Demri Lara Parrot
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NEW PICTURES! I posted some new pictures of Demri that were sent to me recently. Amazing! Plus all new pictures in the future will be posted on the new website as well so please leave your comments there in the future. Thank you!
Demri Lara Parrot was a beautiful woman and most people who will come here looking for information will come because they know her as Layne Staley’s girlfriend or because they knew her and are curious what they’ll find online about her. Well, unfortunately there’s not a lot of information online about Demri. Very few people have posted pictures and even fewer of her friends have come forward to talk about her. Why? I’m not sure. Maybe they think it’s rude to write about her online.. I don’t share that opinion.
She was my friend and people who love Layne and his music are interested in who she was and I think she’d think that was cool. I also know that she would like it if someone she knew posted her pictures and talked about who she was. Demri was incredible and she deserves to be remembered.
Demri passed away Oct. 29, 1996 and those who knew her.. miss her. I think about her often.
I’m dedicating this page to Demri and Layne and their love, life and friendship.
I hope people enjoy the pictures and leave a comment.
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Demri Lara Parrot
| Birth: | Feb. 22, 1969 | |
| Death: | Oct. 29, 1996 |
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Demri was a close friend of mine for many years and losing her hurt everyone that loved her. If you’ve read some of the stories about her online, please take them with a grain of salt and take heed to the sources.
Pay attention to the ones that say she was super funny and beautiful and a very sick “tiny” little girl who was basically seduced and taken captive by heroin. She was a talented young woman who died before she even turned 30 or got the chance to have a child or have a career or get married. She missed out on so many things because of a little bad luck, drugs and her stubburn ass. I always used to say she burned her candle at both ends and that was truly how she lived her life and no one could reign her in. No one.
If I could say one thing to the people who are searching her out online. I’d say.. never do hard drugs and I’m not just saying that because that’s the right thing to say in this situation I’m saying it because that’s what Demri would want me to say. She loved people and she’d never want to think that people romantasized her life and her death and maybe tried heroin to see what it was like because her and Layne did it. Just remember you can die the first time you do it and never forget that. If your already addicted then please get help. Soon.
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she is beautiful
Nice to see what woman touched the soul of the greatest vocalist ever
what a beauty.
She was a very beautiful woman. I loved Layne as a fan and from the pics I’ve seen and what I’ve read about Demri, I can see why he loved her so much.
She must have really been hooked on heroin…I did some research and her name shows up in Seattle court records for prostitution and theft. Does anyone speculate that’s the reason why they split? The timing of the split coincides with the date she was busted for prostitution. I don’t get it…she’s dating a guy who was world famous at the time (and probably had serious money to feed her habit) and she resorts to that. There are definitely pieces to this puzzle that are missing. I wish someone with definitive insider knowledge could provide the pieces. It’s certainly a story worth telling…if for no other reason than to sound an alarm on the perils of drug use. In any event, she was a pretty girl. It’s a shame she destroyed her life.
Another beautiful soul here for what seems to be a fleeting instant–before i knew you were here, you were gone… In 2008, rock music sucks, and beautiful, dark, soulful muses with substance seem to be few & nill, ( if you ARE out there, MAKE YOURSELVES KNOWN, PLEASE!)– you are both now only dust circling in the cold desolate wind. Your love’s music echoes no more– and your twirling dances and big twinkly smiles are but a haunting memory. Your lights have been extinguished, and it is dark-so dark…I know from x-perience what travesties dope does. They weren’t just 2 more junkies we lost–they were ARTISTS. Honor them. The world is a colder place without them. And Layne was the greatest rock singer of my generation and beyond…No one can touch him or even come close! Demri opened fire on his heart– it is a tragic, beautiful love story that will continue to resonate deep in my soul & captivate me till the day i die…R.I.P. with the utmost love and sincerity!!
I wanted to respond to you all at once to make it easier. I don’t really know what to say though..I knew Demri and Layne for several years basically from 1992-1996 and we were good friends. We had some good times and some crazy bad times just like every friendship..well maybe not. I think the the crazy lifestyle and just the extremes involved in the life we were living made the good times AMAZING chance in a life time experiences and the bad times were also extreme and more horrific then usual. Some of us made it out alive and a lot of us were not so lucky. I truly believe Demri would of been destined for greatness..if only she had never tried heroin. Just imagine how different things could of turned out if Layne had never tried Heroin? It’s hard to predict. I guess he wouldn’t of written the music he did but he could of let it go, I wish he would of. It was like he was determined to make sure that heroin ended him like it did her and he accomplished that. He worked real hard at it too. He dedicated his whole exsistance to it in the end. I personally took off after Demri passed and never looked back. I lost two of my best friends in a six month period and I never looked back. But I have friends who spent time with him in the end and from what they’ve told me it was pretty bad. So, basically that’s why no one wants to talk. Because the people who honestly know how it was have nothing good to say or never go online.
