{"id":283458,"date":"2019-11-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1089898"},"modified":"2019-11-13T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:00:00","slug":"late-3-doors-down-guitarist-matt-roberts-knew-the-rock-n-roll-lifestyle-was-killing-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/late-3-doors-down-guitarist-matt-roberts-knew-the-rock-n-roll-lifestyle-was-killing-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Late 3 Doors Down Guitarist Matt Roberts Knew the Rock ‘n’ Roll Lifestyle Was “Killing” Him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fame isn’t for everyone.<\/p>\n

In fact, Sunday’s all-new<\/a> E! True Hollywood Story<\/em> discusses how 3 Doors Down<\/strong> lead guitarist Matt Roberts<\/strong>‘ anxiety and stage fright led to a deadly opioid addiction. Amid the “Kryptonite” band’s immense success, it’s said Roberts became overwhelmed by the constant attention.<\/p>\n

“The red carpet of life was rolled out, but Matt really struggled with stress and the pressure,” father Darrell Roberts<\/strong> notes in the clip above. “Being in the public eye, I think the pills is something that he turned to to help him cope.”<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Drew Pinsky<\/strong>, for those not addicted to drugs, medication might be a reasonable solution for anxiety struggles. However, in Roberts’ case, he felt the musician should’ve found an alternative solution due to the hardships of touring.<\/p>\n

As E! readers surely recall, the former 3 Doors Down rocker died on August 20, 2016 from an overdose<\/a>. He was 38 years old.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Per Roberts’ father, the guitarist was aware that the Rock ‘n’ Roll lifestyle was taking a terrible toll on his body.<\/p>\n

“I won’t ever forget, he said, ‘You know, Dad? Everything you’ve ever read and seen about Rock ‘n’ Roll with the drugs, we’re living it,'” the elder Roberts reflects to the THS<\/em> camera. “And he said, ‘It’s killing us.'”<\/p>\n

For Darrell’s insights into Matt’s struggle, be sure to watch the highlight above.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Watch a brand new episode of E! True Hollywood Story<\/i> Sunday at 10 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fame isn’t for everyone. In fact, Sunday’s all-new E! True Hollywood Story discusses how 3 Doors Down lead guitarist Matt Roberts‘ anxiety and stage fright led to a deadly opioid addiction. Amid the “Kryptonite” band’s immense success, it’s said Roberts became overwhelmed by the constant attention. “The red carpet of life was rolled out, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-13 11:21:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}