Motley Crue singer Vince Neil has revealed that he had three other strokes before the one last December that foirced the band to postpone their Las Vegas residency.
Neil told Eddie Trunk that doctors that he had actually had “four strokes throughout the years. Two of ’em I didn’t even know I had. One of ’em was a mini stroke that happened and I just lost feeling in my hand. And that was it. And I got over that pretty quickly. But then this last one, it was a big one.”
When asked how doctors knew that Neil had the other strokes in the past, he explained “Because they could see it in your brain. It’s scarred right around the same spot. I had four scars in my brain, and the neurologist said those are all strokes.”
Neil also revealed that strokes run in his family. He said his father “died of a stroke” back in March 2021. “I moved him to Nashville, right down the street from my house. And he was pretty bad. He couldn’t talk. It was really sad. And he had to have a helper help him, and had to have a motorized wheelchair and stuff. He fought through it, but the stroke just took him out.”
Neil and the Crue are down to the last four shows of their 10-date residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas — this Friday and Saturday, and October 1st and 3rd.
