After suffering a stroke, iconic rocker Vince Neil had to “learn to walk again.”
In order for the now 64-year-old lead singer to undergo a “medical procedure,” Mötley Crüe was forced to postpone their Las Vegas residency in March. And confirming he fell seriously ill in 2024 the day after Christmas, Neil told the Last Vegas Review-Journal “I had a stroke. My whole left side went out.”
Telling the the publication he went to bed on Christmas night feeling fine but his “health scare” began in his sleep and he needed months of physical therapy to get back on his feet, Vince explained:
“I had to learn to walk again, and that was tough. The doctors said they didn’t think I’d be able to go back on stage again. I go, ‘No, no, I’m gonna do it. Watch and see.’” “Mötley canceled the first part of the (residency) so I could get better.” “I went from people carrying me to the bathroom, because I couldn’t walk myself, finally to a wheelchair. I graduated to a walker, and then I had a cane. Now I don’t need anything. But it’s like a full-time job getting back to where you feel good again.” “It takes a while to get your brain to start moving your legs, for them to do what your brain wants to do. You try to walk but it doesn’t come out right.”
Because the Los Angeles-born musician’s voice was not affected, the singer’s now confident about being back on stage, and speaking before the group finally kicked off their run of Las Vegas shows on Friday night (9.12) he said: “It’s been tough, but I’m back, I’m 90-95-percent to where I was before, and it’s going to be great,” and teasing the set list for the shows is “extensive, with some deep cuts, but the songs that fans want to hear,” he added “It takes you through the full Mötley Crüe lifestyle. I am going to push through the best I can.”
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Author: Al Denté
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