Life for the Nowell family changed dramatically that day, and like so many who lose loved ones to addiction, they’ve gone through the roller coaster of emotions associated with Bradley’s death. No one expected it when it came, so it took us all by surprise.” He had an 11-month-old son, and I even helped plan the wedding. But he got clean, and he had just gotten married. The band had been recording the self-titled album (released two months after her brother’s death) in Texas, and they sent him home because he was so strung out. “But at the time, he had been clean almost two months. We had even talked about needing to prepare ourselves for it. “There were times in his life when he was really in the obvious grips of it, just heavily using, and I wouldn’t have been surprised to get a call like that. “He had been battling heroin addiction for four years - in and out of rehab, and he even tried getting clean at home,” she told The Ties That Bind Us during a recent interview. That he died of a heroin overdose a week after marrying his long-time girlfriend and the mother of his 11-month-old son, during a period in his life when addiction seemed to have released him from its murderous talons, only compounded Kellie’s grief. That he passed as his band, Sublime, was coming into its own as one of the most popular purveyors of ska-punk was tragic in and of itself. Her mother’s car was parked in front of the house, and her husband met her as she exited the car to deliver the devastating news - her brother, Bradley Nowell, was dead. May 25, 1996: She pulled into the family garage and knew immediately something was amiss. Twenty-four years later, Kellie Nowell still trembles when she recalls the moment she got the news.
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