Machine Gun Kelly has spoken about how his 15-year-old daughter helped him get sober.
In a recent episode of Game worth millions of dollars In his podcast, the rapper and singer (real name Colson Baker) talked about how a comment from his teenage girlfriend Casie prompted him to quit drugs.
“It started with my daughter saying, ‘Dad, do you know I can tell when you’re high?'” MGK recalls (via People). “It broke my heart. It was the ultimate disappointment.”
The musician further explained that his daughter was only 11 or 12 years old at the time.
“It took a while after that because drugs obviously have a strong hold on you,” Baker continued. “That was the first step for me. As a father and as a man, I have to break that generational curse for my child to be the father that my father would have been.”
Earlier this month, MGK announced that he had been “completely sober” for a year and had visited rehab for the first time in 2023. “I haven’t told anyone except the people closest to me,” he explained.
He admitted that he had abused alcohol, marijuana and pills in the past.
MGK also revealed that during his time in rehab, he met psychiatrists and therapists, some of whom “gave up on me.” “But I eventually realized what my condition was and came to terms with it,” he added. “It’s a constant balancing act.”
Baker also thanked his girlfriend Megan Fox for her help on his journey to sobriety.
“I continue to realize that this journey is going to be hard for me, but I accept it and forgive myself,” Kelly added. He further admitted, “I’m also very hard on myself, very self-deprecating. So, I guess I’m just glad that I’m starting to feel comfortable enough to show people who I am, because I kind of had to rely on my art to do that.”
In the same interview, MGK spoke about the strained relationship between him and his mother, who left the family when he was just nine years old. He has since reconciled with his mother and shared a photo of the two of them side by side on Instagram in 2022.
The artist also spoke about his relationship with his late father, who was on trial for the murder of his own father, and the impact this had on his life.
In July, Machine Gun Kelly celebrated Casie’s 15th birthday by sharing a series of photos on social media. “The world keeps spinning but when I look at you it stops,” he wrote. “Happy 15th princess.” See the post above.
In 2022, the star described a near-suicide attempt in his documentary Living in Pink – an experience that he says ultimately led to him getting off drugs.
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