Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley Talks Near-Death Experience, Learning to Walk and Live Again
Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley is sitting on the back of the bus at the Warped Tour in Pomona, Calif., when we walk back to meet him. In 2014, roughly five years after his split from first wife Avril Lavigne, Whibley nearly died from years of excessive partying and alcoholism, winding up in an induced coma suffering from liver and kidney failure. DERYCK WHIBLEY: Yeah, I had liver and kidney failure and ended up in the hospital.