Disturbed’s David Draiman shares he almost lost his life to “addiction and depression”
nme.comDisturbed frontman David Draiman recently opened up about almost losing his life due to “addiction and depression.”During the band’s show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Draiman took some time before performing their song ‘A Reason To Fight’ to discuss how he missed his late friends who took their own lives – namely Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, Stone Temple Pilots’ Scott Weiland, and Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell – while adding that a couple of months ago he “almost joined them.”“A reason to fight — we all need one.
The demons that are known as addiction and depression are very, very real. They are diseases no different than cancer. You can’t see depression.
You can’t see addiction. It festers inside,” he told the crowd.He continued: “I’m tired of losing everybody I love to depression and addiction.
Every single band member on this stage has dealt with those feelings, with those demons. And I miss the friends that we’ve lost.
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