🎸 #GeneSimmons , the legendary bassist of KISS, has always avoided alcohol and drugs for a very personal and profound reason: his mother.

A Holocaust survivor, she had endured the horrors of a concentration camp where many members of her family perished. As her only child, Simmons once said:

"I’m her only son. I knew I didn’t have the right to cause my mother more pain. Life had already done enough to her."

One particularly meaningful moment happened during his first major interview with Rolling Stone. Simmons — dressed in his classic “Demon” persona with flashy jewelry, leather pants, seven-inch platform boots, and black nail polish — was trying to impress the journalist.

Suddenly, his mother showed up at the door with enough food to feed an army:

“Soups, veal chops, pancakes, jams, cakes…”

She insisted that he and the journalist — whom she affectionately called “hungry boys” — stop working and eat.

During the whole lunch, she called him by his Hebrew name, Chaim, and told stories about what a good boy he was.

In that moment, the “rock demon” image crumbled:

“The big, bad demon was just a mama’s boy.”

This story reveals the deeply human side of Gene Simmons and sheds light on why he has always chosen to live with discipline and respect — above all, out of love for his mother and the suffering she had already endured.

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