JASON HOOK On His Final Weeks As Member Of FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: ‘I Didn’t Feel Like I Was Surrounded By Anyone Who Cared About Me’ [Video]

In a new interview with Talkin’ Bout Rock, former FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH guitarist Jason Hook reflected on his December 2019 surgery to have his gallbladder removed. Hook‘s operation took place just hours after the band was forced to postpone a show in Duluth, Minnesota. The final two concerts of FIVE FINGER‘s fall 2019 tour were also postponed: at CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska and at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa.

“It was horrible,” Hook recalled. “In most cases, our body is just listening to our brain, and I was experiencing a tremendousamount of stress at that phase of that situation, and it caught up to me. Because I had asked, ‘What makes something like this happen?’ I’m, like, super healthy, take care of myself, blah, blah, blah, blah. And all the analysts and the doctors are, like, ‘Well, stress can be a big component.’ I’m, like, ‘Well, that makes sense.’ And it …