Blink 182's Mark Hoppus thought he was going to die after cancer diagnosis

Blink-182 star has candidly admitted he thought he was going to die. The band's frontman, 53, revealed he had even started preparing his family for a life without him.

The musician was opening up on the four-year anniversary of his diagnosis of the fast-spreading cancer. In 2021, he confirmed he had been diagnosed with stage 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma before announcing in September of the same year that he was cancer free.

Now, as he looked back on his darkest times of his illness, Hoppus admitted he had been planning his family's life without him. Speaking to , the singer said: "It was four years ago today.

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"I was playing video games and I was talking to my son who was away at college and I felt a thing on my shoulder. And three days later I was going ready for chemo. That quick."

He went on to tell the DJ how there was no standard treatment for his diagnosis, before labelling the chemo as "awful", saying: "It was brutal.

"“The good news is my form of cancer, the doctor told me I had a 60% chance of getting through it and never having to deal with it again. But the bad part was the chemo was one of the worst that you could undergo and it was bad."

He added he doesn't "recommend it". "Zero out of five stars," he said. "But it saved me so it was all good."

However, he admitted the struggles he faced during his toughest times. He admitted he had began to prepare wife Kelly and son Jack to "move on" without him.

"It was pretty dark," he confessed. "It was awful and I really thought that I wasn’t going to make it. I thought I was on the wrong side of that 60%.

“I was mentally preparing for my family moving on and what my wife was going to do after I was gone and who was going to help raise my son."

In 2022, Mark revealed . In a chat with PEOPLE, the star explained how his wife asked him if he was going to kill himself and, although that had been on his mind, the blunt nature of the question helped him to snap out of his negative thoughts.

"I was like, 'What a s****y thing to say,'" he told the publication. "But also, what a kind thing to say, like, 'Snap out of it... you have a beatable form of cancer. It's going to suck to get there, but get there'. I had to do the work.

Now, in his latest interview, Mark said: "To be here with you all today and to sit next to Captain Crap Beard is just a dream come true.”

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