Weapons N Roses bassist revealed devastating affect not ingesting water for 12 years had on physique

Warning: This text incorporates dialogue of alcoholism which some readers might discover distressing.

The bassist of fashionable band Weapons N’ Roses opened up up to now in regards to the critical affect not ingesting water for 12 years had on his physique.

Duff McKagan was the longtime rocker on the bass for the band whose members have been recognized for having numerous addictions. And within the Nineties, a really actual well being scare brought about the musician to rethink his habits.

Bakc in 2023, the now-61-year-old beforehand joined the previous Van Halen singer Sammy Harger for his collection, Rock & Roll Street Journey, as they mentioned how the traditional rock and roll life-style took its toll on them.

McKagan opened up extra about his deep fall into habit that acquired so dangerous he ‘simply drank alcohol’ and never ‘any water’ for over a decade.

“I actually didn’t have a glass of water for 12 years,” he clarified.

“My physique was failing, my hair was falling out.”

The bassist admitted that by the point he was 28 years outdated, he thought he would make it to 30 ‘and that’s going to be it’.

And on the time, he stated he was ‘okay’ with the ‘reside quick, die younger’ mindset. However one morning he wakened with what he thought was ‘some sharp fuel pains’ solely to seek out it was far more sinister.

“My pancreas had burst,” he stated. “That was my backside line.”

His organ reportedly swelled to the dimensions of a rugby ball and rupturing. Digestive enzymes then leaked into his physique and brought about third-degree vomit, with the ache so dangerous he claimed he’d begged the surgeon to kill him.

McKagan ultimately acquired his pancreas eliminated because of this, and recalled how his mum with Parkinson’s visited him in hospital whereas in a wheelchair, crying as her youngest son was laying with ‘tubes popping out of me’.

“And I’d see myself from above the mattress,” he recalled. “And I’m like, ‘The order of issues is incorrect right here man. I must be taking good care of her.’

“And ‘I f**ked up and I’m sorry’, and I’d make it higher.”

He stated that when he was discharged, he was provided rehab, however he knew already he ‘was executed’, and his life ‘modified 180 levels from that second to now’.

Talking to BBC’s Hardtalk programme beforehand, McKagan described it as a ‘actual, actual wake-up name’ and he ended up ‘ingesting water for the primary time’, beginning his sobriety journey.

“I believed, if nothing else, I’ll make it higher for my Mother. I’ll attempt to rise to the event of being a great son. That is actually what began my complete upward swing,” he added.

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