Vince Neil , lead singer of Mötley Crüe , revealed that he actually suffered three strokes, not just one as previously reported. At the time, the band announced that the singer needed a "medical procedure" and informed that his residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM in Sin City, scheduled to take place from March 28 to April 19 of this year, had been postponed to September.
In a new interview with Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, Vince Neil explained that he suffered a stroke last December [transcript via Blabbermouth ].
“It was Christmas Eve and I went to sleep. I woke up and couldn’t get out of bed. I was like, ‘What’s happening?’ And my left leg wasn’t working, and my left arm wasn’t working. So, I needed help getting out of bed. I couldn’t get up to get comfortable in bed. And I needed help, slowly but surely, the feeling returned to my legs. And I had to relearn how to walk.”
He confessed: “I went from a wheelchair to a walker, to a cane and… now I can walk, but for five months it was only occasionally, without knowing what would happen. And the doctor said I probably wouldn't be able to go back on stage. And I was like, 'No, man. I can't do this.' And then I just tried. I pushed myself really hard to get back in shape and get on stage. And I was very sad to have to cancel those shows, but I still wasn't ready. I still wasn't ready to go back on stage. It was very sad, but now it's so worth it, because I can go on stage and sing and all those good things.”
Vince Neil reveals how he discovered he had a stroke.
Next, Vince recounted how he discovered he had suffered a stroke: “Well, Rain [Vince's girlfriend at the time] has an aunt who's a nurse, and she called her aunt and said, 'This is what's happening to Vince,' and her aunt said, 'He had a stroke.' It was too late to go to the hospital because you have to get there in, like, 12 hours or something. And I thought, 'Oh, this will pass. It will pass'... I thought, 'Oh, well, it'll come back soon.' But it didn't. Yeah, that was the hard part. So, I went to the hospital. They said I had a stroke and said, 'We can't do anything for you now because you've already had it and it's past that time.' They gave you a medication—which prevents you from going numb on the side of your body.”
The vocalist revealed that he discovered with doctors that, in fact, “I’ve had four strokes over the years. Two of them I didn’t even know I had. One of them was a mini-stroke that happened and I simply lost feeling in my hand. And that was it. And I recovered pretty quickly. But this last one was a big one,” he said.
Regarding the cause of the stroke, Vince recounted: “Well, they said I had a blood clot in my leg that traveled up to my brain. They showed me… I called a neurologist, they took X-rays and everything, and, lo and behold, I had scarring in my brain. And they said, ‘Look, that’s where you had the stroke.’”
Neil said his father “died of a stroke” in March 2021: “I moved him to Nashville, right down the street from my house. And he was very unwell. He couldn’t speak. It was very sad. And he needed help, a motorized wheelchair and other things. He fought, but the stroke just took him to bed.”
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