MINISTRY mainman Al Jourgensen celebrated his 100th day sober on Thursday, May 15. He wrote on his Facebook page, “I think I get some kind of chip or medallion for that shit.” Jourgensen checked into a rehabilitation facility in early February to receive treatment for alcohol dependency.
In a September 2013 interview with the Washington Times, Al was asked when the last time was that he used a drug other than alcohol. “Eleven years as of September 6 [2013],” he replied, before adding. “I don’t do pharmaceuticals. I don’t do street drugs. I don’t do anything. I’m just basically slowly killing myself with liquor as opposed to the fast departation of this mortal core with street drugs or pharmaceuticals. So, I’ve chosen that path.” Jourgensen reportedly suffered a near-death experience in 2010 as the result of a ruptured ulcer. He told Revolver magazine back in January 2012, “After [MINISTRY’s] ‘The Last Sucker’ [album was released in 2007], I was puking up blood every day. I didn’t know why. That’s been going on for the last four or five tours, though, and I didn’t see a doctor because I just thought that was part of what happens when you’re my age on a rock tour. I didn’t know there was a condition attached to it. I would puke blood and get off tour and it would go away. But this time I got off tour and it was worse. Blood was coming out my nose, my dick, my mouth. I’d stand up and fall over. I lost so much blood, I couldn’t even walk. Instead of calling the doctor, I put on this medieval helmet that I had made in the Czech Republic, and I would quit hitting my head on the tiles, if I put on the helmet. I wore the helmet around for a couple days. I was a tired, run-down, bloated drunk — just a mess. And then I exploded on March 27, 2010, and they had to take me to the emergency room.”
Asked if he could still drink, Jourgensen replied: “I have a male nurse who weighs 350 pounds named Hector. I call him ‘Hector, the third bottle rejecter.’ I’m only allowed two bottles of wine a day now. And it doesn’t even get to that. It’s about a bottle and a half, and that seems to be good along with the medicine I have to take every day for the rest of my life. I just went and saw my doctor and she said, ‘Yeah, you’re actually doing pretty good for being a fucking degenerate.’” Al Jourgensen’s book, “Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen” — penned by Jourgensen with Jon Wiederhorn — came out last year on Da Capo Press. It is described in a press release as “the high-octane, no-holds barred memoir by the legendary godfather of industrial music. The book is fascinating, both ugly and captivating, revealing a character that has lived a hard life his way, without compromise.”
I can’t be bothered to make a facebook page just to spy on him. Does he say what that something else is? is it weed? he’s probably fine if he’s smoking weed.
He’s been smoking weed pretty regularly for about 3+ years now. I know (just from statements he’s made in interviews and such) that he doesn’t really consider it a drug. I’m not sure if he’s still toking (I stopped following anything on his facebook page a few days after he registered) but I think rehab / dependency places typically expect the patients to stop the pot too.
He’s full of shit getting high 24/7 is not sobriety. He could still do wonders if he can just get comfortable in his own skin finally…he’s very close now.
He’s full of shit getting high 24/7 is not sobriety.
Yeah, I know. I was referring to comments he made in the past. I don’t know if he’s smoking weed again or not. I should hope not, but It’s really hard to tell, and I haven’t been watching any updates anyway.
I just hope he stays clean and healthy . . . and alive.
In other posts he made it clear he’s still smoking weed post rehab for his back pain or something and angrily defended his decision to do so based on his back pain.
I think if you know about addiction you would not think him smoking weed is harmless at this stage. How can he achieve any real clarity or peace with himself if high on weed?
I’m not saying he’s not trying. He’s come a hell of a long way. But being in recovery myself I know 'aint no true sobriety and all that comes with that, with weed still around.
Well if thats all hes doing meaning no more alcohol, no more cigarettes, no abuse of pills, then id say weed is as close to sobriety as that dude is gonna get. Hes no longer fucking up his liver, hes not collapsing vains, hes not farming lung cancer. I think this is as close as it gets to sobriety for him.
I know, DJ. I’m actually “friends” with him on FB, but stopped reading or looking at posts some time ago. I felt myself getting dumber as I tried reading them and lost interest pretty damn quickly.
[reply]I know, DJ. I’m actually “friends” with him on FB, but stopped reading or looking at posts some time ago. I felt myself getting dumber as I tried reading them and lost interest pretty damn quickly.
I was responding to grmpy who said he didn’t have time to create a fake account or whatever he said. I’ll check it once or twice a month if I happen to think about it. I’ll ready his headline posts but never read the suck up comments from his friends. It goes from bad to worse pretty quickly when you do that. I agree, it is pretty much a waste of time checking what he is up to… but so is prongs.[/reply]
At least Prongs is fun
I wonder… Do you think he’s had any alien encounters since he got sober? Or do aliens only reach out to druggy/drunky humans?
I was skimming through his page yesterday as I was curious if he was, in fact, still smoking weed. I think I saw something about aliens or lizard people or something somewhere, but I can’t really be bothered to look for it again.
In general, though, yeah, you’re much more likely to be visited by aliens if you’re completely whacked out on drugs. I guess aliens are dope fiends too and don’t want to waste their time with someone who ain’t holdin’.