“This is the hardest six weeks that I’ve ever had,” Malin said.

Per aRolling Stoneinterview with the 56 year old musician, he is currently recovering in a rehabilitation center.

The musician says was surrounded by friends at the time of the stroke.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 20: Jesse Malin attends “Punk & Beyond: Legends of the Lower East Side” on April 20, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images for MOSCOT )

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He later learned that he had suffered a rare spinal-cord infarction.

“This is the hardest six weeks that I’ve ever had,” Malin said.

But I keep saying to myself that I can make this happen.

I can recover my body."

“It’s going to take a lot of work and a lot of being in a wheelchair.

There’s something liberating about the truth, that this is what’s happening to me right now.”