"If I have any regrets, my hand to God, it's that I sometimes — and I think we all go through this sometimes — wish we were smarter and better at trying to help Ace and Peter have better lives," Simmons, 76, said, per People magazine.
“I wish I would have practiced more tough love and been more in the face of people that we cared about,” Simmons admitted. "Tough love is a good idea in my opinion, with your children, with the people you love, with the people you care about, with the people you work with. It's not going to be a popular thing or you're going to argue about it, but in the long run you're going to be helping that person hopefully change their life."
Simmons has been vocal about his lifelong decision to abstain from drugs and alcohol. In a 2013 interview with Rolling Stone, he admitted he was okay with being labeled "the bad guy" in the dismissals of his original bandmates due to their drug and alcohol fueled behavior.
“Ace and Peter have had a lifetime of being losers,” Simmons said at the time. “And not just with drugs and alcohol. They're losers because of wrong decisions. You sleep in the bed you make. How many chances in life do you get? They were in and out of the band three different times. Why should they get another chance?"
Ace Frehley Talked About His Past Drug Use 9 Months Before His Death
Frehley looked back on his wild life in a January 2025 interview with Guitar Player. He told the outlet that he was never under the influence when it came time to record in the studio.
Of the band’s infamous 1979 appearance on Tom Snyder’s The Tomorrow Show, Frehley explained why he and Criss cracked jokes and cackled as Simmons appeared visibly annoyed.
Criss told NJ.com he quit drugs in 1984. Frehley got sober two decades later. In a 2020 interview with Loudwire, Frehley confirmed he had been sober for 14 years and maintained his sobriety with a support system and “thousands of AA meetings.”
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