Savage Backyard singer Darren Hayes has opened up a couple of severe head damage he not too long ago suffered that he “might have died” from.
The vocalist from the ‘90s Australian pop duo mentioned the accident happened on March 17 in Santa Monica, California after he handed out shortly after waking up within the morning.
Writing on Instagram on Friday (April 18), Hayes mentioned that the incident occurred two months to the day after his mom handed away. “I’ve been making an attempt to maintain it non-public however my prolonged restoration interval means it’s simpler to confess the reality,” he wrote.
Explaining what occurred, he mentioned: “I misplaced consciousness – I fainted shortly after getting off the bed and collapsed thrice, shedding consciousness every time. The blunt drive trauma was so extreme it snapped my left jawbone in half. I awoke in a pool of blood, horrible ache in my left facet of my head and with 9 enamel shattered.”
Hayes praised the workers at St. John’s Windfall in Santa Monica, including: “I might have died if I landed in a special place. They scanned for and dominated out coronary heart points and something neurological. I used to be a scheduled for emergency reconstructive surgical procedure and this occurred on March twenty first.”
He mentioned surgeons inserted a titanium brace to re-connect his jaw bones and his mouth is now wired shut for a interval of eight weeks.
“Previous to the autumn I had been experiencing gentle headedness and fainting spells for a interval earlier than this incident. I’m underneath unimaginable care. I’ve an incredible heart specialist and oral surgeon and we are attempting to work out how and why I’ve been fainting. To date my coronary heart is regular, my arteries are regular and I don’t have a mind tumor or something that would trigger the accident.”
He outlined the interval of rehab that lies forward of him, and mentioned to his followers: “I like you people. I’m so grateful to be alive and daily I’m getting stronger. I’m virtually one month put up surgical procedure now and I’m solely simply beginning to really feel higher. I’m so grateful to my family members for coming to my rescue and to the docs and nurses who’ve handled me with such care. After surviving a brutal divorce, shedding my Mom, discovering out my father died after which this I’ve had moments of deep unhappiness. However I’m a survivor and I’ll come again robust.”
Hayes shaped Savage Backyard in 1993 with guitarist and keyboardist Daniel Jones and they’re finest remembered for his or her hits ‘Really Madly Deeply’, ‘I Need You’ and ‘I Knew I Beloved You’. They cut up in 2001, with Hayes happening to pursue a solo profession.
In 2022, Hayes spoke about why the band got here to an finish: “I used to be actually supportive of [Jones] and beloved the band. He completely hated the expertise of being well-known, and determined earlier than the discharge of that second album that he didn’t need that life.”
