Five Finger Death Punch bassist Chris Kael has opened up about what led him to go to rehab. According to Blabbermouth, in an interview with Machine Head's Robb Flynn, Kael said, “The real decline for me started maybe two months before I cleaned up. I was going through a divorce at the time. … I wrote my then-wife a note — she may still have it, I'm sure she probably does. It was basically like, 'Hey, I'm going to get help' and become the guy that she married in the first place and not this person I had become. So I very much wanted to get back and get out of rehab and go back to being married and whatnot.”
He continued, “But I basically ended up in just like a real depressed period, and I decided, 'F*ck, man. I can't do this anymore.' I called my buddy Greg, and he took me to rehab that day. And it was the weakest I've ever felt in my life, walking into that rehab. But then once I got out of rehab, I was like, that's the f*cking strongest I've ever been, is admitting that I can't deal with this and I need to figure something else out.”
Kael previously revealed that he used “about an eight-ball of cocaine a week” before he and FFDP singer Ivan Moody each got sober a few years ago.
