Author Benedetta Baldin – 5.4.2026
Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix discussed how he and his bandmates want to dispel the stigma associated with mental health concerns by continuing to discuss his battles with addiction, despair, and suicide thoughts in a recent interview with Australia’s Heavy, as per Blabbermouth.
It’s always been a fabric of who we are and what we sing about and what we talk about in our music. Taking the darkness and turning it into light, taking lemons and making lemonade — just a goofy saying like that really means something deep.
Change, transformation has been a huge part of my life, creatively, personally, spiritually, and the mental health conversation has come to the forefront in the recent years. And I think it’s important that we address it. I think it’s important that we find ways to heal and grow and then take what we’ve learned individually and pass it on to somebody that is in need of healing and growing. I think in order to keep that healing and that evolution, you have to share it.
You gotta help somebody that’s in need. And I think that that is the magic. It’s not about just healing and growing; it’s about healing and growing and helping and serving. That’s where the magic is. ‘Cause if you just keep it for yourself, that’s not how you change the world. And I think it’s an inside job in the beginning to heal and grow, but then, like I said a million times over, if you share that and you can help somebody else, it helps put things in perspective, I think. It’s been an evolution for me in this career, and I think we’re entering into this era of there’s some wisdom that I’ve gained and I wanna share it.
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