Earlier this week, the Reelz network released a sneak peek of a new documentary series featuring legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen. “Autopsy: The Last Hours Of Eddie Van Halen” will air on June 5. Eddie Van Halen passed away on Oct. 6, 2020. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame artist had struggled with health problems in the final two decades of his life after undergoing hip replacement surgery in 1999 and being diagnosed with mouth cancer in 2000. He later battled lung cancer and suffered a motorcycle accident in 2019 and was subsequently diagnosed with a brain tumor.
His son, Mammoth WVH guitarist/singer Wolfgang Van Halen, blasted the Reelz channel for the documentary on Twitter saying: “F*ck @ReelzChannel, f*ck everyone that works on this show, and f*ck you if you watch it. F*cking disgusting trying to glamorize someone’s death from cancer. Pathetic and heartless.”
The official description of the documentary reads: “On October 6, 2020 the world was shocked by the news that guitar legend Eddie Van Halen had died. A rock prodigy with a boyish charm he was never more comfortable than when he had a guitar in his hand. Known as the founder of VAN HALEN, the band that became synonymous with California cool, Eddie was actually of both Dutch and Indonesian heritage. His family moved to California from the Netherlands when Eddie was a child. Eddie came to America without knowing English but by the time he was 25 years old his band had sold multiple platinum albums and his innovative guitar techniques cemented him in rock and roll history.”
“But behind his contagious smile there was a darker undercurrent that would plague Eddie throughout his life. As an extremely shy kid Eddie started drinking alcohol at just 12 years old to calm his nerves after seeing his father drink to calm himself and for the next four decades Eddie wrestled with addiction issues. Often relying on alcohol and other substances to maintain his creativity Eddie would spend many years in and out of rehab. He was a workaholic often pushing his body to the limits in order to perform while secretly battling illness.”
“Eddie died at the age of 65 from cancer but if caught early Eddie’s disease had reasonable survival rates so what exactly happened? Now renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter will analyze every detail of his life in order to piece together what else may have been going on in his body, ultimately leading to his untimely death.”
Wolfgang Van Halen appeared on “The Howard Stern Show” in November 2020, and talked about his father’s condition during the last few years of his life. He said: “At the end of 2017, [Eddie] was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. And the doctors were like, ‘You have six weeks.'” Wolfgang said his father received alternative cancer treatments in Germany. “Whatever the f*ck they do over there, it’s amazing because I got three more years with him,” Wolfgang said.
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