Blink-182 frontman Mark Hoppus is opening up about his battle with cancer in 2021.
It can be hard to open up about the struggles you face in your life publicly, and the stress of being vulnerable must be even harder for celebrities who have millions of people waiting to judge you for your every move. The more celebrities share about the rough times in their life, the more normalized talking about these situations can be.
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Mark Hoppus is opening up about his battle with cancer in 2021.
“The chemotherapy was brutal,” Mark told People . “I had no energy and ended up being on the couch just trying to get through the day,” he says. “I had the worst brain fog. We were sitting at dinner with friends that we’ve known for years, and I’m looking at the husband across the table, thinking to myself, ‘I can’t remember your first name.’ And it was like that all the time. I still feel it once every couple days — I’ll forget a word — but it’s much better.”
Mark shared that at the worst of it, his thoughts got “dark.”
“I was in our living room crying and telling my wife, ‘I don’t know if I can do this,'” Mark recalled. “She was like, ‘Well, what are you going to do, kill yourself?’ And that’s exactly what I was thinking. It was pretty dark.”
Mark said that his wife’s no-nonsense attitude was what helped him snap out of it.
“It was a total snap-out-of-it moment,” Mark said . “I was like, ‘What a[expletive] thing to say.’ But also, what a kind thing to say, like, ‘Snap out of it, you [expletive] baby. You have a beatable form of cancer. It’s going to suck to get there, but get there.’ I had to do the work.”
Mark went on to praise his wife of 22 years for her support throughout the fight.
“She researched all the best foods, like, ‘This helps with the nausea, and this helps with the dehydration, and this helps with the recovery,'” he said. “My wife was awesome from day one.”
Mark announced he was cancer-free in September of 2021.
If you or someone you know needs help, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
h/t: People
