MGK is celebrating one year of sobriety.
The rapper (who previously went by the stage name Machine Gun Kelly) revealed on Monday’s episode of the “Dumb Blonde” podcast that he has been clean ever since going to rehab in August 2023.
“I didn’t tell anybody outside of the [people] closest to me,” he explained. “That was my first time I ever went to rehab.”
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Megan Fox sparks pregnancy speculation with baby bump in MGK’s ‘Lonely Road’ music video
Megan Fox sparks pregnancy speculation with baby bump in MGK’s ‘Lonely Road’ music video
During his time there, the Grammy nominee, 34, learned “so many ways to operate [his] body and show where [his] anger is coming from and the methods to quell it.”
MGK (real name: Colson Baker) noted that while some of his psychiatrists and therapists “gave up on [him],” he “ended up falling into an awareness of what [his] condition is and has made peace with it.”
The rocker, who called his condition “a constant tightrope walk,” did not elaborate further.
“That one feels a little too brand new for me to confidently say,” he told listeners.
MGK did, however, gush over his on-again, off-again partner, Megan Fox, calling her “extremely helpful” in his sobriety journey — specifically with his “psychological withdrawals.”
“I continue to embrace that this journey is gonna be hard for me, but I accept it and forgive myself,” the self-proclaimed ”self-deprecating” songwriter added.
“I’m also really hard on myself,” he continued. “I’m just happy that I’m able to start to be comfortable enough to show people who I am because I kind of depended on my art to do that.”
During the lengthy episode, which spanned nearly two hours, MGK said that he used to abuse “weed and alcohol,” as well as hydrocodone and Percocet, and admitted that he “loved snorting Vyvans.”
Host Bunnie XO praised MGK for “hold[ing] to that” when her husband, Jelly Roll, wanted to have a “drinking contest.”
nely Road" music video" >MGK joked, “It just kills me because I just know I would have f—king drank that man under the table.”
Jelly Roll made headlines in May when he told Taste of Country that marijuana helped him to abstain from hard drugs.
“Marijuana has helped me in so many regards, with my anxiety,” the country singer, 39, said of the “hot button topic” at the time.
He and MGK collaborated on “Lonely Road,” out last month with a music video featuring Fox, 38, sporting a fake baby bump despite pregnancy rumors.
Fox and MGK have been an item on and off since her 2020 divorce from Brian Austin Green, with the musician proposing in 2022.
Although the actress confirmed on a March “Call Her Daddy” podcast episode that they are no longer engaged, she said they would “always be connected” and refused to “comment on the status of the relationship.”
