Bad Wolves' frontman Tommy Vext has opened up about being bullied as a kid. In an interview with the High Notes podcast, Vext said that he was bullied due to his race and weight. He explained, “I was a fat kid and I used to get teased and made fun of for being fat and I grew up—I’m also mixed race and it was not socially acceptable in the ’90s and early 2000s to be mixed race—so I got bullied until I grew into my body. “
He continued, “I used to get picked on. I used to get held down and kids would burn me with cigarettes and lighters and call me the n-word. I never forgot any of that.”
He added, “Most of those people, I got… When I was sixteen I joined the gym and met some guys and they taught me how to work out and I basically kept tabs and beat the sh*t out of anybody that ever f*cked with me as a kid—and pretty violently, I broke some people’s faces… Anger has always been a pretty dark passenger that I struggled with until I got into recovery.”