Former Mushroomhead singer Jeffrey Hatrix shared his cancer diagnosis on Facebook months after his wife’s death.
“I really wanted to keep this to myself. I was diagnosed a couple months ago,” the vocalist revealed in his post. “It will be very hard to continue working with the treatment path I have chosen. Thank You for anything you can do to help. I know everyone is going through a lot.”
Jeffrey’s daughter, Mea, started a GoFundMe campaign for him, writing, “My dad has recently been diagnosed with Cancer, just months after losing my mom to the same thing. Due to this, he may have to stop working during his treatment. Anything means everything, Thank you.”
Jeffrey’s wife, Stacy, passed away in April 2024 after battling cancer, as Duke Funeral Home reported. She was just 38.
Last August, Jeffrey sued Mushroomhead’s drummer and producer, Steve ‘Skinny’ Felton, for not paying him royalties and copyright infringement. “Most of the performing arts copyright registrations were registered as Stephen Felton being the copyright claimant,” the lawsuit obtained by Blabbermouth read.
It went on to say, “And, although on many songs [Hatrix] was given proper credit for his participation in creating said works, there seems to be no record of mechanical royalty payments stemming from these performing arts registrations.”
“Felton’s actions … became more nefarious, including the doctoring of publishing splits giving Skinny (Felton) double pay under 2 names ‘Tenafly Viper’ and just plain ‘Steve Felton,’ along with 30% going to him under ‘unknown publicist’ and ‘unknown writer,'” said the lawsuit about the time before Hatrix left Mushroomhead.
The lawsuit noted, “In fact, most of the publishing splits seem to have disappeared as plaintiff has not received any mechanical royalties to speak of for several years at least.”
“Although the money coming increased, plaintiff was apparently receiving pennies on the dollar,” the lawsuit also explained. “[Hatrix] was paid an ‘allowance’ $1,200 per week per, per tour. In fact, plaintiff was paid almost nothing beyond this and is due his publishing and other, royalties, income from touring, sales and royalties from film media, along with loss from other sources of income to be determined.”
Hatrix left Mushroomhead in March 2018. He wrote or co-wrote 148 songs with the band.
