Rick Springfield Just Found Out He Has Brain Damage From a 2000 Stage Fall: ‘I’m Working on Trying to Repair That’
Written by djfrosty on March 10, 2025
Rick Springfield recently found out that a bad fall he took in 2000 resulted in brain damage. The 75-year-old “Jessie’s Girl” singer revealed to People magazine that after getting a whole-body MRI scan he was told that he still has lasting brain damage from an on-stage tumble during a Las Vegas show 25 years ago.
“I fell 25 feet, hit my head and then wood came down and hit my head, and then my head hit the stage again,” Springfield said of the nasty fall. “I thought I had just broken my wrist, but on the scan I found out I have some brain damage from the fall, so I’m working on trying to repair that.” Unlike most people, who Springfield said “don’t want to know what’s wrong with them,” the singer and former soap opera star said he’s the “opposite.”
And with good reason.
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One of the them is because Springfield is very attuned to what is going on with his body after his father “died from now wanting to know.” According to the singer, his dad believed he had stomach cancer for years, but never got it checked out. “When he finally collapsed one day at home, they found out it was an ulcer that burst, and he died from the loss of blood. It could have been fixed if he had gotten it checked out,” Springfield said, calling the incident a “giant message” for him.
“If you want to live long, you have to be prepared for some bad news now and then,” he said. “I could find out I have terminal cancer tomorrow and be dead in a year, but I can only do all I can do.”
Despite being halfway through his seventh decade, the singer said he’s still feeling like he’s in his 20s in his head thanks to daily exercise, a mostly pescatarian diet and the dialing back of his alcohol intake a few years ago, which has also had a positive impact on his lifelong battle with depression.
One adage about aging Springfield said he does not abide by is that “bulls–t” about how “wisdom comes with age… Wisdom comes with digging and looking at yourself,” he said. “It doesn’t automatically come.”
Springfield released his Big Hits: Rick Springfield’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2 in December, which features the Foo Fighters team-up “The Man That Never Was,” as well as “I’ll Make You Happy,” “What’s Victoria’s Secret?,” “Wide Awake,” “Our Ship’s Sinking,” “Light This Party Up” and many more. He’s also slated to hit the road on the I Want My 80s Tour this summer alongside such fellow 1980s stars as John Waite, Wang Chung, Paul Young and John Cafferty.