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Bret Michaels Calls Tony Statements “Irresponsible”

6/12/09, 9:00 am EST

Photo: Kambouris/WireImage
Poison’s Bret Michaels has finally released an official statement following his accident at Sunday’s Tony Awards, where he slammed his head on a stage prop during a performance of “Nothin’ But a Good Time” with the cast of Rock of Ages. “In hindsight, there is no doubt I got my bell rung, unfortunately it has been posted and perhaps funny to watch, but I can assure you it has been painful to experience,” Michaels writes on his MySpace blog. Reiterating his reps’ statement, Michaels said he wasn’t told about the moving set piece at his morning rehearsal, or that he had limited time to clear the stage “Otherwise believe me I would have stopped or at least ducked so as not to be knocked out at the Tonys.” Michaels suffered a fractured nose and busted lip from the collision.

Immediately following impact, “My nose, mouth and the back of my head felt numb,” Michaels writes. “I vaguely remember asking [bodyguard] Big John, ‘do I have any teeth left in my mouth?’ … Somebody handed me a towel to wipe the blood from my face and in my dazed state I recall staring at what seemed to be Shrek, a talking goat head and several monkey like creatures.” Michaels later thanks Liza Minnelli and Ugly Betty star Mark Indelicato for checking on his condition in the dressing room.

Michaels writes that he doesn’t believe the accident was “malicious,” but found the Tonys’ public statements that he was uninjured and merely “missed his mark” were “irresponsible.” “First, I thought, ‘what mark?’ as there was no official mark,” Bret writes. “No matter what the situation was the prop should have been stopped or at least slowed for a few more seconds until I cleared the stage … For God sake, they have at least a five second delay to prevent the airing of unapproved expletives and nudity!”

Michaels’ biggest regret — besides missing the remainder of the Tonys and the rest of the performances, admitting he’d never been to a Broadway show in his life — was skipping the afterparties, “Cuz rumor has it Anne Hathaway was going to be there and she is hot.” He concludes, “I thank the Good Lord I have a thick skull and I have a feeling this may have been my first and final curtain call at the Tonys,” signing off as “Broadway Bret Michaels.”

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bret | 6/12/2009, 9:55 am EST

seriously dude that thing should have hit u in the voice box so we dont have to hear ur moronic statements or your lousy music anymore!

Brian Gallagher | 6/12/2009, 10:28 am EST

Thank god your fine european hair extensions weren`t damaged. Ladies and Gents this dude is completely bald. He is wearing a “costume”.

EPIC FAILURE.

Kashmir | 6/12/2009, 10:45 am EST

come on. who cares? and it WAS hilarious to watch.

Grow A Pair | 6/12/2009, 10:50 am EST

And quit whining like a bitch.

You missed your mark because you were hogging the spotlight and you paid for it. After all, your bandmembers knew enough to get the hell out of the way.

Now suck it up and take it.

Then go away please – that bandana look is tired … just like your “music”.

marty | 6/12/2009, 10:56 am EST

Bret is probably loving all this publicity.

Props for including the Anne Hathaway quote in the article.

John | 6/12/2009, 10:56 am EST

Overrated to the max. He is washed up and this was the best way for him to get in the news. I thought it was a classic and have watched it over and over.

Anonymous | 6/12/2009, 11:10 am EST

Brett Micheals is such a pussy. He looks like a girl and is acting like one. Poison always sucked anyways. Brett…..fuck off, your a washed up, bald loser.

Bretts wig | 6/12/2009, 11:12 am EST

Brett, your garbage. You look like a girl with your lip gloss and puffy lips and your acting like one. Poison was the worst of the 80’s glam and it’s over for you. Now please go away, your actually hard to look at, I feel sorry for you.

Big Hair Bill | 6/12/2009, 11:25 am EST

Seeing how there have been no real rock bands to come along since 1991, I hope you get better Bret, just to show all these trust-funded, scraggly-beard-wearin’, so-called college educated, tuneless children how to have “Nothin’ But A Good Time”!!!!

d'yerman | 6/12/2009, 12:28 pm EST

I don’t understand why they stopped the set piece at all…

Weegie | 6/12/2009, 12:54 pm EST

I offer one million dollars for the first person to get a shot of Brett a’natural, sans synthetic wig, bandana, and straw cowboy hat. I’ll hang it next to Phil spectors new mugshot sans wig.

