Getarry escape player Mike Campbell He insisted on his “clear conscience” on the band’s leader Tom Betty‘s 2017 death from An overdose of accidental drugs.

“I do not torture myself [over Petty’s death]Campbell, 75, said, said, Guitar In an interview published on Tuesday 11 March.

The death of my house at the age of 66 was sent a shock waves across the rock community, especially after the criminal investigative judge report that a mixture of opiates – including fentanel and oxycodone – contributed to his system that contributed to “mixed mixed toxicity”. The legend of the rocks went through periods of drug use throughout his life, but it is a clean famous in 1999 when his future wife was future, Dana YorkHe persuaded him to go to rehabilitation.

In his new interview, Campbell explained that while Betti admitted, he was no longer sober near the end of his life, he felt that it was impossible to reach his colleague for a long time.

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“With Tom was like,” your private life is for you, and I have me. I can see what you are doing, but your respect for you, I will trust that you will do the right thing. “If you need me, call me,” remember. “I could have gone to him and said:” Hey, you have to cut this matter, which I did once to the manager. But the thing with Tom was, you can say that and that he will only look at you, but I am Tom Betty. I will do what I want. I get out of my face. “

Campbell suggested that “aspects of [Petty’s] The character “has always made it difficult to get close to the musician who worked with him for more than 40 years.

It was scary, but there was love there. I think one of the reasons we stayed together is because we kept our private life separate. We haven’t organized much of the tour. “

It was the last time the couple worked together just one week before the death of my home, when they concluded Forty anniversary A tour of Hollywood Bowl in September 2017.

When Campbell was pressed on the reason not to “enter it [Petty’s] The musician replied, “The face” about his noticeable retreat: “I do not torture myself. A clear awareness that Tom knew that I knew, and Tom knew that I did not break his fast and enter into his face.”

The guitarist added that there is an “invisible understanding” between him and my home about their personal lives.

“I did not confront him, to know what I felt about it,” Campbell said. As I said, there were no second ideas or reservations about going out on a tour. In fact, the last conversation I had with Tom on this topic, I said: “Are you sure that you want to do this? Are you up to her? He said, “I do not stay at home. I go out. I want to do it. If I have to be on a wheelchair, I will do that. I said,“ Well, what? ”He said,“ Well, when the tour ends, I will go to happen [hip] surgery. We will write more songs, and we will make another record. This was the plan. “

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Campbell continued: “It was a kind of work as usual. I know that Tony [Dimitriades]Our manager spoke to him and gave him options like, “We can postpone this. You can get surgery now. Tom said,“ I need to be there. I want to play with the band, and we will do that. I will be fine. So I have no second ideas on this topic. I do not like myself like this. I miss them – the same thing with [Howie Epstein, the Heartbreakers’ bassist, who died at 47 in 2003] – But I did everything I can. “

Since the death of my home in 2017, Campbell and the crowded house Nile Vin I joined the Fleetwood Mac as alternatives to Lindsey Buckingham the next The departure of the last guitarist From the group. Campbell wrote notes on his career with Petty called the heartOut of Tuesday, March 18th.