Steve Harwell, burned highly across the universe before burning out. The old singer from Smash Mouth, Steve Harwell, is now in a special place where they take care of people who are very sick and close to passing away.
According to a talk with his manager that TMZ mentioned, he only has about a week left to live because his liver is not working well anymore. Steve Harwell, who is 56 years old, had a long battle with drinking too much alcohol throughout his life. He had gone to the hospital before to get treatment for his liver, but sadly, the sickness had gotten much worse, as his manager explained.
His loved ones and buddies came to his house, where he had been getting special care for the last three days because he was in the very last stage of liver failure, as said by his manager.
Steve Harwell had a long-standing health crisis
The information about his declining health comes almost two years after he said he was quitting the band. The band started back in the 1990s and made famous songs like “All-Star,” “Walkin’ on the Sun,” and a version of the Monkees’ song “I”‘m a Believer.” Some of these songs were in the movie “Shrek.”
Harwell chose to stop being the main singer of the band after a bad performance at a music festival in upstate New York. During that show, he talked unclearly, scared the audience, and made crude signs to the fans.
Someone who knows the singer well mentioned that he had one of his “episodes” connected to his ongoing health problems while he was on stage. Harwell was told he had cardiomyopathy ten years ago and has had heart problems and acute Wernicke encephalopathy since then.
The latter health problem has made it hard for him to move and talk properly, and it has also made his memory worse. The Post newspaper said that a lot of his health issues were because of the addictions he had over the years.
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Steve Harwell’s music career
Greg Camp started a band called Smash Mouth with Steve Harwell, Kevin Coleman, and Paul De Lisle. Before joining Smash Mouth, Steve Harwell used to be a rapper in a group called F.O.S. In 2016, he was part of the cast in the sixth season of a VH1 reality show called “The Surreal Life.”
He has also been on other TV and radio shows and had a small part in the 2001 movie Rat Race. Most people know him for the song “All-Star”.
Steve Harwell also sang two songs, “Beside Me” and “Everything Just Crazy,” for a cartoon movie from South Korea and China called Pororo, The Racing Adventure, in 2013. Then, during a Smash Mouth show in Urbana, Illinois, on August 27, 2016, Steve Harwell fell down on the stage and had to go to the hospital in an ambulance. The band finished the concert without him, and Paul De Lisle sang instead.
In October 2021, the band played at a festival with beer and wine at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, New York. During the show, Steve Harwell seemed to be drunk, scared the audience, and did a feature that looked like a salute linked to Nazi symbols.
After that concert, Steve Harwell said he was retiring because of his ongoing health problems.
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