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  • John Mulaney Opens Up About Past Addiction: "I Drank For Attention"

    John Mulaney Opens Up About Past Addiction: "I Drank For Attention"

    The Emmy-winning comedian was a blackout drinker but got sober early in his career.

    Celebrated comedian John Mulaney recently opened up to Esquire about how he got sober at a young age and never looked back.

    Like many comedians, Mulaney has battled substance use disorder and even used the disease as material for his routines. Mulaney first started drinking when he was 13, and as he explained to the men’s mag, “I drank for attention. I was really outgoing, then at 12, I wasn’t. I didn’t know how to act. And then I was drinking, and I was hilarious again.” 

    Booze, Cocaine & Vicodin

    Following the pattern of many when they first become addicted, his drinking then transitioned into the use of other substances. Unlike a lot of teens, Mulaney wasn’t a fan of smoking pot, but he liked to mix cocaine and prescription drugs together.

    “I wasn’t a good athlete, so maybe it was some young male thing of ‘This is the physical feat I can do. Three Vicodin and a tequila and I’m still standing. Who’s the athlete now?’”

    Mulaney suffered from blackouts, and at one point he remembers drinking perfume. Then he went through a big bender when he was 23 and the experience served as a major turning point in his young life.

    “I was like, ‘You’re fucking out of control. I said to myself, I don’t like this guy anymore. I’m not rooting for him.’” 

    Helping Pete Davidson

    When Mulaney quit alcohol and cocaine, he didn’t join a 12-step group. He says he quit cold turkey, and is sober to this day. After cleaning up his act, he’s also been trying to help troubled SNL star Pete Davidson. He explained to Davidson, “You can have a life in comedy that is not insane – a sober, domestic life.” 

    Earlier this year, Mulaney appeared on SNL with Davidson, where they joked about mental health during the “Weekend Update” segment of the show. In the segment, Mulaney confirmed that he and Davidson spent time together, “but a lot of the time it looks like I’m Pete’s lawyer.” 

    To which, Davidson retorted, “And after observing John’s life I publicly threatened suicide. I know I shouldn’t make that joke, but it’s funny.” 

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  • Pete Davidson Returns to SNL With Support From A Sober Star

    Pete Davidson Returns to SNL With Support From A Sober Star

    Comedian John Mulaney joined Davidson during Weekend Update where they joked about mental health, hanging out and watching The Mule.

    After a tumultuous 2018 filled with personal and professional challenges due in part to mental health conditions, comedian Pete Davidson returned to Saturday Night Live last weekend, guided by former SNL writer John Mulaney, who is in recovery. 

    The two appeared together in an interview portion of Weekend Update, where Davidson makes an appearance from time to time to discuss his personal life and sometimes his mental health for laughs. 

    “As you know, I’ve had a really crazy month and I want to talk about something that really matters to me,” Davidson told Colin Jost. 

    “Mental health?” Jost asked. 

    But no—the sketch was about the new Clint Eastwood film The Mule.

    Seeing Davidson and Mulaney side by side, Jost remarked that he didn’t know the two hung out together. 

    “We do, but a lot of time it looks like I’m Pete’s lawyer,” Mulaney said. “For real, I’ve been spending time with Pete to try to show him that you can have a life in comedy that is not insane. A sober, domestic life.”

    “And after observing John’s life I publicly threatened suicide,” Davidson retorted. “I know I shouldn’t make that joke, but it’s funny.”

    In December, Davidson was cut almost entirely from an episode of SNL because he had missed dress rehearsals, TMZ reported. Davidson reportedly was in his pajamas in his dressing room for most of the show. 

    Before that taping, Davidson posted a message on Instagram before deleting his account, saying, “I really don’t want to be on this earth anymore. I’m doing my best to stay here for you but i actually don’t know how much longer I can last,” according to Vanity Fair.

