Rock Legend Makes Major Revelation About His Health
Rick Springfield is synonymous with the 1980s. His hit song Jessie's Girl is a classic. And, at age 75, he's still touring.
But now the iconic rocker is sharing revelations about his health.
On July 10, he appeared on the Today Show and revealed that he suffered "lasting damage" to his brain when he fell during a concert in Las Vegas 25 years ago.
“I was doing the show in Vegas, and I fell actually 25 feet to a steel stage," the rocker said on the show.
He revealed that he was supposed to "be suspended from a beam on a gravity-fed harness system," but “it wasn’t tied off,” so he "slammed (onto the stage), and then the beam hit me on the head and then my head hit the (stage) again.”
At the time, doctors thought he had just broken his wrist, but he recently underwent an MRI.
That's when they found "brain damage and scarring," according to Springfield.
Springfield explained to TODAY that he underwent the MRI as a precautionary measure.
“My dad died from not wanting to know,” Springfield said on the show. “He thought he had stomach cancer for years and never got it checked out. When he finally collapsed one day at home, they found out it was an ulcer that burst, and he died from the loss of blood. It could have been fixed if he had gotten it checked out.”
Springfield is touring, and the New York Post asked him to respond to people who call him a "one-hit wonder."
“I’d say you obviously weren’t listening in the eighties,” Springfield told the site. “There was a point where Elton John and I were tied for the most top 20 songs of the eighties…which is a funny thing to say. Elton has been following me all my career.”
The tour starts July 11 in New Jersey, according to the Post.
"Going onstage is my Prozac and all my worries don’t come onstage with me," Springfield told the Post.
It’s a high you can’t get any other way unless you do acid or drink heavily and that has a real downside. I love playing live. I always say I get paid to travel. I play for free."
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