.
Unfortunately,I can relate to what he was feeling. I was so depressed and despondent at age 16 when a guy dumped me that I tried to slit my wrist. It took me quite a while to recover from that heartache. I THAK GOD every day that I wasn't successful in my suicide attempt and that nowadays I know that nothing is worth trying to end your life. But,that experience changed me forever and I'd like to think somehow I'm stronger today because of it.