    That was concerning because Davidson has discussed his suicidal ideations in the past. His former fiancée Adriana Grande was so worried that she stopped by the set, but security refused to let her see Davidson, who had reportedly asked that Grande be kept away. 

    “I’m downstairs and I’m not going anywhere,” she tweeted to Davidson, before deleting the message. 

    However, in Saturday’s SNL return, Mulaney didn’t let the suicide comment slide without being acknowledged. 

    “Pete, look at me, look me in the eye,” he said. “You are loved by many and we are glad you’re okay.”

    Mulaney doesn’t often talk about his sobriety, although he has mentioned it occasionally. 

    “I don’t drink,” he said in his show New in Town, according to Vanity Fair. “I used to drink, then I drank too much and I had to stop. That surprises a lot of audiences because I don’t look like someone who used to do anything.”

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  • Rep. Dan Crenshaw Checks On Pete Davidson After Mental Health Scare

    Rep. Dan Crenshaw Checks On Pete Davidson After Mental Health Scare

    After Pete Davidson made a concerning mental health post on Instagram, Rep. Dan Crenshaw called him to offer his support.

    Despite being mocked by Pete Davidson about a month ago, Texas Rep.-elect and veteran Dan Crenshaw recently reached out to the comedian after Davidson made a concerning post on Instagram. 

    According to The Washington Post, Davidson’s post read, “i really don’t want to be on this earth anymore. i’m doing my best to stay here for you but i actually don’t know how much longer i can last. all i’ve ever tried to do was help people. just remember i told you so.”

    After seeing the post, Crenshaw called Davidson to check in on him, the Post reports. 

    “It was pretty devastating,” Crenshaw told NBC affiliate KPRC. “You don’t want to see somebody in that kind of position to the point where they’re actually putting out a cry for help on social media. That’s not a good place to be in.”



    “We don’t go back very far. We’re not good friends. But I think he appreciated hearing from me,” Crenshaw added. “What I told him was this: Everybody has a purpose in this world. God put you here for a reason. It’s your job to find that purpose — and you should live that way.”



    Davidson raised controversy after an SNL segment where he made fun of the fact that Crenshaw wears an eyepatch. Crenshaw wears the eyepatch because he lost his right eye due to a blast during a 2012 tour in Afghanistan. 

    There was extensive backlash from Davidson’s comments, the Post states, and eventually he apologized on air for his behavior, as well as in person to Crenshaw.

    “I made a joke about Lieutenant Commander Dan Crenshaw, and on behalf of the show and myself, I apologize,” Davidson said, according to the Post. “I mean this from the bottom of my heart. It was a poor choice of words. . . . The man is a war hero, and he deserves all the respect in the world.”

    This is not Davidson’s first social media post drawing attention to his mental health. He has discussed it openly, including his diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. He recently posted about being the victim of online bullying. 

    According to Crenshaw, he told Davidson, “Know that you have value and that you do more good than you realize for people.”


    “Especially a guy like that,” Crenshaw told KPRC. “He makes people laugh. Sometimes he makes people mad — but he makes people laugh a lot. And that’s what we talked about. It was a good conversation.”

    According to the Post, the NYPD also confirmed making a wellness check on Davidson after being alerted about the post. 

    Some celebrities and fans also reached out to Davidson. Among them were rapper Nicki Minaj, actress Jada Pinkett Smith, TV personality Meghan McCain and rapper Machine Gun Kelly, according to the Post.

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  • Pete Davidson Gets Candid About Cyberbullying, Mental Health

    Pete Davidson Gets Candid About Cyberbullying, Mental Health

    Pete Davidson, who has been vocal about his mental health issues, penned a post on Instagram about the cyberbullying he has received due to his former relationship with Ariana Grande.

    Comedian and Saturday Night Live writer Pete Davidson is opening up about the online attacks he has fielded since his breakup with Ariana Grande, and while he was dating the singer. 

