Pop-punk musician Machine Gun Kelly has suggested that he may have extraterrestrial ancestry.
During an appearance on the US talk show Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, the 35-year-old, whose real name is Colson Baker, embarked on an unexpected existential musing after receiving a compliment from Cohen about his youthful appearance.
“It’s a weird thing, dude. I don’t know if my age… I don’t know if it exists,” he said.
The conversation then turned to UFOs.
“I just don’t know many facts about my life. Like my skin, if it rips open, it heals really quick,” he confessed. “There’s just things where I’m starting to be like, ‘Who’s my dad?'”
Traditionally, MGK’s father is known to be James Colson Baker. Hailing from Houston, Texas, MGK was born to Christian missionaries and spent his early years in various countries including Egypt, where he learned Arabic before English, Kenya, and Germany. He later moved across the U.S., residing in Denver and Ohio.
In a previous conversation with Interview magazine, MGK revealed that his father was “extremely religious and extremely strict,” to the point of dictating how he held his pen.
However, MGK now seems to entertain the notion that James Colson Baker might not be his biological father, and instead, hints at a possible alien origin.
When Cohen asked if he believed he might be from another planet, MGK responded: “Yeah, I’ve asked my mom, ‘Was there any period of time you went missing, like off the Earth? Was there ever like a tall slender creature?'”
He added, “She told me she felt like she got abducted at one point.”
The unusual statements led to some bewilderment on social media, with one user commenting: “The next time someone asks me my age, I’m gonna straight up say I don’t know. My mama may or may not have had an affair with an extraterrestrial being. Beats saying you’re in your 30s good God.”
Another user jested: “He doesn’t have a birth certificate? That would help.”
In other, more terrestrial news, MGK reportedly turned down a chance to audition for the period vampire horror film Sinners due to a significant concern.
Released in April and amassing nearly $366 million (£271 million) at the global box office, the film is set in 1932, following identical twins Smoke and Stack as they return to Mississippi after cultivating a fearsome reputation as part of the Chicago mob. They aim to open a juke joint, but their plans are thwarted when a group of vampires crashes the opening night.
In a July episode of The Pat McAfee Show, MGK discussed how the film’s casting director wanted him to use a racial slur during his audition, which led him to withdraw from the process.
“Like Sinners, I was supposed to be in that,” he explained. “The vampire, they had me set up to do the audition – it’s the one that’s in the house, so he’s the second vampire, the one that the guy comes and eats the family.”
MGK was likely referring to the role of a KKK member, eventually played by Peter Dreimanis, who is turned into a vampire by Remmick (Jack O’Connell).
“I wouldn’t [say the n-word],” MGK stated. “I have a lot of aspirations to be in movies, it just hasn’t panned out that way. It’ll align. The angels will put something in the works.”
Despite this setback, MGK has already achieved some of his Hollywood dreams.
In 2018, he played Felix in Netflix’s hit film Bird Box, and in 2020, he appeared in both The King of Staten Island and Project Power, the latter featuring Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.