Even so, he doesn’t yet feel 100 percent. “Put it this way: I had a good time.”Īfter undergoing rigorous treatment, Holmes was recently given the news that his throat was free of cancer and that there was no metastasis. People might say, ‘Yeah, sure, he partied and drank all the time.’” He laughs. There was no cancer in my family, so I guess it was self-induced. “I smoked all my life – not just cigarettes, but everything under the sun. “I don’t know if it was surprising,” he said. In early 2022, however, he was diagnosed with throat cancer and was forced to put his career on hold. His band was gigging regularly throughout Europe, and he attempted to reset his public image via a documentary film, Mean Man, which detailed his post-W.A.S.P. Leading up to the Covid pandemic, things appeared to be on the upswing for Holmes.
I never thought I would wind up in this place, but it’s good.” “We’ve got a dog and a couple of chickens. “Things are better for me here,” he says. He insists he feels right at home in France. With his deep, gravelly voice, gray mustache and goatee, and a general world-weary countenance, the 64-year-old guitarist could easily be mistaken for a grizzled biker. not once, but twice (his final departure was in 2001, and it seems permanent) and has been through several bands before deciding to front his own group, Mean Man, in 2015. Sober for the past 26 years, Holmes now leads a quieter and quainter life in Cannes, France, with his French-born wife and manager, Catherine, whom he married in 2012. Yeah, I was hammered in the pool, but so what? That’s the way I lived my life at the time. “The funny thing is, some people think that scene was faked, which is crazy. You go on the internet and that’s all you see – I’m the drunk guy in the pool. Reflecting on the scene now, the guitarist heaves a sigh and says, “People started looking at me like I was a drunk.
It’s a moment in rock movie infamy that has dogged Holmes over the years.
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