A rock and roll legend is blaming his former bandmate’s death on “bad decisions.”

In a new interview with the New York Post , KISS frontman Gene Simmons suggested substance abuse caused guitarist Ace Frehley to die from a fall down the stairs at his home studio in Morristown, N.J. Frehley suffered a brain bleed and died weeks later on Oct. 16 at age 74.

“He refused [advice] from people that cared about him – including yours truly – to try to change his lifestyle. In and out of bad decisions. Falling down the stairs — I’m not a doctor — doesn’t kill you. There may have been other issues, and it breaks my heart,” Simmons told the Post. “The saddest thing – you reap what you shall sow unfortunately.”

Frehley’s cause of death was blunt force injuries to the head from an accidental fal

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