Motley Crue's Vince Neil Had Three Strokes Leading Up to the "Big One"

"It was Christmas night, and I went to sleep. I woke up and I couldn't get out of bed. I'm, like, 'What's going on?' And my left leg wouldn't work, and my left arm wouldn't work. So I had to get help out of bed. I couldn't push myself up to get myself comfortable in bed. And I had to have help. And slowly but surely, the sensation came back in my legs."

"[My then-girlfriend] Rain has an aunt who's a nurse, and she called her aunt, and she said, 'This is what's going on with Vince,' and [her aunt] goes, 'He's had a stroke.' And by then it was just too late to go to the hospital because you have to get [there] within, like, 12 hours or something. And I was just kind of, like, 'Oh, it's gonna go away. It's gonna go away.' ... I thought, 'Oh, well, it'll come back'"

Vince Neil suffered a major stroke on Christmas and experienced three earlier strokes leading up to it. The strokes left his left side temporarily paralyzed, forcing him to relearn to walk. Medical staff initially doubted his ability to return to the stage. The strokes prompted postponement of Mötley Crüe's planned Las Vegas residency, which was later rescheduled to run at Dolby Live at Park MGM through October 3. Neil delayed seeking hospital care because he expected symptoms to subside, and a nurse relative of his then-girlfriend identified the condition as a stroke after symptoms appeared.

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