Richie Faulkner, a stroke caused him to be brain damage

The guitarist of Judas Priest Richie Faulkner It is still struggling with the complications following the aortic aneurysm had in 2021. Faulkner collapsed on stage with a broken aorta during the Judas Priest concert at the Louder Than Life Festival in Kentucky and was urgently made. In the following years other operations followed.

Now, in an interview with Premier Guitar, he revealed that permanent brain damage have been caused. About a month after the first operation, he had what he later discovered to be a Tia, a transient ischemic attack, also called “mini-icus”. Faulkner said that although you don’t remember the details of that day, doctors informed him that Tia can lead to real strokes. He then had another tia about a year after he made another heart surgery necessary. At that point, i Judas Priest They had started going on tour with Faulkner, since he had been permission from his doctors, but he realized that there was something wrong.

The 45 -year -old musician born in London recalled: “There was something in my right hand, I thought they were my rings, I wore those stupid rings for some reason. I thought it was that. So I removed the rings. I thought they prevented something. I was changing my pits. There was something different. I could do it, but there was something different in my right hand. By washing my teeth and I thought: ‘There is something wrong with the right hand.

After being visited once again by the doctors, Faulkner discovered that he had not only had mini-ottus. “They said that the fact that it had not passed means that it is not a tia, it is a stroke. Tia damage can disappear. The stroke, here. It is damaged. You have brain damage. I thought I had brain damage before, but this is real. It is a small thing on the left side”.

Richie Faulkner he continued saying he was worried about being able to disappoint fans of Judas Priest For the way his illness is influencing his way of playing. “I feel I have a lot of confidence from fans, from guitar companies, from the cord companies. They support me. They bet on me and I don’t want anyone to know it, because as soon as they know, they will lose trust, they will pull back. I thought that in a band like the priest, there must be world stuff and I don’t feel like a world level. I went there every evening. He will discover.

Despite everything, the guitarist thinks that this setback has encouraged him to get the better of the situation. “I know there are many people out there they play, sing, whatever they do, and they feel as if they were not good enough or that we do not have these problems, this affects mental health. I want them to know that they are not alone. All of us, probably more people than we believe, fight with something somewhere.”

THE Judas Priest they will be in concert in Italy next summer, On July 2, at the Ferrara Summer Festival.