Comedian Pete Davidson has confessed he was “cooking” ketamine and downing pills at the height of his drug addiction and he only got clean after an emotional call with his mother.
Pete Davidson’s drug addiction “got scary” when he started “cooking” ketamine but he went to rehab after an emotional plea from his mother.
The former Saturday Night Live star has admitted he was consuming a cocktail of drugs including ketamine, acid, pills and marijuana and he started to become concerned when he realised he was no longer feeling “high” but it was a candid chat with his mom Amy which finally convinced him to to stop.
He told Variety: “It was K [ketamine]. I was getting liquid and cooking it. And I would do acid and shrooms [mushrooms] and whippets [nitrous oxide] and smoke weed all day and eat pills every day.
“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 …
“[My mom] told me her biggest fear was waking up one day to see on the news that something bad had happened to me. I reached a point where I couldn’t do that to her anymore.”
Pete walked away from his TV series Bupkis and checked himself into rehab and he vowed to turn his life and career around.
He explained: “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******’ 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.”
Pete explained he’s given up drugs completely and he’s cut down on alcohol, admitting he now only treats himself to “four beers a year”.
He added: “I don’t f*** with drugs anymore. It’s been two or three years from doing really hard stuff and about a year or more from weed.”
The TV star went on to confess he found it most difficult to give up smoking marijuana, but now he just looks at a picture of his baby daughter Scottie, who was born last year, and it inspires him to maintain his sobriety.
He said: “Weirdly, the hardest thing to stop was weed. And now it’s easy because I have a kid. Anytime there’s ever a thought [about smoking again], I look at my phone background [picture of my daughter] and go: ‘Oh yeah, no’.”
Pete Davidson’s drug addiction ‘got scary’
