Rick Springfield in 2023. Photo: Jay Gilbert Rick Springfield is sharing some surprising findings from a recent Prenuvo whole-body MRI scan.
The "Jessie’s Girl" singer, 75, tells PEOPLE that the scan showed he still has brain damage from a fall he took onstage in Las Vegas in 2000.
"I fell 25 feet, hit my head and then wood came down and hit my head, and then my head hit the stage again," he says. "I thought I had just broken my wrist, but on the scan I found out I have some brain damage from the fall, so I’m working on trying to repair that."
While Springfield acknowledges many people "don’t want to know what’s wrong with them," he’s the "opposite."
"My dad died from not wanting to know," he says. "He thought he had stomach cancer for years and never got it checked out. When he finally collapsed one day at home, they found out it was an ulcer that burst, and he died from the loss of blood. It could have been fixed if he had gotten it checked out."
"That was a giant message to me: If you want to live long, you have to be prepared for some bad news now and then," he continues. "I could find out I have terminal cancer tomorrow and be dead in a year, but I can only do all I can do."
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Luckily for Springfield, he still feels like he’s in his 20s "in my head": “Then I see people dying from old age and disease and go, ‘ Wow , I’m the same age as old people!’"
To keep himself feeling his best at 75, Springfield exercises every day and eats a largely pescatarian diet . He also cut back on alcohol two years ago."I was drinking quite a bit, and as you get older, it’s kind of a natural thing to drop all that s—," he says. "I’m not [in] AA — I mean, I know a lot of people it’s worked for. I’ll have a couple of […]
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