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  • Lil Xan Describes Withdrawals After Quitting Drugs Cold Turkey

    Lil Xan Describes Withdrawals After Quitting Drugs Cold Turkey

    “I wanted to stop drugs completely, but I did it the wrong way.”

    Rapper Lil Xan has never been secretive about his relationship with drugs and his quest to become sober. The “Whipped Cream” rapper recently relapsed after spending time in rehab late last year and he spoke to TMZ about how quitting cold turkey affected his body.

    Lil Xan, born Nicholas Diego Leanos, told TMZ that he stepped out of the public eye after relapsing on hydrocodone and Xanax. Following the relapse, Xan entered the hospital to detox and would go on to suffer several seizures during the strenuous process.

    Withdrawals

    “The withdrawals actually gave me seizures,” the 23-year-old Soundcloud rapper told TMZ. “It was a wake-up call … they said it was from just going cold turkey off of Xanax. I wanted to stop drugs completely, but I did it the wrong way.”

    Lil Xan’s battle with addiction has been a public one, like many of his peers. After seeing his hero Mac Miller and his friend Lil Peep succumb to their addictions at the start of their very promising careers, Xan decided it was time to get help for his addiction.

    Miller’s 2018 overdose death left Xan shaken and unsure if he wanted to continue making music. During an appearance on Adam22’s No Jumper podcast last September, Xan said,  “When your hero dies, f—k that s—t,” he said. “I don’t want to make music no more.”

    During the podcast, Xan also spoke about his desire to get sober.  

    “I want to get sober now, completely sober, but it’s so hard,” he told Adam22. “I just want to be off everything. I want to be like a normal person. If I didn’t have a tour coming up, I would be in rehab right now.”

    Losing Lil Peep

    A year prior to Mac Miller’s overdose, Xan lost a close peer to addiction. Gustav Elijah Åhr, better known as YouTube star and rapper Lil Peep, died in November 2017 from a fatal overdose. Fentanyl, Xanax, marijuana, cocaine and Tramadol were found in the 21-year-old’s system, according to a toxicology report.

    Xan said that Peep was on his mind a lot during his most recent relapse. The rapper entered rehab last December and checked out two weeks later. He has relapsed a couple times but the latest relapse made him withdraw from the public eye while he dealt with his health. 

    “It has to come from within,” Xan said about sobriety last year. “I’ve gone through periods of like, six months. And now it’s because of me. It’s because I want to be clean.”

    Xan says that he’s now “completely sober.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Lil Xan Relapsed, Still Focused On Sobriety

    Lil Xan Relapsed, Still Focused On Sobriety

    “I’ve been feeling like death from withdrawals but I know once I’m sober I’ll feel amazing,” the rapper said in an Instagram post to fans.

    Rapper Lil Xan recently relapsed, but he maintains focused on long-term sobriety, he told followers in an Instagram post. 

    “I love you guys so much, wanted to let you guys know I’m tapering off the last bit of norcos I’ve been addicted to, you can get better I promise, there’s no shame in relapsing it happens to anyone who goes through these issues,” he wrote. “I’ve been feeling like death from withdrawals but I know once I’m sober I’ll feel amazing, I love you guys to death and I’m forever grateful for my fans who have supported me through everything, and I thank my haters for teaching me that negativity on social media doesn’t matter at fucking all haha.”

    The Soundcloud Rapper Went To Rehab Last December

    In December, the rapper announced that he was going to rehab. The month before he had spoken with TMZ about how the deaths of other prominent music celebrities had frightened him and made him face his own addictions. 

    “As far as my sobriety goes right now, there was a long period of time where I was clean,” he said at the time. “But I relapsed. . . . Any other addict would understand that that s—t just happens. You just relapse — you don’t want to — and then you get clean again. It’s like a process. You need treatment and help and sometimes that doesn’t even help. It has to come from within. That’s what I’ve learned.”

    Mac Miller’s Death Changed His Perception On Drug Use

    Lil Xan — whose rap name is short for Xanax — said that fentanyl and Mac Miller’s death had changed how he saw drug use. 

    “I was selling Xanax before I was a rapper, you know, when it was real,” he said last November. “And the minute it got to fentanyl, I was like, ‘I’m not going to sell this.’ My friends were taking it, they were puking. I was like, ‘I can’t… I’m out of the game.’”

    Despite that, the rapper’s drug use and legal troubles seem to have continued. In June, Lil Xan reportedly pulled a gun on a man at a gas station in Los Angeles. The man had approached Lil Xan because the rapper previously called Tupac “boring,” and a “little bitch.” A video of the incident was posted on Instagram. 

    According to Complex, Lil Xan insisted that he pulled the gun in self-defense. 

    “I was about to be attacked and resorted to having to use self-defense,” he said. “Fuck all you old head ass bitches still talking bout that 2Pac shit. Live your own life and stop picking on a kid.”

    However, the LA Police Department is investigating the incident and said that the rapper’s actions could constitute felony assault with a deadly weapon. 

    View the original article at thefix.com