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Machine Gun Kelly participates in Univision’s 36th Premio Lo Nuestro at Kaseya Center onFeb 22, 2024 in Miami. Romain Maurice/Getty Images
Machine Gun Kelly has a year of soberness under his belt and he has partner Megan Fox to give thanks to for aiding him remain “completely sober from everything” considering that he silently went into a rehabilitation center in 2014. “I’m completely sober from everything. I don’t drink anymore. I haven’t drank since last August,” MGK, 34, informed Bunnie XO on her Dumb Blonde podcast on Monday (August 5).
Kelly claimed he mosted likely to rehab after completing his European trip in July 2023. “I didn’t tell anybody outside of the [people] closest to me. That was my first time I ever went to rehab,” he informed Bunnie, the model/influencer/podcaster and partner of nation celebrityJelly Roll “They just gave me so many ways to operate the body, show where this anger is coming from, and methods to quell it.”
He claimed he consulted with a variety of specialists and psychoanalysts, several of whom “gave up on me,” prior to he involved tranquility with his problem. “It’s a constant tightrope walk,” he claimed of soberness after confessing he “went the f–k off” with medications in his 20s.
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“I continue to embrace that this journey is gonna be hard for me, but I accept it and forgive myself. I’m also really hard on myself, very self-deprecating,” he claimed, while likewise saying thanks to long time companion starlet Fox for on call him. “Megan has for sure been extremely helpful in dealing with the kind of psychological withdrawals that come with [sobriety]. 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 [Casie] and I are having our conversations and I’m coming from a place of being centered and holding space for what a child needs from their parent, which is patience and advice.”
The something MGK joked “kills” him is that at one factor Bunnie asked the vocalist if he was up for an alcohol consumption competition with his “Lonely Road” partner Jelly Roll, and a sober Kelly needed to pleasantly decrease. “It just kills me because I just know I would have f–king drank that man under the table!” MGK giggled throughout what was or else a really determined, extreme hull.
The discussion likewise discussed the rapper/rocker-turned nation crooner’s challenging childhood years, consisting of a mea culpa for the temper he’s formerly shared in meetings concerning his moms and dads, specifically his late dad. “They deserve forgiveness,” he claimed of several of the remarks previously in his profession he made concerning his stressful training. “He [MGK’s father] was so tormented from some of the most insane s–t I could imagine a kid could go through that he had to figure it out with almost every possible bad circumstance going against him.”
The vocalist, birthed Colson Baker, matured the boy of Christian promoters and he defined the injury of his dad being linked in the murder of his very own dad when he was nine-years-old. “The story that was always told me was that their dad dropped the gun and his head essentially blew off,” MGK claimed haltingly concerning the scary mishap and the generational “curse” he’s been outlined by tools of the males in his household. “That all happened in the room with my dad at nine-years-old. So him and my grandmother were tried for the murder. They were both acquitted.”
He remembered his papa’s “gnarly” goes crazy whenever a young Colson would certainly make loud sounds, a response that made the rap artist “hate him,” though he recognize understands that what he was responding to was his dad’s childhood years injury. Though he really did not explain, MGK claimed he went over the occurrence with his dad when he got on his fatality bed, that made the artist understand he’s “projected myself to be somebody who has the stamina to endure… all these things that come with fame and criticism and hate because I fought back with all those traumas by becoming what I always wanted my dad to be, which is like tough, and shake everything off and fight anyone that comes at you.”
The almost two-hour, comprehensive conversation likewise discussed MGK’s distressed partnership with his mommy, whom he likewise confessed to “misrepresent[ing] her a lot early in my career.”
Listen to MGK chat his rehabilitation job on Dumb Blonde listed below (soberness talk starts at 1:46:45 mark).
