In a new interview, Kiss bassist Gene Simmons blames a series of "bad decisions" for contributing to the recent death of his former bandmate Ace Frehley .

Frehley, the band's founding lead guitarist, suffered multiple skull fractures and a brain bleed after a Sept. 25 fall at his home studio. He was placed on a ventilator but showed no signs of improvement, and on Oct. 16 his family removed him from life support . An autopsy declared the cause of Frehley's death to be accidental blunt force trauma.

Although Frehely repeated stated he had been sober for about 20 years prior to his death, Simmons declared the guitarist 'refused [advice] from people that cared about him – including yours truly – to try to change his lifestyle," Simmons told the New York Post . "In and out of bad

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