Hollywood and music legends look to be pouring cash right into a fundraiser for New York Dolls singer and Saturday Evening Reside alum David Johansen, who’s battling mind most cancers.
Martin Scorsese, Colin Jost, Sony Music’s Rob Stringer, Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, Hipgnosis Tune Fund’s Merck Mercuriadis, the George Lopez Basis and extra notable names seem on an inventory of donations made to Johansen’s Candy Aid Musician’s Fund, which supplies monetary help to artists scuffling with well being challenges.
“David is a legend however he’s additionally my very actual very sick dad,” Johansen’s daughter, Leah Hennessy, shared in an Instagram Story on Monday. The assertion got here in partnership with the Johansen’s Candy Aid web page reveals he has been in therapy for stage 4 most cancers “for a lot of the previous decade.”
On the fund’s donations web page, Scorsese (who directed the 2022 Johansen documentary Character Disaster), the George Lopez Basis, Greg Whiteley, Ira Levy, Andrew Douglas, Craig Campbell, Yul Vasquez, R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Kenny Candy and Lenny Kaye are listed as having donated funds starting from $250 to $1,000. Mike Doughty from the band Soul Coughing gave $2,500 and Jost gave $5,000.
Although Hennessy didn’t specify her father’s prognosis, she famous that his sickness progressed to a mind tumor about 5 years in the past and that “there have been issues ever since.”
“He’s by no means made his prognosis public, as he and my mom Mara are usually very non-public individuals, however we really feel compelled to share this now, as a result of more and more extreme monetary burden our household is going through,” Hennessy wrote. “To make issues worse, the day after Thanksgiving, David fell down the steps and broke his again in two locations.”
Johansen additionally supplied an announcement to Rolling Stone, saying, “We’ve been dwelling with my sickness for a very long time, nonetheless having enjoyable, seeing family and friends, carrying on, however this tumble the day after Thanksgiving actually introduced us to an entire new degree of debilitation. That is the worst ache I’ve ever skilled in my complete life. I’ve by no means been one to ask for assist, however that is an emergency. Thanks.”
It’s unclear how a lot Johansen’s fund has raised. The location specifies that monies will probably be used for “full-time nursing, bodily remedy and funding for day after day important dwelling bills.”
