John Mellencamp may be a life-long cigarette smoker, however he realized he needed to change his way of life after a well being scare in 1994 at age 42.
'I had numerous medical doctors going, "John, your cholesterol's way too high and you smoke." I would go, "F*** it,"' the 70-year-old Grammy winner recalled to Folks on Wednesday.
'I discovered my lesson after I had a coronary heart assault.'
John had already had his fill of medication and alcohol by 1971 at age 20, however he watched in horror as his buddies by no means stopped partying.
'There comes a time while you received to go, "Okay, I'm done with this s***,"' Mellencamp admitted.
'It is humorous and enticing to be 25 years previous and be someplace excessive and drunk. However while you get to a sure age, it is not humorous anymore. It is not cute, not horny. Nothing good about it.'
The Indiana singer-painter - who's offered practically 30M data - now calls himself 'the luckiest man you are ever going to speak to.'
'I've walked down the streets of New York, Paris and London, and folks stroll as much as me and say, "You have a lot of angels,"' John mentioned.
'The primary time it occurred, I assumed, "You're f***ing wacky." But it surely's like, yeah, I do.'
Mellencamp reunited along with his 5 youngsters and eight grandchildren, carrying matching PJs, over the Christmas vacation at his 20-acre Monroe Lake residence in Bloomington, IN.
The Chasing Rainbows rocker was selling his twenty fifth studio album Strictly a One-Eyed Jack - named after essentially the most harmful card within the deck - which Republic Data drops this Friday.
'Individuals who know me would say, "John is kind of prickly, and he can be dangerous." I am not for everyone,' John famous.
And his solo exhibit John Mellencamp: Work and Assemblages runs by March 27 on the Museum of Artwork-DeLand in Florida.
One of many items on show is a portrait of Mellencamp's ex-fiancée Meg Ryan, whom he cut up with in November 2019 after relationship on/off for eight years.
The thrice-divorced father-of-five ended his fling with realtor Natasha Barrett in August after a 'few months' following the tip of his nine-month relationship with Nurse Jamie aka Jamie Sherrill in January 2021.
'All I've ever wanted was a guitar, bike, some woman to place her arms round my neck and a stereo,' John acknowledged.
'That was it. That seems like actual success to me.'
