Sum 41 singer: If I have one drink, ‘I will die’

The lead singer of rock band Sum 41 has confessed: “If I have one drink the docs say I will die.”

Deryck Whibley, who was married to singer Avril Lavigne, wrote the grave warning on his website where he posted a picture of himself sleeping on a hospital bed and being tended to by doctors, Rolling Stone reported.

He has spent a month in the hospital after years of heavy drinking collapsed his liver and kidney.

“The reason I got so sick is from all the hard boozing I’ve been doing over the years,” Whibley wrote. “It finally caught up to me.”

Lavigne’s ex-husband, they married in 2006 and divorced in 2010, was rushed to the hospital by his fiancée after he collapsed at his home.

“I was drinking hard every day. Until one night. I was sitting at home, poured myself another drink around midnight and was about to watch a movie when all of a sudden I didn’t feel so good,” Whibley wrote in the letter titled “Rock Bottom.”

“I then collapsed to the ground unconscious. My fiancée got me rushed to the hospital where they put me into the intensive care unit.

“I was stuck with needles and i.v.’s all over. I was completely sedated the first week. When I finally woke up the next day I had no idea where I was.

“My mom and stepdad were standing over me. I was so freaked out. My liver and kidney’s collapsed on me. Needless to say it scared me straight.

“I finally realized I can’t drink anymore. If I have one drink the docs say I will die. I’m not preaching or anything but just always drink responsibly. I didn’t, and look where that got me.”

Sum 41’s last album, Screaming Bloody Murder, was released in 2011.

Whibley said the stay in intensive care has given him ideas for songs on a new album he hopes to release before touring again.

This article originally appeared on News.com.au.