Eric Church revealed it was a “pretty dark time” after dealing with back-to-back tragedies and a near-death experience.

In an interview last week with “CBS Mornings,” Church, 46, talked about the 2017 near-fatal blood clot that required emergency surgery and was followed by months of recovery.

The recovery was followed by depression after a mass shooting in Las Vegas and the loss of his younger brother Brandon.

“I went through a period there — there was a lot of darkness in that period,” Church said.

“Eight months. Pretty dark.”

In a July 2018 interview with Rolling Stone, Church said experienced tingling in his hands and swelling in his left arm, so he went to an ER. He was referred to another medical facility where an ultrasound resulted in his diagnosis and surgery followed.

“The doctor came in, and I said, ‘Bad news?’ He said, ‘Yep, you have a massive blood clot?’ I said, ‘Can it kill me?’ And he said, ‘Today,’” Church told “CBS Mornings.”

“It was the first time, I think, in my life I had maybe evaluated my own mortality, one, but then a lot of other people’s mortality, too.’”

A month later, the musician was the headlining the first night of the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas on Sept. 29. Days later it was the site of a mass shooting in U.S. history when a gunman opened fire on the crowd from his room at an adjacent hotel. Sixty people were killed.

“I watched people that night hold up boots and sing at the top of their lungs, and then two days later, it was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history,” he recalled. “I had a lot of fans that had stayed over for the weekend to see all the shows that got killed.

“Something about it just kind of broke me. I think it was the sense of what music has been for me along with them, the safe space part of it. I think shattering that shattered a part of me.

“It still is a tough thing.”

Less than a year later, Church’s brother Brandon, 36, died after he suffered two seizures and went into cardiac arrest on June 29, 2018.

Church told “CBS Mornings” he found comfort in his love of music while coping with Brandon’s death.

“I got through it like everything else I’ve got through in my life,” he said. “I turned to the one thing I know I can do. I wrote songs.”

Check out the full interview above.