![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m laying in bed and I’m thinking, ‘Oh my God, I have to block out thoughts of her so I don’t lose my head. ![]() “I was self-medicating…and not being able to sleep. He recalls going on tour, cheating on his girlfriend, his life spiraling: “I started using more and more and more drugs…just really disappearing from everyone and putting all of my vulnerability and all of my depression and all of my addiction and bad decisions into my music.”Īfter his girlfriend kicked him out, he was living with his manager, Paul Nugent. I will be forever grateful to Christianity for giving me that piece of fruit to pluck from, to find spirituality and so I just love it.”Īlso Read Blue October’s Newest Honors the Album Journeyīlue October’s highest chart-topping single, “Hate Me” (released in January 2006 off the band’s fourth studio album, Foiled ) was written when a 26-year-old Justin was in the grips of addiction. “My mom always raised me on Jesus Christ and Christianity and faith like that. Very important, so can you do this in a timely fashion, or can I do the interview while I’m getting tattooed?’”ĭespite his devotion to permanent religious imagery, he says he’s not a “Bible-beating person,” but when he went to rehab, finding a higher power was critical to getting sober, a journey we spoke about in-depth last summer when Justin was celebrating a full decade of sobriety. “I almost had to cancel it,” he says, of the new ink, “because I was like, ‘Look, I got a SPIN magazine freakin’ interview coming up. Before we spoke he’d received a new Jesus piece, in the “old style…of Sailor Jerry or Percy Waters,” a bright portrait on his leg. “I’m obsessed with old traditional tattoos,” he tells me. He bends and stretches and points to dozens of cross tattoos of all shapes, colors, and sizes, all over his body. Justin Furstenfeld is covered in crosses-literally. ![]()
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