Bret Michaels On His Porn-Induced Brain Hemorrhage

June 13, 2013

He's fine now, but innocently watching "Busty Cops 3" almost led to disaster.

TranscriptCONAN: So good to see you again. How are you? BRET: Thank you very much. I'm doing awesome. How are you? It's great to see you. CONAN: It's great to see you. You went through such a crazy experience. You had a brain hemorrhage a while back and you recovered from it and you're doing great. I was just curious -- you hear about something so dramatic. Paint that picture. When you had the brain hemorrhage where were you? How did it all happen? BRET: I was sitting on my couch. I wish it was a much more dramatic story. My daughters had just gone to sleep and I'm watching the MLB channel. This is in April so baseball is just kicking up. They were having a break and I switched over two channels and this is no lie -- I was watching "cops 3," to protect and serve" had come on. One of the channels I surfed through. And I paused for a second for a commercial break. CONAN: No, no, no -- you paused. You were watching major league baseball and then you switched over and let's just say there's some porn there and you stopped there for a second. BRET: Accidentally. And that's one of the last visions I had was an awful, awful soft core something or another. CONAN: And that's where it happened? BRET: In between there and MLB something went awry and it was horrific. CONAN: Oh, my god, I hope you switched back between -- BRET: That was my only concern. CONAN: Hey. Well, you recovered. Thank god for that. You're doing great and now you have this show. This comes from a place of real passion for you. I'm told R.V.ing is something that you feel strongly about. You grew up R.V.ing, is that right? BRET: I did. Both sides of my family, that's all we did. Take the R.V.s out and go camping and fishing. It's one of the things I love. I love being out on the open road and I always tell people if you want to know the character of a person, go on a road trip with them and you'll either love them and bond for life or you'll never speak to each other again. CONAN: Right. When you're on the road with somebody it amps everything up 15 times. BRET: And the journaly is within the journey, not just the destination. I happen to love it but it has truly been -- taking that as a passion as a child and taking that in my professional life. CONAN: You're starting out, your early days, poison. You're on the road. You must have had band aids before you graduated to tour buses, right? BRET: We went from beat-up cars to an old ambulance band and then we got to the win baga R.V. CONAN: And you can go to -- you would go to show to show in an R.V.? BRET: Everywhere. Trying to play music and -- poison was one of the first bands to have an independent record that broke the million sales mark. I remember being on the road doing that and the next thing you know we finally got to a real tour bus and motor coach. CONAN: What was the most decadent tour bus you had? When the money came in I'll bet you guys got a crazy tour bus. BRET: Yeah, we moved up to a crazy tour bus. You want to put in the Jacuzzi hot tub and stripper pole and all this stuff. CONAN: Nobody here went yep, that's what I would do. Stripper pole, I would be thinking oh, you'd have a bar or something like that. Are strippers there in the bus? BRET: No, your hope is that there's going to be. CONAN: It's like you put tout birdhouse and maybe the birds come. [applause] What are you doing putting up a stripper pole? Wait and see what shows up. BRET: That didn't function very well. So they quickly got rid of that. None of the birds came. Quickly got rid of the bird cage and we got a bar, which I was positive that none of the glass that you put in there while you were moving would stop. That didn't pan out well so I have a quick learning curve and I've learned to build much more functional and fun R.V.s since then.

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