But, I have a lot of good things to say about Layne and Demri before all the evil shit entered the scene and I want to share those things with people who are honestly interested but I feel like a big liar if I don’t also include the whole story. I don’t have enough space to write it all but I can say a few things for now. Layne was a funny, charismatic, sweet, kind, guy. He loved his family. He loved his friends and he loved music. He had a love/hate relationship with Demri and they considered themselves to be soul mates at one time. They broke up sometime after Dirt was released and continued to be in each others lives off and on until she passed. He tried many times to get her clean as well as himself but Demri had her own plans and was hard to tie down. I honestly believe if she would of, he would of. I don’t know what she was running from but she ran hard and fast until she was tied to a hospital bed and forced to reevaluate her life and that didn’t even do the trick. I feel so sorry for her I wish there was something that could of filled her emptiness besides her drugs but she never found it.
Either did Layne. He threw away a boyhood dream to be a rockstar, hid away in his apartment and wasted away. I honestly believe he did it on purpose. He was extremely ashamed of what he had become and didn’t want anyone to see the dirty shadow he believed himself to be. He wasn’t of course but that’s how he saw himself. he didn’t shut people out because he didn’t love them or didn’t care he did it because he did. I think that will make sense to anyone who’s been involved with an addict or has been addicted themselves. There is so much shame and self mutilation involved in heroin addiction. Heroin addiction truly IS slow suicide.
My favorite music by Layne is the Mad Season album. Mad Season was his project and his personality really came through in his songs.
Demri was a tiny, hilarious, charismatic goof ball who liked to shock people and make people laugh and she did both really well. Most people who honestly knew her will say the same.
She was beautiful and extremely charming and reminded me of a little hurricane. She had the ability to capture your attention and hold it for as long as she decided and from anyone she wanted. If she wanted you to fall in love with her..you would. Period. I’ve never met anyone like her to be straight up honest. I’m not saying these are all good attributes..she knew how to use her charm to get what she wanted and what she wanted wasn’t always good. Let’s just say she was a powerful little girl. I call her a little girl because she was so tiny. I’m guessing specifics because I never asked but I’d say she was 4 foot 12 and 80 pounds with round hips and no boobies. Long wavy hair down past her butt and most the time had some developing dreds or tangles in it which she’d wind up and tie to the top of her head. She had s uper cool sense of style, she’d wear vintage dresses and clothes she made. Everything looks chic and cool on Demri…drove me crazy, she could pull off anything. I always felt like a clumsy giant next to her and I’m pretty small myself especially at the time. Today, I’m 5′5 120 so I’m not big by no means but next to her I always felt like a monster woman. Haha! I met her 16 years ago! Crazy how time flies. Ok I’m done for now. I hope this helped to shine some light on who Demri was. I could never even touch the edges of who she was of course.
We are all so complex it’d be a true joke for me to claim to be able to capture someones personality in mere words.
Layne and Demri were both amazing people who were complex and beautiful just like we all are. They’re not super human or even above average. There just like you and me. Special.
I think that was one thing Layne always wanted people to know..that he was just a regular guy. Ok, he was pretty special but don’t let him hear you say that and then again don’t let him hear you say he wasn’t..don’t we all think like that? I know I do. *wink*
Thank you so much for your insight. She was so beautiful and sounded like so much fun!
finally someone that realy knew them and dont talk about them as the victim/junkie like almost everyone seem to do a beautiful person indeed inside and out thanks a lot for the nice things you say about them and the pictures this is so out of the subject but it kinda freaked me out a bit is that i kinda look like her 0.0
Thanks for posting about Demri and Layne…your knowledge of them really portrays them as “real” people who are sadly no longer with us. Your descriptions of her personality and even the way she wore her hair really make me feel like I know her. Can I ask how you met Demri?
Hi there, I want to know more. Can you tell any stories about her? Specifically about her being hard to tie down and having her own way? I like the idea of her being a free spirit and I’d like to know what her plans were….did they include Layne? Did she date anyone else?
