Alice Cooper told the Arizona Republic that he and his wife, Sheryl, both came down with COVID-19 last December. “We were wiped out,” the 73-year-old singer said. “We didn’t have to go to the hospital or anything like that. But I lost 15 pounds. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t eat. Now, I’m feeling pretty good. I’m feeling like I’m at least 95%.”
After the initial sickness, “every day you feel two percent better,” he said. “Then you get a little bit better, the next day a little bit better, until finally, you’re going, ‘Oh, wait a minute, I feel almost normal now.’ But it does take it out of you. I mean, it’s like pneumonia. It takes a while to get your sea legs back under you.”
Alice has since been fully vaccinated in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. He told SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” about the experience: “I hate shots. I hate needles more than anything else. And I never felt either shot; it was the most painless thing I’d ever felt in my life. And the second shot, 12 hours later, I went, ‘Oh, man. This is nothing.’ I got the chills for about two hours. I was under blankets for two [hours], and then it was gone. That was it.
“The funny thing about it was I was watching the people getting the shot, and I didn’t even see a grimace,” he added. “I didn’t see even that. And I went, ‘How are these people not reacting?’ There was an old lady getting a shot, and see didn’t even [flinch]. And I said, ‘Man, am I that big of a wimp?’ [Laughs]”
Alice and his wife got the COVID-19 vaccine through Team Rubicon, a nonprofit organization that pairs military veterans with first responders to help in times of need.
In March 2020, Cooper told Arizona Republic that he felt “less vulnerable” in his house than he does in a different hotel every day. “You don’t know who’s been there, what they’ve touched,” he explained. “When I was in Europe, I spent all day doing Purell, washing my hands. Every time you would touch something, you’d realize ‘Well, how do you know that wasn’t infected?'”
As to whether he was concerned about the possibility of contracting COVID-19, Cooper told Arizona Republic at the time: “I’m not scared of this thing. … But you’ve got to consider everybody. You never know what the guy next door’s health problems are.”
Alice‘s new studio album, “Detroit Stories”, was released in February via earMUSIC.
