Layne Staley Last Days - Footage of the band's. After a long struggle with drug addiction, alice in chains singer layne staley died of a speedball overdose on april 5, 2002 โ but his body wasn't discovered for two weeks. Staley passed away on april 5, two weeks before his body was discovered, the same day that fellow grunge artist kurt cobain passed away eight years earlier, according to. The actual date of layne staleyโs death is april 5, 2002. Thatโs exactly 8 years to the day after the death of kurt cobain. That blows by eerie and goes right into uncanny. In his final interview, conducted less than three months before he died from an overdose of heroin and cocaine last april, alice in chains singer layne staley looked and.
Footage of the band's. After a long struggle with drug addiction, alice in chains singer layne staley died of a speedball overdose on april 5, 2002 โ but his body wasn't discovered for two weeks.