Josh Homme spent “seven months in mattress” as he battled a well being concern final 12 months.
Josh Homme was bedridden for seven months
The 52-year-old singer’s group Queens of the Stone Age cancelled the rest of their 2024 performances final August due to the frontman’s undisclosed medical issues and he is now mirrored on the interval, however thinks it was “higher” he was “unwell” whereas the band accomplished their 20-year-long dream of recording at Paris’ Catacombs amid their European tour.
He recalled to Consequence of Sound: “I used to be in a really troublesome bodily spot, and I am actually grateful that I used to be, truly.
“I could not take into consideration the rest however the place we had been. It is higher that I used to be unwell, as a result of I feel if I used to be properly, we’d’ve possibly been extra ‘California’ about it and thought ‘Man, it is so cool to be right here…’ And one thing about that form of sucks.”
Lower than a day later, Josh returned to the US and was sedated for emergency surgical procedure.
He added: “I carried out within the Catacombs, and inside about 20 hours I used to be being sedated and put beneath.
“Then I spent the following seven months in mattress. I had loads of time to assume, you recognize? I used to be instructed I used to be gonna spend 18 months, two years there, so I used to be not excited.”
Happily, by December, Josh was instructed by medical doctors he was going to be OK and he was excited to get again to work.
He mirrored: “I felt like a rodeo bull leaning on the gate. It is like, while you open this f****** gate, I am gonna run. I am gonna run.”
Though the No One Is aware of hitmaker has not made the small print of his sickness public for privateness causes, it wasn’t his first medical scare as a result of in 2023, he revealed he had been recognized with most cancers the 12 months earlier than and had undergone profitable surgical procedure to take away it.
He instructed Revolver journal: “I by no means say it could actually’t get any worse. I by no means say that, and I would not advise it. However I do say it could actually get higher.
“Most cancers is simply the cherry on prime of an attention-grabbing time interval, you recognize? I am extraordinarily grateful that I am going to get by way of this, and I am going to look again at this as one thing that is f****d up — however may have made me higher. I am cool with that. There’s loads of stuff I wish to do. And there is lots of people I wish to try this with.”
