The Bad Seeds musician, 66, has lost two children in the last 10 years.In 2015, his son Arthur, 15, died after taking LSD for the first time, before falling almost 20 metres from a cliff near his home in Brighton, Englan
In 2022 his son Jethro, 32, who had schizophrenia and battled drug addiction, died in Melbourne two days after he was released from jail and two months after violently assaulting his own mother.
In a promo for ABC’s Australian Story, the musician told interviewer Leigh Sales that he no longer values art above all else after burying his two sons.
‘That idea that art trounces everything, it just doesn’t apply to me anymore,’ he confessed.
Later in the clip, as he delves into the topic of his sons further, he begins to choke up.
‘I’m sorry this is actually quite difficult to talk about,’ he said as the emotion overcame him.
Nick Cave has opened up about tragic death of his two sons. The Bad Seeds musician, 66, has lost two children in the last 10 years. Pictured with wife Susie Cave
Speaking to Leigh Sales on Australian Story this week, the 66-year-old musician was visibly upset as he discussed the deaths of his sons Arthur, 15, in 2015 and Jethro, 32, in 2022
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