Very cool site here. I had been looking around trying to figure out what happened to Layne once Demri passed on. Musically speaking. She died in 1996, and it doesn’t seem like Alice in Chains put out any more records after that. I might be wrong. But it appears that her death really was the trigger to his downfall. Which is sad, but also shows a side of Layne that the public was never aware of. It seems as though he was completely in love with her in every sense. So did he feel like he had no reason to live after she died? Romantic in a sick sense, but also very sad. I read that Laynes real father came around a lot after he found fame and was getting loaded with Layne. I read that his dad was a real source of pain for Layne and he spent a lot of time trying to find him. Then when Layne got rich, he came out of the woodworks claiming that he wanted to rekindle. Then it just turned into him and his dad doing dope all the time together. Hmmmm. All this just leads to one thing. A hopelessly depressed, lovesick, and tender person who just didn’t know how to he could make it better. And after Demri died, I don’t think he even wanted to make it better.
To answer your question Niki, Once Demri passed Layne had a hard time coping with her loss but they had already been separated for some time. They were not together when she passed away but it still hit him extremely hard because she was really the only true love of his life and also a really good friend. It’s been said he was put on suicide watch for 24 hours but I don’t know if that’s true or not since I didn’t hear that from a reliable source only on the internet and I never heard that from him personally. In fact when Demri passed I left Seattle and never went back. So, I never saw Layne again. I know it hit him hard because it hit everyone who cared about her hard, and so I know it must of hit him harder then most. I know he was never the same and that he passed away only a few short years later from depression and drug abuse. I can’t say it was all because of Demri though I think it was an accumulation of pain and numerous losses that caused him to fall so low. Layne had a lot of shame and embarrassment built up from what he had become and hid himself from the ones he loved because of it.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said this.. “A hopelessly depressed, lovesick, and tender person who just didn’t know how to he could make it better. And after Demri died, I don’t think he even wanted to make it better”.
I was just reading over all of this, and it’s all very fascinating to me…the whole thing really..I spend most of my spare time reading up on Layne, Demri, etc. so it was nice to find this page especially. I too looked up Seattle court records (i do that with people I know all the time) and though it did show she had SEVERAL offenses, it would only tell you the date(s), case numbers and area of citation, etc. so i was just wondering how you (mark) found more details? I also feel a kinship to them and their struggles especially since I have been a heroin addict myself since 17..so it hits close to home, and maybe that is partially where my original interest stemmed from, perhaps. It’s hard to explain but it’s just kind of interesting to look into someone elses lives and realize they felt the exact same as you have with the same struggles. But the court record thing kind of caught my interest..It’s good to see some good pics of Demri too, since there’s really mainly only the same one or two on all of the internet, so that was a nice, rare glimpse to catch!
i was addicted to drugs, huffing etc.laynes music made me feel not alone.i didnt know much of demri but she obviously had a beauty about her.whoever runs this site i thank you for keeping their spirits alive.
Thank you for the great pictures and info. I was hoping you could tell me when and how they met ? Thanks!
What kind of clothes did she wear? Did she ever cut her hair, so did she always want it to be long?
Demri was one of a kind, that is for sure. 4’11″ and probably 95lbs (quite a bit less when she died) but nevertheless always the largest presence in the room. To answer the question of why she might have gotten busted for this or that (and she’d be really pissed you posted that here), was the fact that she and Layne had split up in 94 and she was responsible for getting her own heroin.
One of her favorite stories was the time her mom took her to a drug treatment center way out in the middle of nowhere by Port Angeles, in a remote location so she wouldn’t split. Her mom left and went straight home. When she walked in the house, there was Demri getting some of her stuff. The first car that pulled up she talked the driver into taking her all the way back to Seattle, they took the ferry and her mom drove around. Demri had beaten her home by 15 minutes.
She was very sick in the end. She’d had open heart surgury and had nerve damage to her feet which were mostly numb. She had no body fat at all, and was cold all the time, often the car’s heater would be on full blast, even on a nice day. Everyone would be sweating and she’d be shivering and wearing a sweater.
As to her clothing style, it was kind of hippy chick but distintively Demri. She was friends to everyone and wasn’t afraid of anyone. She didn’t tattoo or pierce because she wanted to be different than everyone else. She thought the punks were conforming through their uncomformity.
She loved all kinds of grunge music, but she also liked guys like Cat Stevens and Jackson Browne. She loved watching classic old movies with actors like Bogart, Fred Astaire, and the like. She enjoyed decorating old suitcases.
Anybody want me to post anymore stuff?
