In his new memoir “Fahrenheit-182,” Mark Hoppus opened up about a dark time in his life following the disbandment of Blink-182 in 2005.
The musician revealed that his bandmate Tom DeLonge’s decision to quit the band, which ultimately led to their breakup, left him with a massive feeling of loss.
“When Blink fell apart, I lost everything. I lost my direction, I lost my confidence, I lost my sense of self,” Hoppus writes in his book. “I didn’t know what I was supposed to do or who I was supposed to be. I’d hear one of our songs playing in a store and have to walk out.”
Hoppus explains that he fell into a deep depression after the split, and even considered taking his own life.
“I sank lower and lower. I could tell I was near the bottom when I started finding comfort in the thought of suicide: If it gets bad enough, I can always just kill myself,” he wrote.
Thankfully, Hoppus never acted on those dark thoughts and instead decided to seek help.
“I started talking to a psychiatrist who put me on medications, which helped a lot. It let me take a breath. It allowed me the space in my own head to say, ‘You’re being a d*ck, Mark. Knock it off.’”
