Earlier this month, Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil revealed that he suffered a stroke final Christmas, resulting in the band suspending its deliberate Las Vegas residency. Now, the veteran rocker has disclosed that he truly had three different strokes main as much as the “massive one.”
Mötley Crüe are at the moment within the midst of the rescheduled residency at Dolby Stay at Park MGM, working by means of an October third present (tickets accessible right here). The concert events had been initially slated to happen this previous spring, however had been postponed because of an at-the-time undisclosed medical challenge affecting Neil.
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In his interview with the Las Vegas-Evaluate Journal a pair weeks in the past, Neil revealed, “I had a stroke. My entire left aspect went out… I needed to be taught to stroll once more, and that was powerful. The docs mentioned they didn’t assume I’d be capable to return on stage once more.”
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In a brand new dialog with SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), Neil shared extra particulars about his medical battle, saying he might have recovered rather a lot sooner had he caught the “massive” stroke sooner.
“It was Christmas evening, and I went to sleep,” recalled Neil. “I awakened and I couldn’t get off the bed. I’m, like, ‘What’s occurring?’ And my left leg wouldn’t work, and my left arm wouldn’t work. So I needed to get assist off the bed. I couldn’t push myself as much as get myself snug in mattress. And I needed to have assist. And slowly however absolutely, the feeling got here again in my legs.”
He continued, “[My then-girlfriend] Rain has an aunt who’s a nurse, and he or she known as her aunt, and he or she mentioned, ‘That is what’s occurring with Vince,’ and [her aunt] goes, ‘He’s had a stroke.’ And by then it was simply too late to go to the hospital as a result of it’s a must to get [there] inside, like, 12 hours or one thing. And I used to be simply type of, like, ‘Oh, it’s gonna go away. It’s gonna go away.’ … I assumed, ‘Oh, properly, it’ll come again in a little bit bit.’ But it surely didn’t. Yeah, that was the exhausting half. Then I went to the hospital. They mentioned I had a stroke, they usually go, ‘We are able to’t do something for you now since you’ve already had it and also you’ve gone previous that point’ the place they provide you this drug — it makes it so that you’re not numb on the aspect.”
As for what induced the stroke, Neil defined, “Properly, they mentioned that I had a blood clot in my leg that ran up by means of to my mind. They usually confirmed me — I had a neurologist come out they usually took x-rays and stuff, and also you see I had scars in my mind. [And they said], ‘See that’s the place you had a stroke.’”
The singer additionally came upon that he’s truly had “4 strokes all through the years. Two of ’em I didn’t even know I had. Considered one of ’em was a mini stroke that occurred and I simply misplaced feeling in my hand. And that was it. And I bought over that fairly shortly. However then this final one, it was an enormous one.”
Requested by Trunk about how docs knew he had 4 strokes, Neil responded, “As a result of they might see it in your mind. It’s scarred proper across the similar spot. I had 4 scars in my mind, and the neurologist mentioned these are all strokes.”
Neil, who’s father died of a stroke in 2021, went by means of months of bodily remedy to get again onstage. He carried out a solo present in early August, and is at the moment rocking at “95 %” with Mötley Crüe as they proceed their Vegas residency. “There’s issues that I can’t do on stage nonetheless,” he famous. “It’s exhausting to run backwards and forwards on that stage. That stage is so big. However I’m getting used to it.”
See a clip from Vince Neil’s interview with Eddie Trunk beneath.
#ICYMI on #TrunkNation – @thevinceneil was in studio w/@eddietrunk speaking concerning the @MotleyCrue residency following struggling a stroke & he revealed that he is truly had 4 strokes thus far. Go hear the complete interview now on the @SIRIUSXM app:https://t.co/kIjdZTAXL7 pic.twitter.com/n4sChYsj7U
— Trunk Nation on SXM Faction Discuss Channel 103 (@TrunkNationSXM) September 25, 2025