Rick Springfield has revealed that he’s recently discovered he suffered brain damage from a fall that took place 25 years ago.
In a new chat with PEOPLE Magazine, the Australian-American rocker revealed that he recently underwent a full-body MRI scan that revealed shocking results stemming from an on-stage fall back in 2000.
While performing in Las Vegas in 2000, the ‘Jessie’s Girl’ singer “fell 25 feet, hit my head and then wood came down and hit my head, and then my head hit the stage again.” At the time, the now-75-year-old rocker thought “I had just broken my wrist” but was surprised by the scan’s other results.
“On the scan I found out I have some brain damage from the fall, so I’m working on trying to repair that.”
Springfield then shared that he recently experimented with ketamine and LSD to see “if it would open a few things in my brain.” His willingness to experiment with unorthodox treatment comes after the death of his father, who “died from not wanting to know”.
The rocker explained: “He thought he had stomach cancer for years and never got it checked out. When he finally collapsed one day at home, they found out it was an ulcer that burst, and he died from the loss of blood. It could have been fixed if he had gotten it checked out.”
“That was a giant message to me: If you want to live long, you have to be prepared for some bad news now and then,” he continued. “I could find out I have terminal cancer tomorrow and be dead in a year, but I can only do all I can do.”
Next week (March 19), Rick Springfield will kick off the ‘I Want My ’80s’ tour with John Waite, Wang Chung, Paul Young and John Cafferty. The extensive North American tour will see them perform over 30 dates between March and August 10 – find out more here.
