Pete Davidson is opening up about his past struggles with drug addiction.
The 31-year-old Saturday Night Live alum appeared on Power 105.1 FM’s The Breakfast Club on Wednesday (August 13), where he revealed how smoking weed impacted his mental health and led to psychosis.
“I was a daily, all day sorta guy and I got psychosis where you hear voices, and you feel like you’re sitting next to yourself. Weed isn’t supposed to do that … it’s because it’s too strong,” Pete explained.
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Pete said he battled substance abuse in his 20s, while also navigating the pressures of fame after joining SNL in 2014.
“Yeah, I was just doing drugs and trying to do comedy — you know what I mean? I didn’t kill anyone or anything, but it’s still… you don’t want that out. You want to be able to grow,” he said.
“That’s what we don’t really have anymore — any form of privacy, I feel like, for young people where you get to make those mistakes and learn your lessons, and it not be in Page Six.”
He shared that therapy wasn’t effective while he was still using.
“I was a big drug addict. I would go to rehab and stuff, and I do have mental stuff, and I was in therapy, but if you’re a drug addict none of that works. You can’t go to therapy on a bunch of drugs and expedite it to work.”
Pete eventually quit after realizing how much it was hurting his relationships.
“I’m not a person who can do things in moderation, unfortunately, and I think I was kinda trying to fool myself — be like, ‘You can do this’ — and it just got to a point where people I really cared about were like, I will not f–k with you anymore. Some of them don’t still. Most of them, I will say, came back.”
Now he is expecting his first child with girlfriend Elsie Hewitt.
Pete says he’s grateful he went through his addiction issues when he was younger.
“[It] got a little out of control fast, and I was really young … I’m glad all the bad, crazy stuff happened in my 20s,” he said. “I’m jealous of people who blow up when they’re 35 because they have a full life, they have their family, they have their friends, and they know who they are as people.”
“When you don’t know who you are yet and you’re just in the news all the time for literally bulls–t, it’s embarrassing, it sucks. I’m grateful that, not that it’s excusable, but that I was really young.”
He also explained why the SNL50 audience was “terrible.”
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