Now, granted, I don’t know if Mikey and Bob had some sort of history together that warranted his reaction. Maybe Mikey was an asshole to him in the past or something, I really don’t know. Anythings possible.
However our biggest problem was actually when this occurred:
Mikey came out about his struggle with addiction. As most of us know, Mikey’s mental struggles have always been overshadowed by Gerard’s. So this is the first time Mikey’s ever really had the spotlight on him.
Which is totally great. Anyone who tells you getting over a long term substance addiction is easy is a f**king liar. And after that, I think most of us were willing to forgive whatever may or may not have happened with Mikey’s relatioship (not like it was anyones business to begin with though, really).
Except, of course, Bob.
At the one year anniversary of Mikey’s sobriety, he proudly posted this: