{"id":266085,"date":"2026-09-30T20:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/pete-davidson-says-he-cooked-his-own-ketamine-ate-pills-every-day-at-height-of-addiction\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:55:14","slug":"pete-davidson-says-he-cooked-his-own-ketamine-ate-pills-every-day-at-height-of-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/pete-davidson-says-he-cooked-his-own-ketamine-ate-pills-every-day-at-height-of-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson Says He Cooked His Own Ketamine, &#8216;Ate Pills Every Day&#8217; at Height of Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pete Davidson has experienced numerous ups and downs over the course of his years in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>These days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/08\/elsie-hewitt-posts-coupled-up-baby-bump-pic-with-pete-davidson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Davidson is a new dad <\/a>with a slew of exciting movie and TV projects on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>But he didn\u2019t always have so many reasons to be optimistic about his future, and in a new interview, he opened up about his darkest days.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2227300622-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Davidson attends the World Premiere of Amazon MGM Studios' &quot;The Pickup&quot; at Regal LA Live on July 27, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. \" class=\"wp-image-564029 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2227300622-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2227300622-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2227300622-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2227300622-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2227300622-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2227300622-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2227300622-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2227300622-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pete Davidson attends the World Premiere of Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 \u201cThe Pickup\u201d at Regal LA Live on July 27, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Kevin Winter\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a wide-ranging conversation published by <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/features\/pete-davidson-interview-ariana-grande-kim-kardashian-fatherhood-1236877622\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a> on Wednesday, Pete revealed that at the height of his drug use, the situation was so bad that his mother was afraid she would \u201csee on the news that something nad had happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was K. I was getting liquid and cooking it,\u201d he says, referring to the psychedelic drug ketamine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I would do acid and shrooms and whippets and smoke weed all day and eat pills every day. It got scary because I didn\u2019t feel high. I felt high when I wasn\u2019t doing it, so I was like, this is a huge problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davidson added that he sought help after an emotional phone call in which his mother urged him to get clean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe told me her biggest fear was waking up one day to see on the news that something bad had happened to me,\u201d recalls Davidson. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Dd6yUWkhEtS\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI reached a point where I couldn\u2019t do that to her anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These days, Pete has clearly turned a corner in his life and career.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/05\/pete-davidson-elsie-hewitt-split-5-months-after-welcoming-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his relationship with Elsie Hewitt may have fizzled<\/a>, insiders say the exes are dedicated to amicably co-parenting their daughter together.<\/p>\n<p>Pete is about to star alongside Nicolas Hoult in the highly anticipated action thriller <em>How to Rob a Bank<\/em>. And he credits his new lease on life to his daughter. <\/p>\n<p>Davidson says he\u2019s sober these days, with the exception of \u201cfour beers a year.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t f\u2014k with drugs anymore. It\u2019s been two or three years from doing really hard stuff and about a year or more from weed,\u201d he explains, adding:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeirdly, the hardest thing to stop was weed. And now it\u2019s easy because I have a kid. Anytime there\u2019s ever a thought, I look at my phone background and go, \u2018Oh yeah, no.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davidson says he\u2019d previously gone to rehab for the benefit of other people in his life, but this time, he got clean for the right reasons:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t be for anyone or for a job. You really have to want it, and when you\u2019re done, you\u2019re done,\u201d he told <em>Variety<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re sure his daughter will benefit from that effort for many years to come.<\/p>\n<div class=\"thg-endcard\" hidden=\"\" aria-label=\"Get the Hollywood Gossip app\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thg-endcard-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thg-ios-app-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thg-endcard-icon lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thg-ios-app-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"mv-trellis-img-1\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"thg-endcard-title\">Get the app \u2014 celeb news first<\/span><span class=\"thg-endcard-sub\">Push alerts the second a story breaks \u00b7 4.8\u2605 \u00b7 Free<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"thg-endcard-get\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/apple-store\/id372387225?pt=367523&amp;ct=web-endcard-cta&amp;mt=8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get the App<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/09\/pete-davidson-says-he-cooked-his-own-ketamine-ate-pills-every-day-at-height-of-addiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Pete Davidson has experienced numerous ups and downs over the course of his years in the spotlight. 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