Rapper Post Malone and his problems with alcoholism took a toll on him. He has been very vocal about his problems in media and there was a time when he talked openly about the kind of phase he faced.
Malone was recently on a radio show with Howard Stern and this conversation has been picked up from that. A report on mediaite.com talked about this and we take reference from that story for our write up here.
Stern asked Malone if he was currently sober during the interview which aired last Wednesday to which he replied, “No, sir. I am responsible now.”
“How’d you get responsible because most people who have a problem with alcohol, they gotta go, you know, you gotta either go one way or the other,” Stern replied.
“It got to a terrible point. And, um, you — you ask some great questions,” Malone laughed. “It was to a really, really rough point. And I couldn’t get up off the floor for weeks. And that’s what a lot of the inspiration for the album comes, but I don’t want, I never want to bring people down. I just want to express how I feel.”
When Stern asked what drink he was particularly drawn to, Malone said vodka was what got him hooked.
“It was screwdrivers. It was a bunch of — it was vodka. It was vodka and it was bodying fifths and trying to hang in there and talking to people who weren’t fucking there,” Malone said.
“What do you think was going on? Were you hating yourself? Did you ever get to the bottom of it? Did you get help with it?” Stern asked.
“Um, no, sir. I never got help with it. I just have super beautiful people around me,” he admitted. “I met a really beautiful person that made me feel like a human being again.”
Malone credited his girlfriend for her “guidance out of the dark, into the light.”
“She saved my fucking life. It’s pretty epic,” he added.
Well, this is one big revelation.