Throughout the early 1990s, Poison became one of the biggest glam metal bands in the world, recording other hit albums, such as the multi-platinum selling, Open Up and Say...Ahh!. However, their lives were characterized by the escalating tension between Bret Michaels and DeVille that derived from their mutual drug use, which came to a head during their 1990 "Flesh and Blood" tour. Also cited is the spectacle of DeVille's behavior during the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. After getting into a fistfight with Bret Michaels, DeVille left the band, and descended further into addiction, as did Bret Michaels, who, one night after partying, crashed his Ferrari into a telephone pole, incurring serious injury, including broken ribs, a disfigured nose, and lost teeth.
