Darren Hayes is on the mend following a near-fatal damage.
The Savage Backyard singer, 52, took to Instagram on Friday to disclose how he suffered a “terrible accident” final month wherein he misplaced consciousness and broke his jaw.
“On March 17, 2 months to the day after my Mother passed away, I had a terrible accident,” Hayes wrote alongside a startling photograph of his restoration. “I’ve been trying to keep it private but my lengthy recovery period means it’s easier to admit the truth.”
Hayes mentioned that he “fainted shortly after getting out of bed” and “collapsed 3 times.” He suffered a “snapped” jawbone and “shattered” 9 of his tooth.
“I lost consciousness – I fainted shortly after getting out of bed and collapsed 3 times, losing consciousness each time,” the “Break Me Shake Me” musician wrote. “The blunt force trauma was so severe it snapped my left jawbone in half.”
“I woke up in a pool of blood,” he added, “terrible pain in my left side of my head and with 9 teeth shattered.”
Hayes defined that he was found on the ground and rushed to the emergency room. He additionally admitted that he “could have died” if he had not landed the way in which he did.
“I’m so lucky that I was found, and taken to the amazing team at the emergency room of St John’s Providence in Santa Monica, where they acted quickly,” the “Crash and Burn” crooner mentioned. “I could have died if I landed in a different position.”
After medical doctors established that Hayes’ damage was not associated to “heart issues” or “anything neurological,” he underwent “emergency reconstructive surgery” on March 21.
“The incredible surgeons inserted a titanium brace to re-connect my jaw bones and my mouth was wired shut for a minimum of 8 weeks while the left jaw bone could heal,” he wrote alongside an X-ray of his damaged jaw.
Hayes and his medical doctors, who dominated out medication and alcohol, at the moment are “trying to work out how and why I have been fainting.”
“So far my heart is normal, my arteries are normal and I don’t have a brain tumor or anything that could cause the accident,” he mentioned. “No judgement [sic] to those who partake but I do not take drugs or drink alcohol – this was a complete shock.”
“But we are still investigating,” Hayes defined, including that he’ll be “out of action for quite some time” as his jaw heals and his tooth are changed.
The “Truly Madly Deeply” vocalist added that the “terrible accident” got here not simply within the wake of his mom’s loss of life in January but additionally after his divorce from his ex-husband, artist Richard Cullen, in 2023 and after studying that his father had additionally handed away.
“I’m so grateful to my loved ones for coming to my rescue and to the doctors and nurses who have treated me with such care,” Hayes wrote. “After surviving a brutal divorce, losing my Mother, finding out my father died and then this I have had moments of deep sadness.”
“But I am a survivor,” he concluded the put up, “and I’ll come back strong.”
Hayes and Daniel Jones, 51, made up the Australian pop duo Savage Backyard earlier than they break up in 2001. They rose to fame within the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s with hit songs like “I Want You” and “To the Moon and Back.”
Though Jones reportedly retired from music following the band’s break up, Hayes nonetheless toured and cast a profitable solo profession earlier than his traumatizing fall final month.
