Jaden Hossler, in a vulnerable post, talks about his mental health after the death of his best friend, Cooper Noriega. He opened up about the devastating loss of his “soulmate”, Cooper Noriega, who died at age 19 in 2022. He posted a lengthy video on TikTok Sunday to update his 9 million followers on his mental health. Hossler specifically spoke on how he coped with the death of his best friend, fellow TikToker Cooper Noriega, who died in June 2022.
In the nearly 9-minute video, he describes the emotional turmoil he faced for nearly two years. Many of the details he included he had previously kept private. He said he has not publicly discussed Noriega’s death because he has not “really known what to say.” He also admitted that he “got mad” when people commented on it but has since realized “everybody deals with stuff in different ways.”
Hossler shared that before Noriega’s death, he was “on a high” and “at the top of my life” after spending the first half of 2022 opening for Machine Gun Kelly on tour. The death left him devastated, and he landed up in rehab in the wake of his best friend’s death.
Until recently, he had not spoken about what he had gone through since he lost Cooper. He said that he turned to alcohol and drugs to cope. “I fell into drugs and drinking,” he said, revealing his abuse of substances “hit an all-time high.”
“Honestly guys, I fell apart. I lost myself – it wasn’t just the drugs and the drinking. I lost my soulmate. Cooper was my soulmate. I loved him more than anybody.”
“More and more time went by, and good things would happen… I was doing some cool things, but I just started to deteriorate. I lost my passion for music, I lost my passion for everything. I lost my will to live in a lot of instances.”
But treatment is a viable option even when things hit rock bottom. Hossler finally decided it was quite enough. And then he decided to take the step. He went to a hospital after a trip to the UK went bad fast.
The singer himself admits that he thought he was going completely crazy at the time. Thus, he decided to seek professional help. The rehab facility in San Diego helped him come out of the blue funk a lot.
In the video, he talked about how he has now come out of his addiction and now that he wants to join back to his normal life. His loss would never be filled back but he needs to drive back to normalcy. Without the video, his fans would have stayed in the dark about his life and all that took place in the last couple of years. The video is a trip back to his rough years in the addiction phase and how his life was on the brink of destruction.
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