I hope... | 6/12/2009, 12:56 pm EST

Big Hair Bill…I hope that comment is your attempt at being a comic…if not, you have successfully become moronic and delusional.

SilverLeMay | 6/12/2009, 2:03 pm EST

I’m glad to hear that Mr. Michaels was not seriously injured…

…but perhaps it was the Theatre Gods exacting their revenge for lip-syncing at the Tonys… I’m just sayin’…

Jaybone | 6/12/2009, 2:08 pm EST

I’m glad Brett Michaels is only a C-list celebrity, cuz if he was an A-lister, his ego would suffocate us all! How could the highly choreographed set movement been stopped for you, Brett? Nobody knew you were gonna take yer sweet time clearing the stage, unlike EVERYBODY else involved in your lip synching number. What an ass!

Jaybone | 6/12/2009, 2:13 pm EST

Oh, and next he’ll say the commenters here are “irresponsible” because most of us are spelling his name incorrectly! Sorry, Bret with one “T”. Ya’ gotta admit though, the gag writer was quick and Harris HAD to say the “headbanging” joke! NOBODY would have passed that up!

Ralph is well you know | 6/12/2009, 4:54 pm EST

I would like to give him a hot lunch

Nathan | 6/12/2009, 7:42 pm EST

Biggest winner in all of this? Anne Hathaway!

Mr. C | 6/12/2009, 9:43 pm EST

Funny as hell it was…pretty sad I’m now one of many who have nothing better to do than waste 15 seconds of my life posting something related to the one, the only, the lamest of the lame, Bret Michaels. (Sigh…)

Mr. C | 6/12/2009, 9:46 pm EST

Ask yourself this…was Bret Michaels doing his cheesy-ass lip-pout when he slammed into the end of the has-been train?

Sorry, just too funny!

Steve | 6/12/2009, 10:37 pm EST

I can’t wait for the youtube remix videos…I’ve watched this video 5 times and still laugh about it throughout the day

weegie | 6/13/2009, 12:36 am EST

Oh booooooooooooooooooy !! I’ve found the Hope Diamond ! Bret was in a low budget film called Letter from Death Row, the trailer is on Youtube, he’s wearing one of his bad wigs most of the scenes…until the end when he has his head shaved to go to The Chair. He’s got that prickly Bruce Willis 3 o’clock head shaved shadow, and folks…….COMPLETELY bald on top. A halo of tiny growth on the sides and back, up top….GONE !!! I’ve just made the greatest discovery in the history of rock and roll ;)

T2 | 6/13/2009, 5:02 am EST

c’mon you’re being too hard on the guy! So he’s bald and wears wigs. But he probably hates it. He’s not a bad guy and a lot easier to watch than Flava Flav…

Hair Metal Sucks | 6/13/2009, 8:27 am EST

If only it had severely injured something other than his ego. Come on, he actually managed to take a relatively funny but shit concept (Flavor Of Love, with all the crazy ghetto girls and white girls who think they’re ghetto) and make it just shit.

Leonardo | 6/13/2009, 6:50 pm EST

I believe that Bret is a gifted musician and great performer, he threw a hell of a show in Brazil back in the 90’s.
Also, his song ”Raine” is beautiful/vibrant.
Really don’t understand why so many losers waste their time trashing him…you don’t have 0,1% of his talent.

anonymous | 6/13/2009, 8:09 pm EST

And the award for 2009’s Biggest Mountain Made From A Mole Hill By A Drama Queen/Has-Been/Shameless Fame Seeker goes to…

charles webster baer | 6/13/2009, 9:38 pm EST

well , if he was not wearing a hat , he would have seen it . and his band mates sure knew where to be and when . but this is the fault of the tony guys , who , well , the tony thing is the gayest thing all year long .

yeah right | 6/14/2009, 2:35 am EST

your old enough to be anne hathaways grandpa

Ed | 6/14/2009, 6:12 am EST

I’m from PA. Sadly he is from Scranton,PA. Well every rose has it’s thorn.

jSiNhArM | 6/14/2009, 10:05 am EST

I read a blog from rock guy Eddie Trunk and in it he says that Poison drummer Rikki Rockett was on his show the Friday night before the Tony’s and Rikki showed Eddie a video on his phone from the rehearsal earlier that night and Brett wasn’t there. Eddie asked Rikki why and he said because Brett was doing a gig with his solo band and went on to say how he was frustrated with Brett because he wasn’t making Poison a commitment. So sounds like Brett didn’t know what to do because he wasn’t at the rehearsal. If I was the other guys in Poison I’d boot his ass for not making Poison his first priority and then making them look silly on TV. I mean, I guess bad publicity is better than no publicity, but still…..

