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Blake Judd Gives First Interview in Two Years: "I Had So Many Opportunities to Get Better, but I Was Convinced That I Was Special"

The controversial Nachtmystium frontman has resurfaced after two years of addiction, death, and homelessness.

Blake Judd is back.

Argentina's Jedbangers Magazine​has posted the first part of what looks to be an extensive three-part audio interview with the former Nachtmystium frontman. This marks the first time Judd has spoken to the press in two years, breaking a silence that began back in 2014 after he became embroiled in controversy. The crippling extent of his addiction became public, his former label, Century Media, dropped​ him, and most egregiously​, he was caught running a series of scams ripping off his fans.

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The interview itself is full of illuminating quotes about Judd's fall from grace and downward spiral, including this one about Judd's mindset in the throes of his addiction. "If I was a 'rockstar,' in my mind, it made it my divine right to be all fucked up on drugs—that's a rockstar's divine right, to be a drug addict."​

His former bandmate (and former friend) Neill Jameson wrote a

scathing condemnation

​ of Judd's actions for Noisey back in 2014, which Judd also references in the interview.

"Now, I will say this: thirty to forty percent of what is in that article​ is not true. He didn't need to say the things that weren't true or fabricate things the way he did, and only he and i will ever know whats really true in there. I don't think anybody would ever believe me, saying, of course he would want to deny that, but he straight up made up stuff that didn't happen, and i don't understand why he did, because the things that did happen, that he did mention, are terrible enough that he didn't need to exaggerate.

But in a weird way, Neill, who was my best friend for 12 years, Neill kind of saved my life by writing that, because all the shit I read written about me by strangers online, they were just like the people I stole money from online—they're an email address, they're a name on a screen, they're not a real person, which is why I was able to do what I did to the fans. I could never take money from a fan who was standing right in front of me, much like I've never shoplifted," he says. "…but if you're just an email address, you're not really a person standing in front of me, I don't have to look you in your eyes and lie to you, its basically the most cowardly way to take from anybody, if you think about it."