According to Janie, she met Steve after a show (Claims say either Arizona or Florida) during the Hysteria tour. Janie said that the two were together for 16 months at the time of Steve's death. Unfortunately, this time frame doesn't add up, as the tour ended in 1988. It would have had to have ended in 1989 for Janie's story to work.
Lorelei, Steve's ex-fiance, has said that the two met in a treatment center. It is well known that Janie had her own addiction struggles.
Janie was the one who found Steve dead in his living room. She describes the scene in a graphic matter for a tabloid magazine. Steve's parents did engage in a bit of a battle with Janie after Steve's passing. Malvin Mortimer has said that a couple of Janie's friends had took a few of Steve's guitars and "were trying to sell them to a guitar shop, two days after he died."
Phil Collen has referred to Janie as a "Psycho B*tch". Regardless of Janie's downfalls or struggles, the one thing that should not be doubted is her love for Steve. Rather their relationship is judged as healthy or not, the two were living together, had met each other's parents, and were planning on getting married. Janie, as the rest of us, was devastated by Steve's loss.
Janie died, fifteen years after Steve, at 3 pm on Friday, 2/24/06, at Hospice of Palm Beach County.