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Claude Lemieux Reportedly Relapsed Into Sex Addiction Before His Death

Brendan Lemieux told police his father’s relapse into sex addiction followed more than a decade of sobriety before he died by suicide, newly released footage shows.

  • Police body camera footage from May 28 captured Brendan Lemieux telling officers his father, NHL legend Claude Lemieux, relapsed into sex addiction prior to his suicide, naming the specific nature of what had been publicly described only as a broader sobriety setback.
  • Deborah Lemieux discovered Claude was no longer sober around 10:30 p.m. on May 27 and confronted him directly, as Brendan described months of his father 'lashing out' and 'not being nice to people' before the situation spiraled completely.
  • In his statement to investigators, Brendan clarified that 'his most sober thing is sex addiction versus alcohol' and stated he did not know whether Claude had been drinking that night; hours after his mother told Claude to 'get out,' Brendan found him dead at the family's Lake Park furniture business.
  • The revelation arrives nearly two months after Claude's death became public, filling a gap that had fueled speculation, while Brendan criticized media outlets for running intimate details of his father's final hours, with some accounts he claimed were fabricated.
  • Claude Lemieux was a four-time Stanley Cup champion who played 1,215 NHL games across 21 seasons; the family donated his brain to Boston University's CTE Center for research into head trauma, though friends described him as struggling with depression and strained family ties in his final months.
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