Sammy Hagar has apologised for showing the “dark side” to his late bandmate Eddie Van Halen in his autobiography.The rocker detailed Van Halen’s drinking habits and his strained relationship with his former bandmate in his 2011 memoir Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock.However, Hagar says that if he was writing it now he would instead focus on Van Halen’s “genius” and the pair’s close friendship.He told Brazil’s ‘Inside With Paulo Baron’ that “because of the untimely and tragic death of Eddie Van Halen, I apologise from the bottom of my heart for exposing his dark side to where I don’t think anyone wants to hear that now, and, unfortunately, it’s in the book.”He said: “And it’s true, it’s all true.
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