Pete Davidson reveals he was ‘cooking’ ketamine at the height of his addiction as he lists all the drugs he took before going to rehab
Pete Davidson revealed he was doing multiple drugs including ‘cooking’ his own ketamine at the height of his addiction, before checking into rehab.
The comedian, 32, opened up about his struggles with drug addition in a new interview with Variety published Wednesday.
‘It was K. I was getting liquid and cooking it. And I would do acid and shrooms and whippets and smoke weed all day and eat pills every day,’ he said.
‘It got scary because I didn’t feel high. I felt high when I wasn’t doing it, so I was like, this is a huge problem,’ the funnyman – who also branded himself a ‘survivor’ of ‘really tough’ Kim Kardashian, 45, relationship – said.
Davidson recalled how he reached rock bottom in the summer of 2023, following the release of Bupkis, an autobiographical series where he starred as himself.
It was also a year after he departed from Saturday Night Live, which he said left him without the structure in his life that he’d become accustomed to.
Pete Davidson revealed he was doing multiple drugs including ‘cooking’ his own ketamine at the height of his addiction, before checking into rehab
The comedian, 32, opened up about his struggles with drug addition in a new interview with Variety published Wednesday
He told the publication that ‘playing yourself and constantly living in your own crap’ forced him to revisit some of his darkest moments, and that he used drugs to cope with the pain.
Davidson finally decided to get help and enter rehab after an emotional FaceTime call from his concerned mother Amy.
‘She told me her biggest fear was waking up one day to see on the news that something bad had happened to me,’ he said.
‘I reached a point where I couldn’t do that to her anymore.’
After the call, the SNL alum checked into rehab and walked away from Bupkis, even though the show was renewed for a second season.
‘I was part of the problem of what I hated the most, which was the invasiveness around my personal life. I was just lobbing it up and continuing the narrative,’ he said.
Though he’d been to rehab several times prior, he said that this time he truly wanted to get clean for himself and not other people.
‘When I turned 30 and I was there, it was a real low point. Nothing much was going on with my career and I was like, ‘This f****n’ sucks. I can’t do it anymore.’ And it can’t be for anyone or for a job. You really have to want it, and when you’re done, you’re done.’
The comedian said in a new interview with Variety published Wednesday that at one point he was ‘cooking’ ketamine
Davidson recalled how he reached rock bottom in the summer of 2023, following the release of Bupkis, an autobiographical series where he starred as himself.
It was also a year after he departed from Saturday Night Live, which he said left him without the structure in his life that he’d become accustomed to
He said having a daughter now makes it an ‘easy’ choice to remain sober. He welcomed daughter Scottie with model Elsie Hewitt late last year. The pair split earlier this year
Davidson said he is sober now except for around ‘four beers a year.’
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‘I don’t f**k with drugs anymore. It’s been two or three years from doing really hard stuff and about a year or more from weed. Weirdly, the hardest thing to stop was weed.’
He said having a daughter made it an ‘easy’ choice to remain sober now.
‘Anytime there’s ever a thought, I look at my phone background and go, ‘Oh yeah, no,” he said.
He welcomed daughter Scottie with model Elsie Hewitt late last year. Davidson and Hewitt split earlier this year.
Speaking of his deep love for Scottie, Davidson said: ‘Scottie is my whole life. I was living or dying on this business and what I thought people thought of me. It was all validation and “If I do this, then I’ll do that.” But as soon as I saw her for the first time, I was like, “Oh my God, none of this f***ing matters at all. It’s a job. If I get to do cool stuff, great; if not, cool, I get to be home more with my kid.”
He credited his daughter for being the reason that he is ‘doing better’ now, following his past struggles.
Davidson said: ‘It’s filling a lot of emptiness. If you think the internet’s sick of Pete Davidson, I’m sick of it. I’m exhausted from being me all the time. That it’s all about her first is the best gift ever. It’s an indescribable feeling. It’s the best, man. I’m excited to get up every day.’
Elsewhere in the interview Davidson spoke candidly about his whirlwind romance with Kardashian, four years after their breakup.
He dished details on his nine-month romance with the reality star bombshell, which was the subject of much media scrutiny at the time.
‘I’m one of the survivors – the few and the proud. We’re like the Marines,’ he teased in reference to Kardashian’s dating history, which includes ex-husbands Kanye West and Kris Humphries.
Davidson said he struggled with the intense public scrutiny that came with dating one of the most famous women in the world, saying: ‘Look, man, that’s a really tough atmosphere if you’re not game. One of the things I love about Kim and that whole family is they’re like, ‘This is what we do.”
Elsewhere in the interview he branded himself a ‘survivor’ of ‘really tough’ Kim Kardashian, 45, relationship; The two pictured in 2022
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Davidson went on to compliment his ex, saying: ‘I found that very attractive and mature. And I was never subjected to anything I didn’t want to be a part of.’
‘[Kim] was super respectful of all of it, but the craze of that lifestyle – being followed everywhere, having security and looking over your shoulder – for a guy with mental stuff, and at the time drug problems, was a little too much for me.’
Despite the intensity of his relationship with Kardashian, the comedian told Variety he has no regrets about the romance.
‘We’re cool, and I have a lot of love for her, and I knew what I was getting into,’ he stated.
He also spoke about his decision to remove almost all of his 200 tattoos, because he thought they were ‘horrible’ and a way to ‘show people his pain’.
‘One, they were f***ing horrible. Two, it was a business decision. I hated coming into the makeup trailer three hours early to spray-paint over horrible tattoos’, he said.
‘And third, I was like, “I’m not this dude.” I got these when I was in an immense amount of pain and I was trying to show people my pain’, Davidson added.
But Davidson will be keeping his Hillary Clinton tattoo.
‘She stays. That’s my dog. I love Hillary, man. She’s awesome and a good friend’, he told the publication.
Davidson candidly revealed that some of his tattoos were to cover up evidence of past self-harm.
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