In an interview with People, the Creed lead singer candidly discussed his breakdown last year and his bipolar disorder diagnosis.
Last November, Stapp made headlines when he released a rambling video in which he declared that he was broke and “under some kind of vicious attack.”
"I had a psychotic break that was brought on by alcohol and drug abuse," he says. "I was hallucinating. I drove around the United States for a month, following an angel that I saw on the hood of my car."
"In my delusional thinking, I thought my family was involved in ISIS, and that millions of dollars had been taken from me to support terrorism," he continues. "All of it was nonsense. I was out of my mind."
Eventually Stapp began getting treatment and received the surprising news that he was struggling with bipolar disorder, a condition that causes sharp shifts in energy and mood swings.
“It was hard to process,” Sapp confesses. “There’s a stigma associated with it. But Jaclyn [his wife] kept telling me, ‘Embrace it. We love you.’ It became a big sigh of relief, because finally, we had an answer.”
Stapp he is now sober, in a 12-step program, on medication for his disorder and says, “Nothing is more important than my sobriety.”
