Five Finger Death Punch’s Chris Kael previously opened up about his past drug issues and now he has spoken of them even further during an interview with KLAQ at the Las Rageous Festival in Las Vegas, NV. You can watch the full chat, and read some transcriptions below:
Kael said the following:
“I was going through about an eight-ball of cocaine a week. That got to be the biggest problem for me. That and depression, the two things, were not good. I didn’t realize it until I got into rehab that I was self-medicating with cocaine to get my dopamine levels up to fight the depression. I never even thought about that. And then when you come off it, you crash hard.”
He went on to say he is “one line away from falling off the wagon” and that “every day is a struggle to get things through,” though he did reveal that “it’s much better now.”
He also added that it was hard when he would have time off tour:
“The downtime was real rough for me, because, hell, I’d been off since December of last year; we got off the road in December. So normally, I was bartending, I had an everyday job, something to do, going to the gym, this and this. And when I got home from this [last tour], I was, like, ‘What do I do? Do I wanna try to figure out something to do? Or do I wanna spend eight hours doing blow and watching Netflix? I’m gonna do blow and watch Netflix. I don’t wanna figure out what to do.’ So I really got into that thing. And it just got to a point where I felt like the real me was getting eaten up by the character that I portrayed on stage — the ‘He-Man,’ fucking… that guy.”
Kael also talked a bit about how Ivan Moody had to publicly battle his addiction while his was silent:
“Ivan was going through his thing, and me, no one really knew, I was the quiet one that was kind of doing things on the side. That was one of the things that was eating away at me too — my guy had a huge problem, and here I am, a quiet problem. It hit me hard when I got off the road last time. Going home was always hard anyway, ’cause you’ve got so much stimulation out on the road, and then you come home and you’re, like, ‘Wait a minute? I’ve gotta take out the trash? That’s the biggest part of my job now?’”
[via Blabbermouth]
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