    Davidson said that people have bullied him online and in public, bringing up his mental illness and suicidal ideation, during and after his relationship with Grande. The pair started dating in May and quickly got engaged, before splitting up in October. 

    Davidson has been open about being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in the past and took this opportunity to talk frankly about cyberbullying. 

    “I’m trying to understand how when something happens to a guy the whole entire world just trashes him without any facts or frame of reference,” Davidson wrote on Instagram on Monday. ”I’ve been getting online bullied and in public by people for 9 months. I’ve spoken about BPD and being suicidal publicly only in the hopes that it will help bring awareness and help kids like myself who don’t want to be on this earth. I just want you guys to know. No matter how hard the internet or anyone tries to make me kill myself. I won’t. I’m upset I even have to say this.”

    Davidson was diagnosed in 2017 and has been open about how his mental illness affects him. 

    “I’ve been having a lot of problems,” he told Marc Maron on the WTF podcast in September 2017, according to Time. “This whole year has been a f—ing nightmare. This has been the worst year of my life, getting diagnosed with this and trying to figure out how to learn with this and live with this.”

    However, Davidson told Variety that he has been educating himself in order to learn how to live with his illness. 

    “The last few years have been real rough with me,” he said. “I took all these mental health classes and really spent a lot of time getting me good.”

    In May, he talked about the misconception that people with BPD can’t have healthy relationships. 

    “Normally I wouldn’t comment on something like this cause fuck you,” he wrote, according to The Cut. “But I been hearing a lot of ‘people with bpd can’t be in relationships’ talk. I just wanna let you know that’s not true. Just because someone has a mental illness does not mean they can’t be happy and in a relationship. It also doesn’t mean that person makes the relationship toxic. Everybody is different and there are a lot of treatments for mental illnesses and I have done/am doing all of them … I just think it’s fucked up to stigmatize people as crazy and say that they are unable to do stuff that anyone can do.”

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  • SNL’s Pete Davidson Realized “It Wasn’t The Weed” In Rehab

    SNL’s Pete Davidson Realized “It Wasn’t The Weed” In Rehab

    “I was sober for 3 months at one point and I was like this f— sucks.”

    In a recent interview, Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson expanded on his decision to return to smoking weed after a brief period of sobriety made him realize he was “never sadder.”

    The 24-year-old Staten Island native told Howard Stern on Monday (Sept. 24) that he needed rehab to gain control of his marijuana use, but ultimately, could not live without it.

    “There was no way I could stop. I was like somebody has to put me in a house where there is literally nothing. I had too much access,” Davidson said. The comedian entered a treatment program in December 2016.

    He said in 2017: “I never really did any other drugs, so I was like, ‘I’m gonna try to go to rehab. Maybe that’ll be helpful.’”

    But once he was in treatment, he said “it wasn’t the weed.”

    “I was sober for 3 months at one point and I was like this f— sucks,” he told Stern. Davidson said in a past interview with Pete Rosenberg that he was “never sadder and everything was just way worse” during this period of abstinence.

    But at first, he seemed to enjoy the immediate effects of quitting marijuana. In a since-deleted Instagram post from March 2017, he said, “I quit drugs and am happy and sober for the first time in 8 years. It wasn’t easy but I got a great girl, great friends and I consider myself a lucky man.”

    But later he would be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), an explanation for why he feels “depressed all the time.” “This whole year has been a f— nightmare,” he said in September of last year. “This has been the worst year of my life, getting diagnosed with [BPD] and trying to figure out how to learn with this and live with this.”

    Davidson has been candid about his marijuana use and how it helps him cope with BPD as well as Crohn’s disease.

    “I have Crohn’s disease, so it helps more than you can imagine,” he told Stern. “There was a point where I couldn’t get out of bed. I was 110 pounds.”

    He told High Times in a past interview: “I found that the medicines that the doctors were prescribing me, and seeing all these doctors and trying new things, weed would be the only thing that would help me eat.”

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