Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus has said the band are going through a “friendly divorce” with guitarist Tom DeLonge.
Speaking in a recent interview, Hoppus said: “We are right now going through what so far has been a friendly divorce with our former guitarist. Hopefully things clear up and it doesn’t get all managery and lawyery and all that and we can move forward.”
“Tom and I have had a troubled back and forth relationship since forever,” added Hoppus in his recent podcast interview.
“Tom was my best friend for years and years and the thing is if you think about the people that you were friends with at the end of high school and the beginning of college…how many of those people are you still friends with? …We’ve been in the same van and bus and aeroplane and backstage room and stage for twenty something years.
“Tom is a great songwriter and a very creative person. He’s excited about stuff, he’s inspired me to do things that I never thought I could do and we’ve made great songs together and you know, no hard feelings.
“The love is still there,” he added. “Well, wait until after it gets all ‘managery’ and ‘lawyery’.”