Many need to know what occurred to Sid Wilson, the DJ for heavy steel band Slipknot, after he launched footage and movies of burns on his face. Additionally the boyfriend of Kelly Osbourne, the 47-year-old turntablist goes by #0 within the band. By way of numerous interviews and several other posts on his Instagram, the place he’s higher often called @sidthe3rd, WIlson reveals how he somewhat embarrassingly received the burn scars throughout his face and arms.
How did Sid Wilson get facial burns?
WIlson acquired burns on his face attributable to a bonfire explosion after he tried mild a wooden burn pile of particles with gasoline. He says that his face, in consequence, was “mainly melted from nostril down.”
Because the DJ defined in an interview with Fox Information Digital, he was at his farm in Iowa, the place he lives with Kelly and their son Sidney, when he determined to test on the pile he let burn down over a number of days. “There was a specific amount of particles across the aspect nonetheless left,” he stated, “So I, like a dummy, [did] what I’m not imagined to do, however I added some gasoline to it.”
Wilson knew that he ought to have used a protracted department to mild the pile, however his “lack of persistence” received the higher of him. He selected to squad down close to the particles and light-weight it, with out realizing that a number of the leftover gasoline was nonetheless within the neighborhood. He explains, “it was actually humid out so there was nonetheless lots of vapors lingering round in there, and it simply… woof. Exploded.”
Fortuitously, Wilson was nonetheless capable of attain his dwelling the place Osbourne was and he was rushed to a hospital in Des Moines. Docs bandaged each of his arms and had been capable of deal with his burns, which has healed properly over a number of days of restoration. Whereas he’s not “depressed” over what occurred, he says “the toughest half is simply feeling silly for doing it.”
