Reporter: Welcome y’all to another edition of Entertainment Tonight Southern Style. I’m Virginia Wolfe and boy do we have a show for you tonight. In the first interview since he was declared innocent, Wolfgang “wolfie” van Halen tells his side of the story. As you all remember, Wolfie was arrested and charged with the murder of 2 of the 3 brothers of the prominent Pigg family, which until recently handled the management of Van Halen, the band started by Wolfie’s father Eddie and now came to include Wolfie as well. We have a clip here from the trial and then live from his top floor “tree” house Wolfgang van Halen.
Cut to Video from trial
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Here with me today is drummer of the popular band Van Halen, Wolfgang Van Halen. Welcome wolfie- may I call you wolfie?
Wolfgang- Yea man it’s all the same anyway.
Reporter- Great, first off, how does it feel to be out of jail, name cleared and back to playing music?
Wolfgang- You have no idea, remember that I was arrested on April 20th, 2008 and because of my *cough* celebrity status *cough* I was deemed a flight risk and sat in jail for the six months of the trial. It is just unbelievable that in this age, prejudices like this could still exist. The judge and jury was entirely composed of Adult Pigs so to be found innocent is a great honor and life on the road with my dad has been great.
Reporter: Wow, if you had the chance today, what would you say to your former Manager, Tre Cool Pig, the convicted killer of his two brothers and the person who testified against you?
Wolfgang: I know many of my fans are upset at this guy and expect me to be also, I’m just not. He’s the one who has to live with the fact that he killed his 2 older brothers who were also involved the apparent scheme to scam bands. So there is nothing I could say or do, that would amount to the heaviness of that. Of course, I’m damn glad the truth came out and he will now spend the rest of his life in prison. Those 3 pigs were my best friends and I will definitely miss the good times we shared but that’s over now.
Reporter: Words to live by, exclusively here on Entertainment Tonight with Wolfgang Van Halen. The evidence did show a video of you visiting the 2 older pigs houses the same day as their deaths, at any time did you feel you were going to be in jail for the rest of your life.
W: Um yeah, especially because of the whole bail issue, it was just a big setup, since Tre had told me to visit his 2 brothers that day and sign-off on the new artwork for the upcoming album. If it wasn’t for his directions I would never have gone there. Luckily Tre’s hoof prints were present and the murder weapon was found.
Reporter: I think we’ve heard enough of the past, when can Forrest Hills expect the release of that new album?
W: I’m hoping 6 months, but realistically a year, the trial set us all back and in prison I wrote a ton of new songs that we now need to record and add to the album. So we in the process of putting together what we feel will be the best album and explain what really happened.
Reporter: That’s the end of this edition of Entertainment Tonight, I’m Virginia Wolfe, remember y’all Stay Positive and Love your Life. Goodnight.
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