Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil, who revealed earlier this month that he suffered a stroke at Christmas, now says that he is skilled a number of related medical occasions.
Neil made the revelations throughout an interview with SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, telling Trunk that he’d suffered 4 strokes all through the years.
“Two of ’em I did not even know I had,” says Neil. “One in every of ’em was a mini stroke that occurred, and I simply misplaced feeling in my hand. And that was it. And I obtained over that fairly shortly. However then this final one, it was a giant one.”
Neil’s most up-to-date assault occurred when Neil was at residence on Christmas night time, and briefly left the frontman with out the usage of his legs. This led the band to postpone their deliberate Las Vegas residency for March and April, however Neil recovered sufficiently to carry out on the rescheduled dates, which started earlier this month.
“I went from a wheelchair to a walker to a cane,” Neil tells Trunk. “I can stroll now, however for 5 months it was simply on and off, not figuring out what’s gonna occur. And the physician stated that I in all probability would not be on stage once more. And I used to be, like, ‘No, man. I can not do this.’
“And so I simply tried. I labored my butt off to get again in form to go on stage. And I used to be actually unhappy to need to cancel these reveals, however I simply wasn’t prepared but. I wasn’t able to be again on stage but. It was actually unhappy, however it’s actually value it now, ‘trigger I can get on stage and sing and all that good things.”
Neil, who says that docs found a blood clot that ran from one among his legs into his mind and have been in a position to calculate the variety of strokes he’d skilled by inspecting the scarring on his mind, goes on to element his physiotherapy routine.
“At first, I went to a spot for 10 days in Nashville, and so they labored with me on the very starting to get again the reminiscence stuff that I’ve. After which I simply employed a bodily therapist to go to my home on daily basis. And he was a bodily therapist that does soccer gamers and stuff like that.
“So he had me working and doing the issues on the ladder, the ladder on the ground, working these forwards and backwards, doing massages, my hand, my arm. However he introduced all of it again. He obtained me by means of all this.”
Mötley Crüe’s residency at Dolby Dwell at Park MGM started on September 12 and continues till October 3.
Motley Crue Las Vegas Residency 2025 – remaining dates
Sep 26: Dolby Dwell at Park MGM, Las Vegas, NV
Sep 27: Dolby Dwell at Park MGM, Las Vegas, NV
Oct 01: Dolby Dwell at Park MGM, Las Vegas, NV
Oct 03: Dolby Dwell at Park MGM, Las Vegas, NV