What was mikey addicted to

I was trying to stay up and I was failing. I had always self-soothed through narcotics from an early age. Thankfully, Mikey sought treatment and came out the other side much healthier and happier. Also, interestingly, Way revealed that MCR hadn't initially intended to break up - at first, they all just wanted to take a break:. We initially thought it was going to be a break, then we all did some soul-searching and decided, 'No, this is definitely the end. In the months prior I had come to realize that my addiction was far past me being able to beat it alone.

In all honesty, at that point I was lucky to be alive. I have talked about sobriety in the past but frankly it was all just wishful thinking, I could talk with the best of them but now it's time to do the real work or as they say in the program, "walk the walk". Physically entering the rehab facility was one of the most terrifying yet rewarding things I have ever done.

Getting onstage and playing in front of tens of thousands of people used to be the most frightening thing for me, but getting the help I knew I needed made that look relaxing.

During my 31 plus days of treatment, I learned a lot about myself and a lot about what I needed to do to never go back down that path I had been stumbling upon. I had been self medicating for more than half my life. And as the band grew, so did the introduction of more drugs and more alcohol. When the band broke up, my using had intensified and I fell into total darkness.

In the true form of an addict, I disconnected from everyone I knew and pushed away every one I loved. At that point in my life, I was not only lost but in complete self-destruction mode. In February, I was told I should never have woken up. Electric Century started because I still had something I wanted to share with the world. Despite living on opposite coasts, Mikey and Dave remain thick as thieves. Now, he's a notably more chipper character than the one portrayed in his MCR days, peppering his stories with a lively giggle and an almost childlike enthusiasm.

His relationship with Dave kick-started at a pre-MCR barbecue held by Dave's brother Marc former owner of MCR's first record label, Eyeball , where the pair bonded immediately over a mutual love of new wave, post-punk, and Britpop. A full-hearted embrace of those early influences, it's a who's-who of late 80s references, sweeping through sultry pop and onto the grittier gloom of new wave. With that joint dream of being Simon Le Bon come to fruition, you can hear the pair's half a lifetime of shared experience throughout—every twist and turn feels like second nature, evidence of a semi-telepathic bond between the two friends.

Before all that could form, though, Mikey hit crisis point. The effects of spending several life-changing years in one of the world's biggest rock bands and the major label "machine" that comes with it began to manifest.

Long-standing drug use and a relentless schedule came to a head with the dissolution of My Chemical Romance in Unable to find an off-switch when things went from to nil, Mikey instead threw himself into his sidelined project without a moment's pause.

Struggling with overdoses and failing relationships throughout MCR's latter years, Mikey nevertheless insisted he still had so much to say, but launching straight into Electric Century only exacerbated the problems he was trying to ignore. It took Dave's intervention to finally drag Mikey out of the shadows. Calling him out to the East Coast in February on the pretence of a recording session, Dave instead spent the time during Mikey's flight phoning every local rehab facility to find one that'd take his friend in.

We're going to rehab'," Dave says. Mikey didn't put up a fight. He was in full agreement that shit needed to change. And so on the day Electric Century were granted their first magazine cover by Alternative Press , Mikey covertly checked himself into a month-plus stint in rehab. What followed was a steady road to recovery.