“This is a person who was so loved.'
In addition to her sisters, she’s survived by her parents, Denise and Terry Simmons, who live in Centennial.
The family is adamant that Simmons’s story be shared publicly, so that her death can inspire more open conversations about alcoholism and other addictions, particularly in the music world. Last week, when she was put on the transplant list for a new liver, Simmons was told that she had a 50 percent chance of surviving. She soon developed pneumonia, though, Smith says, and her kidneys started failing. “She was just yellow, really yellow,” Smith adds. “She had shown up at my parents' house sick at the end of September, and her skin was yellow then, and Lynde flew in from Arizona to convince her to go to the hospital.
“I wish we could get really real about the life of bands who tour and the drinking and drugs that go on,” says Kendall Oliver, a fellow musician and one of Simmons’s closest friends since 2013, who was with her when she passed. “Once you’re in that life, it’s so, so hard to find a way out, because it’s so accepted to be drunk and drugged-up all the time."
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