“As long as I’m balancing coke and Adderall with Xanax and Klonopin, I’ll be just fine,” John Mulaney thought to himself before getting sober in late 2020.
The comedian, 40, detailed the intervention that preceded that stint in rehab during Tuesday’s episode of “This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von,” saying he “walked into” his home – with his pockets lined with drugs – to find “a bunch of people” waiting for him.
“I’d just been to my drug dealer’s apartment, and I finally got the right balance: one pocket all Adderall and coke, one pocket all Xanax,” he explained. “And I was like, ‘I have done it. I reached equilibrium.'”
Mulaney admitted he was “pretty strung out” at the time but “was insisting” to his loved ones that he “hadn’t used drugs in days.”
“I went, ‘Look, I am sober right now. Look at me. I am sober right now,’ I kept saying,” he told host Von, acknowledging that his addiction was “off the rails” at that point.
“I remember times when I felt like, ‘OK, I’ve done too much. Like, this is serious, and I’ve done too much, and maybe I should go down to my lobby and sit there in case I need to…'” Mulaney shared.
“I lived right near an urgent care. I was like, ‘Maybe I need to sit here and just tell the doorman to grab a paramedic or something.'”
The former “Saturday Night Live” writer said he spent “five or six days” in detox, during which he felt as though his “skeleton wanted to rip outta [his] body.”
“I remember laying on my bed just like f–king writhing,” he recalled.
The funnyman first “got sober in 2005,” but he said he “slowly got back into pharmaceuticals over the next 13, 14 years: prescribed, then abused but prescribed, then bought on the street.”
Upon completing treatment in early 2021, he asked his wife of nearly seven years, Anna Marie Tendler, for a divorce.
That September, he confirmed that he and actress Olivia Munn, 42, were expecting a child together.
The pair’s son, Malcolm, was born two months later.
