Flea Reveals ‘Bizarre Peeing Accident’ Behind Recent Injury

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has cleared up the mystery behind his recent injury, and it’s nowhere near as dramatic as it first sounded.

After posting a battered selfie over the weekend, complete with facial scratches and a bandaged head, fans were left guessing what went down with Flea, turns out, the truth is far less rock ‘n’ roll and way more human.

Not quite a street fight

Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Flea initially spun a wild story about taking on a group of attackers (per NME).

“You know, I’m very trained in martial arts my whole life. [I studied] Wang Chung,” he said. “I charged them. A flurry of flying kicks, round kicks. I jumped up into a tree, did a backflip off the last guy. And they’re all lying there on the ground — Whimpering, crying, moaning, begging for mercy. At that moment, I realized that I had suffered a little nick, but justice had been done.”

Then he pulled the rug out.

The real story

“I made that story up,” Flea admitted, before revealing what actually happened.

“I was doing a radio show for Apple Music the other day. I was playing a Lee Morgan song, a great song called ‘Stopstart’ with Billy Higgins on drums,” he explained. “Three minutes left in the song and I said ‘I got to go pee.’ So, I have three minutes before I introduce the next tune.

“I jump up, I run down the hallway, I pee, I’m coming back. I’m wearing my reading glasses. I yell something to someone, running full sprint down the hallway, and bam! Smack into a glass door, flat on my back, blood spurting out of my head. I’m laying there, and I’m going, ‘Oh man, I’ve got to do the Fallon Show in a few days… I’ll tell him I got in a fight.’”

Flea on Fallon

Owning it

Flea didn’t stop there, leaning fully into the moment with a level of honesty that only he could get away with:

“But, strangely enough, this is not my first peeing accident. I want you to know that I peed the bed until I was 11 or 12 years old. Caused me no shortage of embarrassment… I just want to let you know, all of you out there in TV land, all you bedwetters, I am one of you. You are not alone… I know the embarrassment, I know the pain, I know the lack of self-esteem. And to bedwetters, I want you to know, you can be a bedwetter and you can make it all the way to the Jimmy Fallon motherf*cking show!”

For a guy who’s spent decades, it tracks that the most chaotic moment this week happened offstage, sprinting straight into a glass door, classic Flea.

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