Rick Springfield Claims He Killed a Man While Entertaining Troops During Vietnam War
The "Jessie's Girl" singer was 19 years old when he traveled to South Vietnam with Australian band MPD Ltd. Rick Springfield Claims He Killed a Man While Entertaining Troops During Vietnam War Alex Krinsky
Rick Springfield, a musician best known for his hit "Jessie's Girl," claimed during a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience that he accidentally killed a man while entertaining American troops in Vietnam during the 1960s. At the age of 19, Springfield, then a member of the Australian band MPD Ltd., spent several months performing for troops stationed in South Vietnam.
Their base was attacked while Springfield was in the radio shack, and he was invited to load mortars into a firing tube. He fired around five or six mortars during the battle. The next day, soldiers informed him that one of his mortars had struck a Viet Cong fighter. Springfield expressed that the incident has weighed heavily on him for nearly six decades, causing him to jump at car exhaust and leave him with a "haunted look."
He previously spoke about his time in Vietnam in a 1992 Los Angeles Times interview, admitting that touring as a teenager was a "very, very stupid thing to do."
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