The 80s icon Rick Springfield is wrapped around nasty discoveries.
The 75-year-old singer of “Jesse's Girl” recently discovered that she had suffered brain damage from the fall on stage 25 years ago. It was an astonishing find from a Prenubo full-body MRI scan.
“I fell 25 feet, bumped into my head, a tree descended and smashed my head, and my head hit the stage again,” Springfield said. I told people About the 2000 incident at the Las Vegas Show.
“I thought I had just broken my wrist, but the scans showed I had brain damage since the fall, so I'm trying to fix it.”
Springfield said many people “want to know what's wrong with them,” but he believes knowledge is power when it comes to your health. He is a lesson he learned from his father.
“My father passed away from something he didn't want to know,” he says. “I thought he had been suffering from stomach cancer for years so I never checked out. When he finally collapsed on the day he was home, they found out it was a ruptured ulcer and he died of blood loss. If he checked it out, it might have been fixed.”
“It was a big message for me. If you want to live longer, you have to prepare for bad news from time to time,” he continued. “I know I have terminal cancer tomorrow and I'm dying in a year, but I can only do what I can.”
Realizing that “I'm the same age as the old man,” Springfield works out every day and maintains shape by eating mostly Pescatarian food. He also reduced his alcohol intake two years ago.
“I was drinking quite a bit. As I get older, it's natural to drop everything,” he said. “When I'm on stage, I drink a few drinks of vodka or something, but I don't drink it any other time.”
Springfield experimented with ketamine and LSD as a treatment for his depression.
“I wanted to see it [ketamine would] It opens up a few things to my brain,” he says. “I did it as long as it was proposed, and I wasn't a huge fan. It made me feel heavy and mechanical.”
As for “microdoshing” acid, “it was actually a bit good,” he said. “I haven't done it since I was in my 20s, but it was very expensive. I'm not going to push drugs to anyone, but I don't hate helping me become a happy and better person.”
He works actively to live a long life, but Springfield is realistic that he can only do so much – and that death is inevitable.
“That's not a death wish no matter how stretches you stretch,” he said. “But it's important to be aware of that. I think it's better to die than before.
“I can only wear party dresses,” he added.