Jacque, Do I know you? You obviously know Demri actually your the first person online who I believe knew her because you described her perfectly haha! Did you know Rosheen? Rosheen passed away 6 months after Demri. She was my best friend. We grew up together in California then she came up to Seattle to be with me and met Demri and they fell hard for each other. Rosheen was a very devoted friend and I’m not sure if Demri’s death pushed her over the edge or not but I would not be surprised.
Beautiful Dem.
When Demri was in the hospital I was on my way out of Seattle. I think in fact I was pregnant with my first baby so I only got to see her once.
I’m happy to see people are interested in her and I know she would think that was cool. I think she’d also be excited to know that a large portion of the hits I get on this site are search results for “Demri Parrot”.
Anyway..clue me into who you are..I’m sure our paths must of crossed at some point.
Demri’s Mom was an awesome woman. I stayed at her house once for like a week. Demri had brought me there, we were gonna try and stay there for awhile and get away from the city but within hours she left back to Seattle, she just couldn’t hang but I was worn out and tired of running wild. I begged her to stay with me but that was useless. I couldn’t do it anymore though and Demri told me to stay so I did. I seriously needed a break and her Mom allowed me to stay there and recuperate. We were very young. I think I was probably 21-22 and Dem was probably 23…so it was just me and her Mom and brother. I’ll never forget her kindness.
Did you know Darin Lamb? Fab? Demitree? Hope to see you around here again. It’s always nice to hear stories about her from other people who knew her too.
I might know you, perhaps if you give your real first name I could tell you. I knew Rosheen rather well. It broke my heart to hear she’d passed.
My real first name is Barbara! I signed my real first and last name in the email that I sent you..maybe you didn’t get it. Yep, No lie. I’ve been writing online for over 8 years and I’ve used several user names ibdreamy being my main user name but Barbara really is my ugly and real name. You think if I was going to pick a fake name I’d pick something a whole lot cooler then Barbara Dearaujo… can you even say that name? haha! I’d pick Olivia, Jade, Taylor, Dylan oh I don’t know something pretty that rolls off the tongue..absolutely not Barbara! Do you even know any one under 80 named Barbara?
Anyways, I don’t really have to prove anything to you I just thought it’d be cool to actually talk to someone who knew her too.
Rosheen and I grew up together in Laguna Beach and she was a tiny little tom boy who I loved with all my heart. I sent you the links to my pictures. I don’t think I look much different then I did back then but maybe..I don’t recognize your name so we might not know each other. Do you have pictures? You also have to remember it’s been over 10 years since I was even in Seattle and almost 18 years since I first met Demri granted we were friends for 6 years after that but still it’s been a lifetime. It is completly possible that we never met each other. Demri had a lot of friends but we all hung out in a smaller crowd that she and I stayed around for years. You know like a core group of friends. Do you know Mara? Fab? Those two and Ro are the only women I really knew that she hung out with on a regular long term basis.
I met her when I was 19. I was dating Mike Starr. Haha! Then when they all left to make Dirt in LA I broke up with Mike and started dating Darin Lamb who I was with for 2 years…this was before he went completely crazy..me, Darin and Demri and Paul Uhlir from Sweet Water all went to the Oregon Country Fair that summer.
Oh God. Thanks for sharing this.
Demi was so beautiful and misterius. I though she was an alternative model or something.
I love that couple. Poor guys.
Will you post any stories about Layne & Demri?
Speaking of ex’s of Mike Starr’s, did you know D’Lene?
No I never met any of his ex girlfriends. Remember..this was back in 1992 so even if he did mentioned a girls name.. like I’d remember their name? Ha! No. I have a crappy memory and I’m totally terrible with names espcially old “girlfriends” names.
There was a girl he dated before me but all I remember was she was a cute sweet looking little blonde girl. Me and Mike were only together for like 6-7 months. We did stay friends though after that for years and he even gave me one one of their platnum albums “Facelift” 3 years after we broke up when they finally got them. It has my name on it and it’s hanging in my living room and it’s one of my prized possessions. I’ll take a picture sometime and post it. Maybe.
Did you know Tracy Johnson? Claudia? Demitree? Fabiola, Mara? the guys in sweetwater? Those were her core friends I’d say. When did you hang out with her? If it was after she was in the hospital then I probably don’t know you because I was started at that point to break away from the whole Seattle scene and starting my family. My first baby and I have 3 was born in April of 1997. I was pregnant when Demri passed away. I was so sad that I didn’t really get to say goodbye and that we had grown apart in the end. I hope that she had some good people in her life in the end. I don’t know what Demri was searching for or what would of been that “thing” that “fixed” her broken heart but I hope she’s in peace now..finally and I hope that she knew how loved she was.
