Thursday 18 August 2022 12:04 AM Mark Hoppus contemplated suicide after his cancer diagnosis sent him into a ... trends now
Mark Hoppus revealed on Wednesday that the depression he suffered after being diagnosed with cancer robbed him of his will to live.
The 50-year-old Blink-182 bassist recalled one time after his lymphoma diagnosis when he was 'in the living room crying' as he told his wife Skye, 'I don’t know if I can do this,' according to a new interview with People.
But the darkest depths of the musician's depression have since receded, and he has been getting back into the swing of his old life since doctors declared him cancer-free in September 2021.
Dark days: Mark Hoppus, 50, revealed in an interview with People from Wednesday that he had contemplated suicide at the darkest parts of his cancer journey; seen in November 2021
Hoppus explained just how 'dark' his thoughts had gotten after making his tearful confession to his wife.
'She was like, "Well, what are you going to do, kill yourself?" And that’s exactly what I was thinking. It was pretty dark,' he said.
But he found his wife's blunt question to be a 'total snap-out-of-it moment' that helped distance himself from the negative thoughts.
'I was like, "What a s****y thing to say." But also, what a kind thing to say, like, "Snap out of it, you f***ing 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.'
Saying it out loud: Hoppus recalled tearfully confessing 'I don't know if I can do this' to his wife Skye, who asked, 'Well, what are you going to do, kill yourself?'
Wakeup call: He found his wife's blunt question to be a 'snap-out-of-it moment.' 'I was like, "What a s****y thing to say." But also, what a
