Metal Anarchy

Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour) recently appeared on Viceland‘s “The Therapist,” a show where psychologist Dr. Siri Sat Sam Singh interviews musicians to “discover what lies beneath their public personas.” During the show, which can be seen HERE, Taylor opened up on a variety of past traumas including his past suicide attempt and being sexually assaulted at a young age. You can see what he had to say about those shocking situations below.

On his suicide attempt:

“I only really seriously attempted suicide once. I took a bunch of pills at my grandmother’s house and just basically laid on the floor. And my ex-girlfriend’s mom stopped and my grandmother’s house outta nowhere to check on me, to see how I was—found me. An hour later I’m drinking ipecac and throwing up into a bucket.”

“The girlfriend whose mother found me had just broken up with me. There was just something about her that I really connected with, but when that went away, a lot of me went with it. I felt so empty that I had a hard time feeling anything other than grave depression. And it was the one time I really was just like ‘I can’t handle this.’”

“It was definitely one of my rock bottoms. So my grandmother came and picked me up. My grandmother, who has been the one person in my life. She came and picked me up and she was so disappointed.”

“I could see it on her, you know? It was almost like a race of emotion. Just disappointed, she was glad I was okay, but she was so mad. That killed me and it hurt so much that I didn’t—like it almost put me over again that I immediately just said ok, it’s not… it’s not something you come back from.”

On sexual assault:

“I was raped by someone in the neighborhood. I didn’t tell anybody for a long time because he threatened to hurt me, threatened to hurt my mom.”

He also added:

“Where we were living at the time—we moved around a lot so obviously I had to make friends quickly. There was really only one person to hang out with, to play with and he was this sixteen-year-old kid.

And he would invite me over to his house to play music and one day it became something else and I didn’t tell anybody for a long time because he threatened to hurt me, threatened to hurt my mom. He ended up burning his house down. They fled in the night. It was kind of crazy.”

[via The PRP]