(rocknewsdesk) Tragic Slipknot bassist Paul Gray’s widow has told of her desperate attempts to save him " even though she only discovered he was using drugs again the day before he died.

Gray, who would have celebrated his 39th birthday this week, was found dead in an Iowa hotel room last May following an accidental overdose.

And his wife Brenna, who was pregnant at the time, says she’d saved him from death once in the past " but couldn’t manage it a second time.