Avicii Opened Up About Substance Abuse, Poor Health, & Overwhelming Fame In 2016 Interview
Like countless others, we are still reeling from the news of Avicii's passing.
As we reported, the talented DJ passed away on Friday at the young age of 28. Although he has been battling health issues for years, his cause of death remains unreported at this time.
In a 2016 interview, the artist (real name Tim Bergling) talked about his poor health and overwhelming fame shortly after announcing his retirement from live touring. This all came after he was suffering from several health issues, including acute pancreatitis partly due to excessive drinking. After having his gallbladder and appendix removed in 2014, he canceled a series of shows in attempt to recover.
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He told The Hollywood Reporter at the time of his decision to retire:
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if you ever listened to howards show you would know he would never cave in and be on leno's show. he can't stand him, and makes it well known. i LOVE howard!
Good for him! Leno is a dick! Team Letterman, all the way baby!
The world balances out since myself and alot of other people won't watch America's Got Talent with Howard Stern on it.
Stern disliking Leno and never wanting to be on his show just gives me another reason to like Jay and watch his show
Letterman just needs to grow up and accept that years ago NBC picked Jay
so as I said…Letterman should stop being childish and get over it!!
Of course not because the 12 people that are stuck in 1997 that still listen to Howard Sterns not funny, irrelevant, passe' show probably have no idea what America's Got talent even is. They are too busy watching porn or or old Baywatch reruns.
Besides it makes Howard jealous that there are actually people in the US that have talent, something he'd give every hair plug on his head for.
& If the money were right that money grubbing ugly hasbeen bignose would jump at it.
Leno is actually quite nice. Letterman too.
MzSavvy you're an idiot. I neither watch porn nor Baywatch. I've listened to Howard every day for the last 15 years. Clearly you have no clue what he is about.