Deryck Whibley Steps Out With Fiancée Looking Much Healthier Following Near-Death Experience

Sum 41 rocker seems to be doing much better after his scary hospitalization last year

By Bruna Nessif Jul 28, 2015 12:07 AMTags
Deryck Whibley, Jocelyn AguilarIGGI / Splash News

It looks like Deryck Whibley is doing a helluva lot better these days.

The Sum 41 frontman was spotted stepping out with his fiancée Jocelyn Aguilar in Los Angeles and appeared to be much healthier following his near-death experience just one year ago.

Whibley was photographed looking very frail back in May 2014 after revealing that he had suffered organ failure and almost died due to too much drinking.

"Hey everyone, it's deryck here. sorry i've been so m.i.a. lately, but i've been very sick in the hospital for a month and was pretty sick for a few weeks leading up to my trip to the hospital," Whibley wrote on his blog in a post titled "Rock Bottom" at the time.

"The reason i got so sick is from all the hard boozing i've been doing over the years. it finally caught up to me," he continued. "I was drinking hard every day. until one night. i was sitting at home, poured myself another drink around mid night and was about to watch a movie when all of a sudden i didn't feel so good. i then collapsed to the ground unconscious. my fiancé got me rushed to the hospital where they put me into the intensive care unit."

When he got there, Whibley said he was "stuck with needles and IVs all over," adding that he was completely sedated the first week.

"When i finally woke up the next day i had no idea where i was," he continued. "My mum and step dad were standing over me. i was so freaked out. my liver and kidney's collapsed on me. needless to say it scared me straight. i finally realized i can't drink anymore."

"I'm glad it happened now and not when I'm like, 50, because my body wouldn't have been able to handle it...However, now I'm feeling better than I've ever felt," Avril Lavigne's ex-husband, 35, told told Vice's music channel, Noisey, in April of his near-death experience. "I'm healthier. I'm in the best shape of my life."

He continued, "I do look back and think about how much worse it could have been. I could have had way more health problems than I had, but my liver is fine! Everything shut down before any more damage could happen. To walk out of there alive, without cirrhosis or needing transplants, you know, it could have been worse."

Glad to see you doing better, Deryck!