Douche bag! | 6/14/2009, 1:06 pm EST

“Cuz anne hathaway is hot” she wouldn’t give you the time of day you washed up overratted 80’s glam metal hepatisis c carrying perv!

my word | 6/14/2009, 1:23 pm EST

this guy is such a fuckin loser. Such a waste of time. Casino circuit clown. Fuck off you geek.

DrZ | 6/14/2009, 2:04 pm EST

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve Been ripping this guy and Poison with monotonous regularity for 20 years for being pure cheese(along with Bon Jovi), but Tony big wigs are the real scum in this situation.If this had happened to a more current trend star(Beyonce, Clay Aiken, whatever flavor of the month garbage artist you like),the damage control and apologies would be over the top and sickening beyond words.

Anonymous | 6/14/2009, 5:44 pm EST

Oh, for Pete’s sake. It’s called inertia. That’s a half-ton set piece. Bret, you weigh, what, 175 pounds? Which is easier to change directions quickly when something doesn’t go according to plan?

If you’d been at the rehearsal, like all the real, responsible performers, you would have known where your mark was and what you needed to do. Failing that, simple awareness would have told you to GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY.

Stop blaming everyone else for your unprofessionalism.

Fran | 6/14/2009, 5:44 pm EST

Oh, for Pete’s sake. It’s called inertia. That’s a half-ton set piece. Bret, you weigh, what, 175 pounds? Which is easier to change directions quickly when something doesn’t go according to plan?

If you’d been at the rehearsal, like all the real, responsible performers, you would have known where your mark was and what you needed to do. Failing that, simple awareness would have told you to GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY.

Stop blaming everyone else for your unprofessionalism.

BuzzRadio | 6/14/2009, 6:45 pm EST

I’m thinking his 15 minutes of fame was having sex with pamela. after that, who cares….lmao

KMASS | 6/14/2009, 11:23 pm EST

Rolling Stone spent years dismembering Elton John, Queen, Kiss, Billy Joel and more on their magazine. But all of a sudden Brett Michaels and the guy on the cover are worthy of entire articles? No wonder it’s the incredible shrinking magazine!

Jenn | 6/15/2009, 9:48 am EST

bret is an idiot. all his band members were able to get out of the way on time.

Sanchez | 6/15/2009, 9:59 am EST

Brett discovers he’s more irrelevant than he thought.

Rinestone | 6/15/2009, 5:53 pm EST

Hey, to all of the douchebags who want to insult Bret Michaels, you’re probably just jealous cause A. he has more talent then you could dream of having and B. he’s gotten more action in one week than you’ll get in your entire life. As for Bret, I hope you feel better soon and I look forward to seeing you guys in August

J | 6/16/2009, 3:08 am EST

Do they make cowboy hat shaped helmets? Brain damage of love…

From a guy named RINESTONE | 6/16/2009, 4:10 am EST

Your name says it all. Fuck off loser. He is the biggest wastebag, rock retread in the industry. Bret Micheals is garbage. So is his guitarist, quite possibly the worst duo in music history. See you in August, lol, your some 45 yr old dude worshipping a glam clown with fake hair that never was rerspected by any of his music colleagues in the first place. My god.

NeutralLikeSwitzerland | 6/16/2009, 10:55 am EST

I’m not going to defend or rip Bret Michaels. I did meet him–by accident–at the band’s peak in 1990, and he was a really nice guy. I’ve heard it’s a different story when he’s on a solo tour.

But all this crap about his hair; it’s getting old. I remember reading something somewhere with one of the “Rock of Love” girls, and she said his hair is very real. She even pulled on it a little, and it wouldn’t come out. Give it a rest already.

TC | 6/17/2009, 9:54 pm EST

I’m glad he is OK, lets move on and stop the blame game. Were at War, the economy is in the toilet, and Obama caught a fly. Time to move on people. Glad Brett is OK

Lynne | 6/17/2009, 9:59 pm EST

I came out of the backdoor of a record store, turned to talk to my two friends and turned back and ran my face smack into a poll. I laughed so hard, and almost walked straight into the street, out of pure embarrassment. There were a line of workers eating their lunch by the wall. Talk about feeling silly.

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