Slipknot’s Sid Wilson gives fans a health update as they recover from a fire explosion.
The musician, 47, spoke to Fox News about his progress in hospital after suffering severe burns last week.
“My whole right arm is bandaged, half of my left arm. My face is almost melted from the nose down. But the swelling has gone down and they said the face is kind of amazing because it’s regenerative – it happens very quickly, it seems to heal quickly” , he told the newspaper. – I guess I’ve had better days, but I’m alive, so I’m fine.
Wilson explained that the accident happened while he was working on a log burner on a farm on his Iowa property, where he lives with girlfriend Kelly Osbourne and their two-year-old son Sidney.
“I lit it on fire a few nights ago and let it burn,” he explained. “So the next day I went to check to see, you know, how much was left, if anything was left. And there was a certain amount of debris on the side still left, so I, like a doll, [did] which I shouldn’t do, but I added a little gas.”
The artist said he couldn’t find a long branch to illuminate the remains from afar, so he made an impulsive decision that caused his injuries.
“Lack of patience got the better of me and I said, screw him. I’ll be fine, you know?” he remembered. “And I crouched down and reached down and lit it, and it was really humid out there so there was still a lot of steam lingering in there, and it’s just…wow. Exploded.”
Slipknot’s Sid Wilson hospitalized with ‘serious burns’ from Bonfire ‘Explosion’: ‘I’m holding on’
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Wilson quickly went to the home to pick up Osbourne, and the family was rushed to emergency care before being taken to a major hospital in Des Moines.
“Mostly they bandaged the wounds and put all these fake scabs [stuff] everywhere [my] until they could get to the burn unit and get the scabs off,” he said, noting he was transferred again to another hospital in Iowa City.
The rocker was recovering from home to the hospital and said he was surprisingly in good spirits throughout the ordeal. “I will say I have a pretty good attitude about it,” he added.
However, Wilson admitted that the “hardest part” of his accident was the fact that it was easily avoidable.
“I’m not going to let it depress me. The hardest part is just feeling stupid for doing it,” he told the newspaper. “It’s not even the physical part. It’s like, ‘Oh man, I really learned the hard way.’ I have to make sure that sometimes I just slow down and really study the situation before I just dive in headfirst.”
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