Mark Hoppus did not take the breaking of Blink-182 lightly.
The 53-year-old musician revealed in his new memories, “Fahrenheit-182”, who had suicidal thoughts when the band broke in 2005.
“When Blink collapsed, I lost everything. I lost my direction, I lost my trust, I lost my sense of me,” Hoppus wrote to People.
“I didn’t know what I was supposed to do or who was supposed to be. I listened to one of our songs in a store and had to leave,” he recalled. “I sank lower.
After about 10 years as a group, guitarist Tom Delonge left Blink-182 on the increase in tensions with Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker.
The division caused the hopper to be spiral and contemplate the whistle its own life, but it is possible that it shows the issues in its own hands to help itself.
“I started talking to a psychiatrist who put me on medications, which helped a lot,” he shared. “It allowed me to breathe. It allowed me space in my head saying:” You are being AD – K, Mark. Knock it down. “
While Delonge formed his own band called Angels & Airwaves, Hoppus and Barker created +44. But in 2009, Blink-182 gathered and the trio launched his album “Neighborhood” two years later.
Delonge left the band for the second time in 2015, but joined again in 2023.
In his memoirs, Hoppus also opened over his childhood before fame and his public battle against cancer in 2021.
The singer of “all small things” said previously that he contemplated the suicide after he was diagnosed with stage 4.
“I was crying and I told my wife in our living room [Skye Hoppus]”I don’t know if I can do this,” he told People in 2022. “She said:” Well, what are you going to do, kill you? “And that is exactly what I was thinking. It was quite dark.”
Hoppus said his wife helped him overcome his dark thoughts at that time. It was possible to announce that he was free of cancer in September 2021.
Talking to The Guardian while promoting his memoirs, Hoppus recalled that “he really thought he was going to die” his difficult chemotherapy treatment lasted.
“And, in a way, he was absolutely very liberating,” he admitted. “I will spend my whole hypervigilant life, thinking: What is the sausage that could happen? And, oh, is here now, I am dealing with that and still stinks.”
“The physical pain and the exhaustion of chemotherapy, mixed with steroids and all other drugs, simply crushed me for months,” Hoppus continued, and added that the battle for cancer actually “cured” his friendship with Delonge.
“He brought friends that he had in years. From the first day, [DeLonge] It was like: ‘What do you need? I’m there, “Hoppus recalled.” In that friendship and the love and support of the people around me, I thought: Do you know what? I have had a rather impressive life. “
Blink-182 announced on Tuesday its 2025 tour in the United States “Missionary Impossible”.
