Ryder told The Sun: ‘This non-malignant growth in my testicle is pressing on a nerve.‘It’s like having really bad toothache in your balls.’The scare has now made the Step On singer think about his health more, as two of his six children, Pearl and Lulu, are 11 and 12, and he doesn’t ‘want to go because of them’.He said: ‘I was one of those dudes who never thought I could die, no matter what.‘I now think I’m not invincible.’In the 90s, Ryder battled drug addiction, heavily using crack cocaine, heroin and the tranquiliser temazepam, and his drug habit broke up the Happy Mondays in 1992.However, the star has been sober for 17 years, and credits this to his wife Joanne and his children, as well as taking up cycling.Speaking about his parenting.