The Outrageous Life of Legendary KISS Rockstar Gene Simmons

Although he has long said he never intentionally used drugs, he later told a story about accidentally getting high in the 1970s after eating marijuana brownies after a KISS show. The episode became an odd exception inside his otherwise strict public stance on sobriety.

The story mattered because he often connected his drug-free life to his mother, Flora Klein, and the suffering she survived during the Holocaust. Even in a band famous for excess and shock, he presented himself as disciplined. The wildest image in KISS came with strict personal rules.