SO GOOD TO BE ALIVE –
April 30, 2025 – Mark Chesnutt has announced his “2025 Redemption Tour” in celebration of health, recovery and sobriety, and is going public with the disclosure of multiple health scares which almost ended his life. In recent years, he underwent invasive spine surgery, years of alcoholism, rehab and open heart surgery in succession, all of which cost time he intended to spend strengthening his career.
Chesnutt’s struggle began in his early 20s when he fractured his spine. He lost the ability to walk and fell down an escalator at the Houston airport.
“My surgery was a major major one,” he says, explaining doctors scraped scar tissue off his nerves and that he now has two titanium rods in his back. “I couldn’t work. I was laid up, didn’t drive, couldn’t walk, couldn’t do anything.”
Even though he returned to touring, he still struggled with balance and frequently fell, then got sick from alcohol and had to go back to the hospital. Doctors gave Chesnutt four blood transfusions that night and told him he probably wouldn’t survive the following two days from bleeding.
