In a recent interview on “Inside With Paulo Baron” Sammy Hagar revealed that he regrets exposing the dark side of Eddie Van Halen in his autobiography “Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock” (click here to check out our review of the book).
“I apologize from the bottom of my heart for exposing his dark side to where I don’t think anyone wants to hear that now, and, unfortunately, it’s in the book. And it’s true — it’s all true. It’s not like I have to say, ‘Oh, I was lying’ — no, no, no. If I wrote the book today, I would only put the good of Eddie Van Halen, because he was such a brilliant, genius guitar player and such a great friend and a great partner — until everything went wrong, like everything else. Anybody’s that’s been divorced or broke up with your girlfriend or your boyfriend, you know how it goes. Happy endings aren’t always the case in a relationship. (Eddie and me) had a happy ending — thank God — but before that, it wasn’t a happy ending of the band. But thank God we got it back together.”
When the host Regis Tadeu pointed out the importance of exposing someone’s dark side as part of the reality,” Sammy replied: “No one knew a lot of that about Eddie, but they’d see him on stage and they would think, ‘Why is he acting like that?’ And I would say, ‘Well, you should have seen what happened backstage. Holy fuck!’ If we’d have known he was sick then, then I would have understood and I would have been a little more, ‘Hey, Ed, come on,’ try to reel him in. But he was impossible. He was on a track of just wild. It was tough.”
