Patty Smyth Regrets Declining Eddie Van Halen’s Invitation To Join VAN HALEN After David Lee Roth Left

Eddie Van Halen has invited Patty Smyth (Scandal) to join the band after David Lee Roth left.

In a chat with Stereogum. , Smyth talked about the reason she declined the invitation to join Van Halen:

“They were heavy drinkers. I don’t drink. I never saw myself living in L.A. I was, like, ‘I’m from New York. We don’t move to L.A.’

“It’s all semantics because if [Eddie] had said to me, ‘Let’s make a record,’ then I would have said yes to that. But joining the band — to me then, ‘Oh god, they fight all the time, him and his brother, and I don’t want to get into a volatile situation.’

And I was probably heavily hormoned out because I was eight months pregnant, so there was a state of mind that I was in of how I need to take care of myself.

But I regretted turning him down. For a long time, I regretted it. When you start to have regrets, I was, like, ‘Oh, man. I would’ve made so much money.’