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The bassist told sheriff’s deputies he may have fainted or passed out while driving in Malibu<\/p>\n
\n\tKiss\u2019 Gene Simmons is recovering at home after crashing into a parked car while driving in Malibu Tuesday, Oct. 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tAccording to NBC 4 Los Angeles, the accident occurred before 1 p.m. local time on a stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway. Simmons reportedly told deputies from the Los Angeles Sheriff\u2019s department that he passed out or fainted while driving a Lincoln Navigator. His wife, Shannon Tweed, said the car passed through several lanes of traffic before hitting the parked vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tTweed said that Simmons was taken to the hospital to be checked out, and then sent home to continue his recovery. She suggested the incident may have been tied to a recent change in Simmons\u2019 medication, and his need to drink more water (which he apparently doesn\u2019t like to do).\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tSimmons also reportedly shared a voicemail with NBC 4 in which he said he was doing fine. A rep for Simmons echoed the sentiment, telling Rolling Stone<\/em>, \u201cMr. Simmons is totally fine from this minor fender bender.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSimmons does have a busy few months coming up. In November, there will be a Kiss reunion of sorts when Simmons, Paul Stanley, and \u201cspecial guests\u201d perform an \u201cunmasked\u201d electric concert at a three-day Vegas event called Kiss Army Storms Vegas. (This show comes just two years after the band played their so-called \u201cFinal Concert\u201d and Simmons insisted they were done.)\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tThen, in December, Kiss will receive this year\u2019s Kennedy Center Honors at the first ceremony since President Donald Trump took over the institution. While former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley supported Trump in 2020, Simmons hasn\u2019t always had the kindest things to say about the president\u2019s political career. However, that apparently wasn\u2019t enough to dissuade Trump from bestowing the honor upon the bassist.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAfter the band was announced as a recipient, though, Simmons said in a statement, \u201cKiss is the embodiment of the American dream. We are deeply honored to receive the Kennedy Center Honor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The bassist told sheriff’s deputies he may have fainted or passed out while driving in Malibu Kiss\u2019 Gene Simmons is recovering at home after crashing into a parked car while driving in Malibu Tuesday, Oct. 7.\u00a0 According to NBC 4 Los Angeles, the accident occurred before 1 p.m. local time on a stretch of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1495,1872,1406,3941,16056,16055,16054],"class_list":{"0":"post-26802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-car","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-gene","11":"tag-kiss","12":"tag-malibu","13":"tag-recovering","14":"tag-simmons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n