Mark Hoppus Performs Live For 1st Time Since Beating Cancer

Mark Hoppus performed live on stage this week for the first time since January 2020 – and almost one year after he told fans he beat cancer.

The 50-year-old musician joined Beauty School Dropout to perform their collaboration “Almost Famous,” which appears on the L.A. band’s debut album We Made Plans & God Laughed.

On Thursday, Beauty School Dropout retweeted a fan-shot video clip of Hoppus singing with them on stage.

😌😌😌 https://t.co/R015d1y1s2

— BEAUTY SCHOOL DROPOUT (@bsd_wav) August 18, 2022

Hoppus announced in June 2021 that he was three months into chemotherapy treatments after being diagnosed with cancer (which he later said 4-A diffuse large B-cell lymphoma).

In a new interview with People, the blink-182 singer/bassist admitted it was a dark time. “I was in our living room crying and telling my wife, ‘I don’t know if I can do this.’ She was like, ‘Well, what are you going to do, kill yourself?’ And that’s exactly what I was thinking,” he said.

Hoppus said before starting chemo he reconnected with Tom DeLonge, who left blink-182 in 2015, and drummer Travis Barker.

“There were no lingering grudges,” he recalled. “It felt very back to what it should be: three friends sitting in a room.”

Hoppus gave fans hope for a reunion. “I’m open to whatever the next phase of blink is.”