Chad And Mike Kroeger Praise Their Mom For Sticking Up For Nickelback Through The Negativity: ‘She’s Always Had Our Back’

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Nickelback’s Chad and Mike Kroeger open up on how “great” it was to have their mom be a part of the band’s new musical documentary.

Ahead of the TIFF premiere of the doc, titled “Hate To Love: Nickelback”, Mike told ET Canada’s Morgan Hoffman how special it was to have their mom’s support in the film that profiles the band’s evolution from their humble beginnings in Alberta, to their explosive global success in the early 2000s and the quick wave of online negativity that followed. “She insisted to be in the documentary,” Mike, 51, joked. “No.

It’s great to have her, you know. That’s one of the ‘love Nickelback’ people, obviously. She’s always had our back and, like it is in most cases, when people are coming at us with negativity or bad things, it’s your mom who jumps up and, you know, defends you or the other people that love you that are jumping up to defend you. “It’s like the Jerry Seinfeld’s mom thing: ‘Everybody likes you!

Who wouldn’t like you?’ So we get a lot of that,” the bassist added. READ MORE: Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger Pauses Concert Mid-Song Due To His ‘F**king Absolutely Destroyed Throat’ Chad, 48, then went on to share how some things said in the doc by the band’s loved ones, including their mom, came as a surprise. “Not just mom, but a lot of people.