Slipknot's Sid Wilson Says 'My Face Is Basically Melted' After Bonfire Explosion: 'I've Had Better Days'

Slipknot musician Sid Wilson was hospitalized and suffered severe burns after pouring gas on leftover debris from a bonfire

Slipknot’s Sid Wilson is giving fans a health update while recovering from a bonfire explosion.

The musician, 47, spoke to Fox News about his progress in the hospital after suffering severe burns last week.

"My whole right arm is bandaged up, half of my left arm. My face is basically melted from nose down. But the swelling's gone down, and they said the face is kind of amazing that it's regenerative — it happens real fast, seems to heal quickly," he told the outlet. "I’ve had better days, I guess, but I’m alive, so I’m doing good."

Wilson explained that the accident happened when working on a wood burn pile on a farm at his Iowa property, where he lives with girlfriend Kelly Osbourne and their 2-year-old son Sidney.

"A few nights ago, I lit it and let it burn down,” he explained. “So, the next day, I went to check it to see, you know, how much was left, if anything. And there was a certain amount of debris around the side still left, so I, like a dummy, [did] what I'm not supposed to do, but I added some gas to it."

The artist said he couldn’t find a long branch to light the debris from far away so he made an impulse decision that caused his injuries.

“My lack of patience got the better of me, and I was like, screw it. I'll be alright, you know?” he recalled. “And I squatted down and reached out and lit it, and it just, it was really humid out so there was still a lot of vapors lingering around in there, and it just … woof. Exploded.”

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Wilson quickly went to the house to get Osbourne and the family rushed to an urgent care before being transferred to a larger hospital in Des Moines.

"They basically dressed the wounds and put all of this fake scab [stuff] all over [my] body until they could get to the burn unit and they could take the scabs off," he said, noting that he was transferred again to another hospital in Iowa City.

The rocker has been back and forth between the home and the hospital recovering, and said he’s surprisingly kept high spirits throughout the ordeal. "I'll say I have a pretty good attitude about it," he added.

However, Wilson admitted the “hardest part” of his accident is the fact that it was easily avoidable.

"I’m not going to let it get me depressed. The hardest part is just feeling stupid for doing it,” he told the outlet. “It’s not even the physical part. It's like going, ‘Oh, man, I really learned that the hard way.’ I’ve got to make sure I just slow down sometimes and really examine the situation before I just dive in headfirst."

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