Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oliver Sykes into a severe state of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic, but found refuge with monks in Brazil.
The Sun 's Bizarre column about the difficult period, "For a while I just went to a very dark place, a place I'd never been before, but it was also the beginning of something very beautiful, finding myself again."
“I think everyone experienced this on some level during isolation. Even the most positive people couldn’t hide the fact that these are very dark times,” he continues. “For me, it was depression, for sure, but that worst kind of depression where you’re not feeling sad, but you’re not feeling anything. You just completely lose touch with your own emotions.”
The artist, who is married to Brazilian model Alissa Salls , reveals that the monastery where he and his partner sought refuge is near the home of Salls' family, who live in Taubaté, in the interior of São Paulo state. "For most of the month we lived in an ashram, without all our devices and disconnected, and basically lived as if we were Hare Krishnas for a month."
“We wake up at five in the morning and pray to Krishna and chant and dance, just to connect with who we are,” he recalls. “And these people are the happiest people in the world, these monks, you go and meet them and they are the most positive and spiritual people, and I thought, ‘I want some of that. I want to see what it’s like.’”
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