Ever since May 2017, it has become a public knowledge that for the past couple of years, Simple Plan’s bassists David Desrosiers has been struggling with depression and in order to make himself get better, he has decided to take an indefinite hiatus from touring with the band and has been missing on tours ever since April. On Friday it was also revealed that he won’t be attending the upcoming shows in Japan, Hawaii and the Warped Rewind At Sea cruise either.
Out of respect to the band and most importantly to David himself, not many journalists have asked the band members in recent interviews about the bassist’s absence and his current well-being. On the most recent episode of the Man Of The Hour radio show (which you can download as a podcast on iTunes – 2nd episode of season 24), Patrick Langlois noticed this and since him and the whole band have been friends for a very long time, decided to ask Sebastien himself how David’s doing.
In his response, Sebastien revealed that David had in fact dropped by the recent Simple Plan show in Montreal, Canada in September and the band members got to talk to him a little bit face to face after a while, to check up on how he’s doing.
You can read the transcript of Sebastien’s whole answer and what he had to say about David’s current health situation below:
Of course, but, funny enough, we played Montreal a couple weeks ago and he actually came out before the show around soundcheck time to say hi and see how everything was going. And he was in good spirits, although still struggling, he’s not ready to come back on tour as we all know, tour life is not an optimal getting better situation with the traveling and all that – the crazy weird schedules. And that’s exactly what he doesn’t need right now to get better. He was just basically coming to say: ‘Thanks guys, I hear everything’s going great, I hear the shows are great. Thank you for being so supportive’ – which we are, we just want him to get better and if he wants to get better as well, he WILL get better. You know, he knows he will, we know he will. So there was nothing but good things to be said about seeing him the other day.
I think he was very happy to come in and say hi to everyone. Because obviously, Montreal, our hometown show, he wishes he could be on stage with us, you know? You know, we always have a great time, Montreal is a crazy city, it was probably the loudest show of the tour, honestly. Loud AF! And yeah, through the darkness, he still knows he’s gonna get better, he knows he’s gonna come back and you know, he’s going through the tough times right now to make sure he’s fine to finally get back on tour and play in front of everyone again!”