Gene Simmons thinks there’s more to the story behind the death of KISS co-founding member Ace Frehley.

Frehley died in October at age 74, after falling down the stairs in his Morristown, NJ home. His death was ruled accidental, stemming from blunt force trauma to his head from the fall. But Simmons told the New York Post, “Falling down the stairs—I’m not a doctor—doesn’t kill you.” The classic rock icon suggested “there may have been other issues” related to Frehley’s death.

Frehley was “in and out of bad decisions,” Simmons said, and “refused [advice] from people that cared about him, including yours truly, to try to change his lifestyle.” Simmons put it more bluntly when he concluded, “You reap what you shall sow, unfortunately.”

Simmons made his comments the day before the band was

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