KCCI 8 News Brenna Gray, wife of Slipknot’s Paul Gray, cries as she speaks about her husband’s death and addiction in Polk County District Court in Iowa on Tuesday.
KCCI 8 News Dr. Daniel Baldi listens Tuesday during his trial at Polk County District Court. Prosecutors say Baldi’s “careless prescription habits” lead to nine patients’ death.
Naki/Redferns Paul Gray and Corey Taylor of Slipknot perform in London in 2008. Gray’s wife says none of the band members showed up when she held an intervention.
Charlie Neibergall/AP Family and friends of Slipknot band members react during a news conference about the death of bassist Paul Gray on May 25, 2010.
Charlie Neibergall/ASSOCIATED PRESS Slipknot band members Corey Taylor (L) and Shawn Crahan lean on each other after speaking about the death of bassist Paul Gray during a news conference in 2010 in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Slipknot’s Paul Gray spent his final weeks on earth in a “blur” of extreme drug abuse, his wife told a court Tuesday.
The group’s bassist, who died from an overdose in May 2010, was in a downward spiral which neither his bandmates nor doctor would help her confront, Brenna Gray claimed.
Gray said she questioned why her husband’s Des Moines, Iowa, doctor Daniel Baldi was continuing to prescribe him anti-anxiety drug Xanax — despite his history of abusing.
“I just knew it was his drug of choice, that he’d struggled with it,” she testified, according to the Des Moines Register.
“So I just wasn’t really sure why he was on it, why he needed it along with the medication he was taking for addiction,” she added.
He arrives for the 47th annual Grammy Awards in 2005 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Paul Gray, bass player for the band Slipknot, died of an overdose of narcotic painkillers in 2010. At right, he arrives for the 2005 Grammy Awards.
She alleged that she showed pictures of her passed out husband to Baldi in a bid to get him to take the abuse more seriously.
Gray also claims to have tried getting bandmates to help stage an intervention. Despite being just minutes away, however, she claims “none offered to help.”
Gray made the claims during testimony at Baldi’s trial at Polk County District Court.
The medic faces nine counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of Gray, who died at an Urbandale motel, and eight others.
I just wasn’t really sure why he was on (Xanax), why he needed it.
He is accused of over-prescribing painkillers, which ultimately led to their deaths, the Register reported.
Prosecutors say the deaths resulted from Baldi’s “careless prescription habits.”
Baldi denies the claims, with his lawyer alleging Baldi didn’t even prescribe the drugs that caused the deaths.
If convicted, Baldi could face up to 18 years in prison.
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