Slipknot turntablist Sid Wilson gave an update to Fox News Digital following a cryptic Instagram post over the weekend showing the 47-year-old in a hospital bed with the caption, “Ouch.”
Wilson revealed to the outlet that it was an at-home bonfire accident which led to his hospitalization. "Don’t f--k around with fire,” he said. “It’s going to win every time."
"My whole right arm is bandaged up, half of my left arm. My face is basically melted from nose down,” Wilson shared of his gruesome injuries. “But the swelling's gone down, and they said the face is kind of amazing that it's regenerative, it happens real fast, seems to heal quickly," he explained.
“I’ve had better days, I guess,” he admitted, “but I’m alive, so I’m doing good."
Wilson explained that he has only himself to blame for the injury, as it occurred after he torched a discarded wood pile on the Iowa property he shares with partner Kelly Osbourne and their one-year-old son.
"A few nights ago, I lit it and let it burn down. So, the next day, I went to check it to see, you know, how much was left, if anything. And there was a certain amount of debris around the side still left, so I, like a dummy, [did] what I'm not supposed to do, but I added some gas to it," Wilson said.
"And then I started looking around for a long branch to kind of be at a distance to light it,” he continued, “and then I couldn't find one immediately. So, my lack of patience got the better of me, and I was like, screw it. I'll be all right, you know? And I squatted down and reached out and lit it, and it just, it was really humid out so there was still a lot of vapors lingering around in there, and it just…woof. Exploded."
Wilson jumped on his four-wheeler and “flew up” to the property. "[I] just ran in the house and was like, ‘We got to go!’" he recalled.
Wilson still had to drive himself to urgent care, as Osbourne didn’t feel confident driving on the unpaved country roads. He first went to urgent care before being transferred to a hospital.
"Once I finally got to the hospital in Des Moines, I was able to just kind of, like, let go of whatever it was I was holding onto to get me through it,” Wilson said. "When stuff like that happens, you got to go into a mode where it's like, you know, get yourself where you need to be before your body shuts down."
"They basically dressed the wounds and put all of this fake scab [stuff] all over [his] body until they could get to the burn unit and they could take the scabs off," Osbourne said of the Des Moines hospital. Wilson was then transferred to a burn unit in Iowa City, where he was kept overnight for observation before being released the next day.
Of Osbourne, Wilson said, “She’s been completely invaluable. "Being here and taking care of all that for me, I'm not really sure what I’d be doing if she wasn’t here doing that."
Wilson is due back for a checkup in a few days, but he doesn’t believe skin grafts will be required. He’s still planning to perform at Slipknot’s September 1 show in Pryor, Oklahoma.
