Cage The Elephant’s Matt Shultz: “I was in psychosis for three years – my arrest was a miracle”
nme.comCage The Elephant singer Matt Shultz has spoken to NME about the three years he spent in psychosis and the arrest on gun charges that resulted and the new album ‘Neon Pill’ – which came out of the nightmare.Shultz was detained in a hotel in New York in January 2023 for carrying firearms which were only licensed in Kentucky and Tennessee.
The arrest, a court found, was the result of psychotic delusions which Shultz had been suffering from as a side-effect of medication he’d been prescribed.
After eight months of treatment, he now believes himself to be fully recovered.“It’s a lot better now than it was, for sure,” he told NME. “The things that happened in the past three years, I never would have dreamed of or imagined.
I was prescribed the medication and never could have guessed that there would have been the adverse effects that there were.
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