{"id":620800,"date":"2026-05-03T09:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620800\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:19:12","slug":"former-metallica-bassist-jason-newsted-celebrates-all-clear-from-throat-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620800\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted celebrates all clear from throat cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Metallica<\/a> bass player Jason Newsted<\/a> is celebrating having been given the all clear after undergoing treatment for throat cancer.<\/p>\n

Newsted, 63, was diagnosed with the condition in 2025 and went through laser surgery before being told he was clear of cancer just a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

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The experience has led to him replacing his fondness for alcohol and marijuana with home-made lemonade as part of a new “clear-headed” lifestyle.<\/p>\n

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He tells Let There Be Talk (transcribed by Blabbermouth<\/a>): “So one week from today, it’ll be a year. May 8 of 2025, I underwent a procedure for throat cancer.<\/p>\n

“And so they took a bunch of shit outta here and then they went in with lasers this way and took a bunch of shit out. So the cavern inside my head is different than it was, but we got it early. And I got my ‘free and clear’ about three weeks ago. So I beat it.<\/p>\n

“I promised myself I was going to rest, and that was the first time I’ve done that in my life. I’m usually just on or off. And so I promised myself I was gonna take the gravity off and lay down for the right amount of hours.<\/p>\n

“And there’s no way, with my arrogant, spoiled ass that I would’ve stopped smoking weed, that I would’ve stopped drinking, that I would’ve stopped doing all the things.<\/p>\n

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“But the great spirit got my attention and said, ‘That’s not good right now, man.’ And so it pulled me off it. And so now I’m more clear-headed than I’ve been in my entire adult life.<\/p>\n

“And so there’s blessings within everything. The lemonade I’m making this summer, bro, mmm. Sweet. Ooh.”<\/p>\n

Newsted is preparing for a summer North American tour with Jason Newsted & the Chophouse Band, kicking off in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Metallica bass player Jason Newsted is celebrating having been given the all clear after undergoing treatment for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-620800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}