Five Finger Death Punch bassist Chris Kael hasn t been shy about the drug and alcohol abuse that led to his rehabilitation. But in a recent interview with Machine Head s Robb Flynn, Kael offered an illuminating overview of the various low points that led to him getting clean.
The story unfolded last week on an episode of Flynn s
No Fuckin Regrets podcast. On the show, Kael described the circumstances that led to his life s weakest moment just before he entered rehab.
Watch the full interview down toward the bottom of this post. The real decline for me started maybe two months before I cleaned up, Kael said, as reported by Blabbermouth. I was going through a divorce at the time. … I wrote [my then-wife] a note she may still have it, I m sure she probably does. It was basically like, Hey, I m going to get help and become the guy that she married in the first place and not this person I had become. So I very much wanted to get back and get out of rehab and go back