Slipknot DJ and keyboardist Sid Wilson told fans in an Instagram video posted on Friday that he had suffered an “explosion in my face” and which gave him “some serious burns in my face and my arms.”
Wilson reassured viewers, “I’m okay. I’m going to be okay,” before revealing that he had been “out working on the farm” attempting to start a bonfire. The fire exploded, Wilson explained, “this is why you don’t f— with burn piles.”
Kelly Osbourne, his girlfriend and mother to their one-year-old son Sidney, followed up with another video from the hospital on Friday, explaining, “he literally set himself on fire—exploded everything.”
Owen Lavine is a senior journalism student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, a breaking news reporter at The Daily Beast, and an intern reporter for the San Luis Obispo Tribune.
This article was originally published on The Daily Beast and partially republished here, with permission.
