By April MacIntyre Sep 3, 2009, 1:33 GMT
Last week's shock death of celebrity DJ and reality TV star DJ AM, Adam Goldstein, has filled with headlines and speculation as to why and how he died.
RIP US disc jockey Adam Goldstein, "We all know him as DJ AM." Said DiSanto. "We know him as the world-famous DJ who really elevated the art form and brought it into the mainstream. He also made the news last year as a survivor of that deadly, tragic plane crash. But what many of us don't know is that Adam battled a ten-year-long addiction to drugs." EPA/PAUL BUCK
Goldstein was to star as host of a brutally honest, unflinching reality series on MTV that had MTV president of programming, Tony DiSanto, introduce DJ AM at the recent TCA's in Pasadena, California.
DiSanto moderated the "Gone Too Far" panel and cued the clip for all of us assembled TV critics, this show part of a "robust slate" of various new MTV programming.
"We all know him as DJ AM." Said DiSanto. "We know him as the world-famous DJ who really elevated the art form and brought it into the mainstream. He also made the news last year as a survivor of that deadly, tragic plane crash. But what many of us don't know is that Adam battled a ten-year-long addiction to drugs."
DiSanto continued. "Now, he came through. He got himself clean and got his life back on track. And now he wants to use that experience, his influence, to help other kids, to help kids who have made wrong choices, whose life is spiraling out of control...of kids who have gone too far."
DJ AM was kind, accessible and well-liked among his peers and colleagues. Sadly, he was laid to rest in a private ceremony Wednesday (September 2) in Los Angeles.
USmagazine.com reports that many of his friends, including his estranged girlfriend Hayley Wood, and Travis Barker, who also survived that fiery plane crash in South Carolina last September, gathered at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles, at 3 p.m. local time for the funeral service, according to their report.
Barker postponed his tour with Blink-182 reportedly paid his respects and threw dirt on the coffin.
On Thursday at the Hollywood Palladium, a private memorial will be held in the spirit of an open 12-step meeting, with anonymity and trust expected to be honored in people's private remembrances of Adam.
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