Josh Homme from ‘Queens of the Stone Age’ has cancer

Musician Josh Homme, frontman and founder of the rock band Queens of the Stone Age, has revealed that he was diagnosed with cancer last year and underwent surgery to have it removed.

Homme announced this in an interview for the specialized magazine Revolver, in which he did not want to give much more details.

He is also a co-founder Eagles of Death Metal he explained that he was still inside treatment and with confidence finish mastering diseaseAmerican media reported on Tuesday.

“I will remember it as something tricky, but I will get better (…) There are many things I want to do and many people I want to do them with,” said the artist who recently turned 50. in statements for Revolver.

In addition, Homme called cancer “the icing on the cake of an interesting period” because it also held in recent years legal dispute with his ex-husband, singer-songwriter and guitarist Brody Dalle, for custody of their three children after 2019 ends. stormy relationship in which both were accused of physical abuse.

“It was the darkest four years of my life (…). I will consider my new life based on all those pieces,” said Homme.

In 2021, his children – aged 11 and 7 – presented a Denied access against him musician that his ex-wife, the singer of the group The, also denied them punk group The Distillers, was sentenced to community service for not delivering the youngest son to Homme.

Meanwhile, their other daughter, now 17, was granted a restraining order in 2021 that expired in 2022.

Homme and Dalle are waiting for a new one audience scheduled for the end of this year in which the judge will again decide on the custody of their three children.

It was all channeled by Queens of the Stone Age referent emotions on the new album “In Times New Roman”which opens this Friday before the group kicks off a new tour of the US and Canada on August 3rd.