Macklemore had a conversation with actor Dax Shepard on the Armchair Expert podcast, and the rapper revealed that he relapsed on drugs after COVID-19 hit. Last year Shepard also talked about having a drug relapse, which Macklemore said he fully related to.
“I really, really resonated with the episode where you talked about your relapse,” he told Shepard. “I Justin Timberlake’ed it. I cried. I maybe had a tear. We’re not exactly sure. But it was within two months of my COVID relapse, and the disease of addiction is crazy … It made me feel, as someone that had relapsed again, like a month or two before, that I’m not alone.”
“It wasn’t just a relapse anymore, it was the sneaky, lying, I’m getting pills and I’m not telling anybody," added Macklemore, who got dissed by Freddie Gibbs after Gibbs lost a Grammy award earlier this year. “I’ve spent most of the last 11 years in recovery, and it’s made me who I am. I’ve compromised my life and other people around me, I’ve done things that I’m not proud of, but I do have that foundational level of 10 years of recovery, and I’m f*cking proud of that.”
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