Daniel Johns has spoken candidly about the car accident he was involved in earlier this year – as well as his subsequent stay in rehab, with the crash stemming from the singer’s struggles with mental health issues – and the tensions that linger between himself and his former bandmates in Silverchair.Back in March – just weeks before the release of his latest solo album, ‘FutureNever’ – Johns revealed that he’d entered rehab after being charged with high-range drink-driving, having collided with a vehicle in the Hunter region of New South Wales.
He plead guilty to the charge, and was subsequently ordered to complete 10 months of an intensive corrections sentence.Earlier this week, Johns appeared on Australian current affairs program The Project, where he explained to host Carrie Bickmore that while he was working on ‘FutureNever’, he “pretty much had a full-on nervous breakdown”.He said of the situation: “I got in a car, and I was barely even aware what I was trying to do.
I just wanted to escape. It was the equivalent of just like running into the forests. Everything was too much. I was in a really quiet environment, a really peaceful environment, and I was trying to run away.
I didn’t realise that all the noise was in my head, so there was nowhere to run, there was nowhere to hide.”Johns went on to say that he “remember[s] every detail” of the crash itself, continuing: “I remember being lost.
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