Prince’s Bandmate Says Singer ‘Forgot’ He Invited Him to Visit Before Death: ‘Something Was Wrong’

Nearly a decade after Prince’s death, his former bandmate Brownmark is opening up about the music legend’s final days.

Brownmark, whose real name is Mark Brown, told Page Six in an interview published on Thursday, April 16, that he “knew something was wrong” before Prince died at the age of 57 in 2016.

He added that “something was not right” with Prince’s “memory and his behavior.”

While Brownmark, 64, and the “Little Red Corvette” singer had not been in touch for years, Jim Lundstrom, an employee at Prince’s Paisley Park studio, called and told him the Grammy winner might reach out to him soon.

Brownmark recalled Lundstrom telling him that Prince wouldn’t “stop talking about” the former Revolution bassist.

“He says, ‘Mark, I have a feeling that [Prince is] going to get in touch with you,” Brownmark remembered Lundstrom saying.

It wasn’t long before Prince contacted him and the two made plans to meet up. However, Brownmark said that the “Purple Rain” artist “forgot that he brought me there.”

Brownmark recalled sitting in his hotel for days, waiting for Prince, before he eventually ran into drummer John Blackwell, Jr. who had worked with Prince before, and got in touch with him.

It was when Brownmark eventually arrived at Paisley Park that alarm bells started going off.

“That’s when I knew something was wrong,” he told the outlet. “Something was not right with his memory and his behavior.”

Prince’s opioid addiction is what Brownmark believes caused his memory issues.

“Man, [pills] just clouds your memory. And I think that’s what was happening with him because he was heavily relying upon opioids for his pain, for his hip,” Brownmark explained. “He ain’t gonna let nobody see him sweat. He [wasn’t] going to tell anybody.”

Prince died in an elevator at Paisley Park one day before he was scheduled to meet with an addiction specialist.