Demri was a huge fan of the Cocteau Twins and if you’ve never heard their music I recommend checking them out. I LOVE them too.
I just thought I’d add that just in case people might be curious as too what kind of music besides grunge. She also like the Cure, Violent Femmes, Janes Addiction and she was actually friends with Perry Farrell from Janes Addiction.
She loved to create crafts like paper collages and decoupage which is where she’d cut out Victorian styled angels and fairies and flowers.. usually from real pretty wrapping paper, wallpaper or whatever she could find (stuff like this) and then she’d use decoupage clue and clue them all to boxes, antique makeup totes and carry cases. She loved to surround herself with art and pictures. She’d also cut out pictures and then plaster the walls in her apartment and then later in her hospital room with all kinds of art collages and hanging dried flowers. She loved dried flowers and incesne. But Demri was a not a hippy, goth, grunge girl..she was her own creation. She was the “it” girl in Seattle in the early 90′s and anyone who knew her and the club scene at the time I doubt would argue with me on that.
You can see an example of the type of stuff she did in these pictures..not her stuff but you’ll get the point I think.
Decoupaged Suit Case
Paper project..so Demri
She liked cupids, hearts and anything Victorian for example these Victorian clip art.
In the early 90′s she dressed in all kinds of crazy yet cute clothes anything retro or vintage. She loved long dresses, skirts, tutu’s, over-alls and doc martins, hand-made clothes, she never really wore jeans and t-shirts it was always something you’d never think of wearing but looked great on her and made you wish you would thought of it type of thing but even if you had of it probably wouldn’t of looked as cool on you..haha. She had that tiny little body that looks great in clothes.
She always wore her hair really long like too her butt or longer and she had thick wavy auburn hair and even though it was usually knotted and dred locked here and there but knotted or not it always looked cool. She wore black nail polish and when she wore make up she used maybe some black mascara and red lips but she didn’t usually wear a lot of make up maybe except for lipstick when she went out. She was also the first girl I met who used her lipstick to add blush to her cheeks. She also wore Patchouli oil and oil perfumes..which I’m not a fan of myself but it smelled good on her and she definitely had a very distinct smell. Her whole house smelled like her, her clothes, and if she stayed at my house.. my house smelled like her too. It was not a bad smell not at all just uniquely Demri. She always looked adorable even when she wasn’t trying.
What else can I say.. the girl was unique and amazing and since she was older then me..I always kind of looked up to her so if it sounds like I’m idolizing her her.. I’m not. I know Demri had her faults and I believe me I was not blind to those but we all do and why talk about those over and over when she’s gone forever, what good does that do? I want to remember the funny, sweet, beautiful parts of her and share those things with the people who are interested and from the stats on this post it sure seems that there are a lot of people who are interested in knowing more about who Demri really was.
I just wanted to add a little more and to shed more light on who she was as a girl and not just the tragedy. She was so much more then that….
Ibdreamy, did you spend time with Layne? What was he like?
That Victorian stuff…..I wonder if she made the decorations around the picture of her and Layne behind the gate….
Thanks to both of you for sharing your stories. I don’t really want to hear about the arrests, addictions, illness. I want to know what kind of person she was, because all you seem to hear about is the negative stuff. Layne obviously loved her for the person she was. Her style sounded so interesting, and sort of like mine(docs, dresses, black nail polish…and I though I was the only one who dressed like this). Any other stories you’d like to post, we’d all love to hear them.
Also, ibdreamy, please email me, I have a “new” photo of Demri that I can’t show on the internet public. I think you will like it.
Another tidbit about Demri, she absolutely hated groupies. It seemed like everywhere she went, eveyone was always saying…”there’s Layne’s girlfriend.” People were always trying to get close to her, to try and get close to Layne. It really pissed her off, because she was a star in her own right. If some girl or guy were chatting her up and it became apparent they were big fans of Layne, she’d ditch them fast.
I think that’s what she liked about me. I’d been talking to her somewhat unsuccessfully, when someone came up and said, “you know she’s Layne Staley’s
s girlfriend?” I said Layne? Who is Layne? You know the lead singer of Alice in Chains? “Never heard of them”, I said. They thought I was joking, but I was a bit late to the grunge scene. Anyway, she loved the fact I was talking to her and I didn’t even know who she was. We became friends after that.