“I have cancer,” he wrote. “It’s been horrible and I’m scared, and at the same time I’m lucky to have the incredible doctors, family and friends to help me get through this.”
During a Twitch live stream in July 2021, Mark shared that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. “My cancer has nothing to do with bones. it has to do with blood,” he said in a clip shared by YouTube account Blink-182 Chile. “My blood is trying to kill me.”
He expanded further on the mental and physical harm his illness has taken in a December 2021 interview with GQ.
“I had a really dark time after I found out,” he said. “I went through this whole phase like, no why mebut Of course it’s me. Why not me? We’ve had a lot of luck and luck, and things have been in a special place for me for a long time, which of course I’m due. I suffered something tragic. ”
He describes chemotherapy as “like being on the worst international night flight where you can’t sleep or feel comfortable”, but notes he can find solace in talking to his mother her, who had previously defeated the same type of cancer.
“She’s been my biggest resource all this time,” he told the outlet. “Nobody knows what it’s like except for some people who’ve been through chemotherapy.”
