Demri Lara Parrott(February 22, 1969 - October 29, 1996) was best known for

her relationship with Layne Staley, the singer of rock band Alice in Chains.

Parrott was born in Bremerton, Washington to Kathleen Austin and Dennis Dougherty on February 22, 1969.

She also used the surname Murphy and had three younger brothers, Devin, Derek and David.

She attended school in Arlington, Washington.

Some of her interests included philosophy, poetry, decoupage, art and theater.

^[-1] She dropped out of high school her junior year and moved to Seattle.

She aspired to become a model or an actress.

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Layne Staley's mother, he and Parrott met at a party and got together sometime in the late 1980s.

She and her brothers are thanked in the liner notes of Alice in Chains' debut albumFacelift(1990).

She was widely believed to be the woman on the cover of the band's second album,*Dirt;*however, this was denied by her mother, and later revealed to be actress Mariah O'Brien.

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During her relationship with Staley, both developed a heroin addiction.

They got engaged in 1992, but split up sometime between 1993 and 1994.

Parrott was featured in the artwork of Mad Season's only album,Above, released in 1995.

The song "Lifeless Dead", written by Staley, is believed to be about the end of their relationship.

Due to her drug abuse, Parrott struggled with heart problems and underwent several open-heart surgeries.

She passed away on October 29, 1996 from endocarditis, an inflammation of the heart, caused by a heroin overdose, at the Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, Washington.

She was 27.

Demri is burried at the Ivy Green Cemetery in Bremerton.

Staley passed away six years later, on April 5, 2002.

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