Machine Gun Kelly is opening up about his sobriety journey.
Machine Gun Kelly is happy to be sober. The 34-year-old rapper appeared on Bunnie XO's Dumb Blonde podcast, and revealed that he is totally sober after going to rehab last year.
MGK started off my revealing that he first did ecstasy at age 11, but didn't go "the f**k off" in terms of drugs until his 20s.
"It started with weed and alcohol and then I really loved snorting Vyvanse. The work ethic that came, being able to lock in on something and be like, 'Oh my God. I just wrote six songs in two hours,'" he said. "... Loved hydrocodone. Loved Percocet."
MGK said that the COVID-19 pandemic helped him stop doing cocaine.
"Cocaine was the s**t to me... I'm so socially awkward, but I would do that before I went somewhere and I would leave and be like, 'I just f**king killed that s**t in there. Everyone loves me, dude,'" he said. "... [It gave me] this false sense of superman syndrome. COVID really helped that because... none of the dealers would leave their house."
What also helped was meeting his now-fiancée, Megan Fox, in 2020.
"That woman struck a bullseye. When I felt that sense light up, everything else went away and I learned what it was to accept living. It gave purpose to everything I was confused as to why I was here for," MGK gushed. "I'm forever grateful to God and indebted to the destiny lines that wove me and her together... When I saw her eyes for the first time, it was like I had a telescope to every secret in the universe. I think what followed that really proved what moving with love does."
Then, in August 2023, MGK got "completely sober" from everything, including alcohol.
"I went to rehab right after we got off the European tour last year. That was my first time ever going to rehab. Man, it just gave me so many ways to operate the body and show where this anger is coming from and methods to quell it," he said. "... I ended up falling into an awareness of what my condition is and have made peace with it. It's a constant tightrope walk."
Through it all, MGK said Megan "has for sure been extremely helpful in dealing with the kind of psychological withdrawals that come with [getting off drugs]."
"I've just been really happy seeing everybody. I love that I'm clear when I look at the person I love. I'm really happy that I'm clear when my daughter and I are having conversations and I'm coming from a place of being centered and holding space for what a child needs from a parent," he said of his 15-year-old daughter, Casie. "... That's been a huge reward for me. I give a lot of props to everyone around me for never quitting before I got to this point, because I really hope I'm a lot more of a pleasure to be around."
As for where his sometimes tumultuous relationship with Megan stands today, a source told ET in July that "things have been much better" between the pair lately.
"They've been problem solving, working on effective communication, reestablishing their commitment to each other, and realigning the direction of their relationship and where they want it to go," the source said. "Communication and therapy are what’s working best for them at this time. They're both still committed to working on themselves and together. Their engagement and wedding are still on standby, but they're very happy in this moment together."
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