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.
