Overview

• Taime Downe made his first public comments on May 30 during SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation interview, saying he “blames alcohol and pills” for Kimberly Burch’s March fall.
• Burch, 56, went overboard from Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas about 20 miles off Freeport, Bahamas on March 2; her body has not been recovered.
• Sources reported a heated argument in the couple’s cabin and security footage allegedly showed Burch climbing the ship’s railing moments before the fall.
• The U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Bahamas Defense Force launched and later suspended search operations after several hours of scanning the waters.
• Faster Pussycat resumed its U.S. tour on May 30 with supporting acts such as Vain and Supersuckers, which Downe says has been essential to coping with his grief.