Pete Davidson is opening up about the daily drug cocktail that consumed him before he entered rehab last year.
The comedian, 32, said in an interview published Wednesday that he spent four years regularly taking ketamine, which he obtained in liquid form and cooked himself. Davidson also said he used acid, mushrooms, whippets, weed and pills on a daily basis during that period.
“It was K. I was getting liquid and cooking it. And I would do acid and shrooms and whippets and smoke weed all day and eat pills every day,” he recalled.
The former “Saturday Night Live” cast member said the breaking point came during the summer of 2023, shortly after his autobiographical Peacock series “Bupkis” debuted. That same summer marked one year since he had left the NBC sketch show, leaving him without the structure that had long anchored his life.
According to Davidson, portraying himself on screen forced him to repeatedly revisit the darkest chapters of his own history. “Playing yourself and constantly living in your own crap” proved traumatic, and he turned to substances to numb that pain.
The habit spiraled to a point where the drugs stopped producing their intended effect. “It got scary because I didn’t feel high. I felt high when I wasn’t doing it, so I was like, this is a huge problem,” he said.
What finally pulled him back was a FaceTime call from his mother, Amy. She told him that her greatest fear was waking up to news that something terrible had happened to him.
“She told me her biggest fear was waking up one day to see on the news that something bad had happened to me,” Davidson recalled. “I reached a point where I couldn’t do that to her anymore.”
He entered a rehab facility and walked away from “Bupkis” despite the show having already been renewed for a second season. Davidson acknowledged that continuing the series meant he was actively feeding the media frenzy around his personal life that he claimed to despise.
“I was part of the problem of what I hated the most, which was the invasiveness around my personal life. I was just lobbing it up and continuing the narrative,” he admitted.
Though he had been to rehab multiple times before, Davidson said his 2023 stint represented a genuine shift in mindset. He had turned 30 and found himself at a professional low point with little career momentum.
“When I turned 30 and I was there, it was a real low point. Nothing much was going on with my career and I was like, ‘This f–kin’ sucks. I can’t do it anymore.’ And it can’t be for anyone or for a job. You really have to want it, and when you’re done, you’re done,” he said.
Davidson told the outlet he is now sober, though he allows himself roughly four beers annually. He estimated it has been two to three years since he last used harder substances and about a year since he stopped smoking marijuana, which he singled out as unexpectedly difficult to quit.
“I don’t f–k with drugs anymore. It’s been two or three years from doing really hard stuff and about a year or more from weed. Weirdly, the hardest thing to stop was weed,” he said.
The comedian has spoken before about his struggles with marijuana cessation, but he said that fatherhood provided the motivation he needed. He and ex-girlfriend Elsie Hewitt welcomed a daughter, Scottie, in December 2025, after beginning their relationship in March of that year. The couple separated in May 2026.
“And now it’s easy because I have a kid. Anytime there’s ever a thought, I look at my phone background and go, ‘Oh yeah, no,'” he explained.
Earlier this month, Davidson spoke to Interview Magazine about how becoming a parent has reshaped his decision-making across every aspect of his life.
“I behave differently now. Every decision is different,” he said. “I want my daughter to be proud of both her parents. When she starts going to school and having friends, I want her to be proud of where she’s from, and I want her to be comfortable and feel safe.”
He added that he “will do whatever it takes to be here for [his] daughter.”
