Funnyman Pete Davidson has come clean on the serious drug issues he overcame to get his life in order.
The 32-year-old Staten Island native told Variety that a year after leaving “Saturday Night Live” and finishing work on the 2023 series “Bupkis,” he took a dark turn fueled by intoxicants. His main problem during that directionless time was with the dissociative anesthetic drug ketamine.
“I was getting liquid (ketamine) and cooking it,” he confessed. “And I would do acid and shrooms and whippets and smoke weed all day and eat pills every day.”
Davidson said what worried him about taking that combination of hard drugs was that they stopped making him high.
“I felt high when I wasn’t doing it, so I was like, this is a huge problem,” he acknowledged.
“The King of Staten Island” star said his mom convinced him to get clean during an emotional conversation in which she expressed her fear that she’d turn on the television and learn that he’d died.
That’s when he checked into a rehabilitation center for what wouldn’t be the first time, but he hopes was the last. He also made the decision to move away from invasive film and television projects that mirror his own life.
His next movie is the heist picture “How To Rob a Bank,” which hits theaters in November.
If he celebrates the movie’s release, the libations will likely be kept to a minimum.
Davidson said he now drinks around four beers a year, abstains from drugs and hasn’t had marijuana in about a year. Having a 9-month-old daughter with his girlfriend Elsie Hewitt has helped him stay sober. His little girl’s photo is his phone’s screensaver.
He’s also working on removing the roughly 200 tattoos he’s gotten over the years.
“I got these when I was in an immense amount of pain and I was trying to show people my pain,” he explained.
Davidson also described his ink work as “f–king horrible.”