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John Mulaney is recalling an intervention he had right before entering a rehab facility in 2020. On Tuesday, Mulaney was a guest on "This Past Weekend with Theo Von" and detailed the intervention. "I remember I walked into my intervention.
I had just been to my drug dealer's apartment and I finally got the right balance," he said. "One pocket all coke. One pocket all Xanax and I was like ‘I have done it.
I reached equilibrium.’" The "Big Mouth" voice actor returned to a "bunch of people" in his home who expressed their concerns with his alcohol and drug use. Mulaney told them he "hadn’t used drugs" for a few days. "I went, ‘Look I am sober right now.
Look at me, I am sober right now,’ I kept saying," he explained. The former "Saturday Night Live" writer and comedian has had his struggles with substance abuse. He was sober in 2005, but he relapsed several years later.
Following the intervention in December 2020, he checked himself into rehab. Mulaney has been open about his struggles with drinking in past comedy specials. "I don’t drink. I used to drink, then I drank too much, and I had to stop.That surprises a lot of audiences, because I don’t look like someone who used to do anything," he shared in his 2012 special "New In Town." In an Esquire cover story in 2019, the Emmy-winner said his drinking started as a teen, and it led him to try cocaine and prescription drugs.
"I wasn’t a good athlete, so maybe it was some young male thing of ‘This is the physical feat I can do.Three Vicodin and a tequila and I’m still standing,’" he said. "Who’s the athlete now?" Mulaney said he first became sober at the age of 23 after going on a weekend "bender." "It was just crazy. A weekend that was ... there were ...
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John Mulaney found an unexpected refuge. The 40-year-old comedian, who did a two-month stint in rehab back in 2021, found himself in search of a place to live when he came to Los Angeles after getting clean and sober.On Tuesday's episode of , Mulaney revealed that he spent several weeks in the late-night host's guest house after his time in rehab. Mulaney shared that over the years Kimmel had frequently offered up his guest house for anyone who might need it.«Most people have homes, so they take that and go, 'Oh, Jimmy, you're a mensch.' I must have filed it away.
John Mulaney is opening up about his intervention.
His Netflix comedy special Baby J marks his return to the spotlight after battling substance abuse, and John Mulaney’s time in rehab is something he’s willing to talk about—in unapologetic detail.
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Comedian John Mulaney has had a lot on his mind recently–and he’s spilling all the details in his comedy shows. A former Comedy Central and Saturday Night Live staff writer, John Mulaney’s net worth and fame skyrocketed after the release of his first two Netflix specials: 2015’s The Comeback Kid and 2018’s Kid Gorgeous. He repeated that success with the release of his third Netflix special, John Mulaney: Baby J., in 2023.
John Mulaney is opening up about the intervention that saved his life.In his new Netflix comedy special, , Mulaney got candid about the changes in his life over the last few years, including a stint in rehab and the intervention with his famous friends that got him there.Mulaney admitted that he was addicted to a cocktail of drugs, and was heavily using cocaine when a group of 12 friends in the comedy community gathered together in person in New York and over Zoom, under the guise of «dinner with a friend from college,» to encourage him to enter rehab.Calling it the "'We Are the World'" of alternative comedians over 40," Mulaney said everyone from Fred Armisen to Nick Kroll were on hand to voice their concern over Mulaney's well-being.In addition to Armisen and Kroll, he said Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, and Natasha Lyonne were at the intervention.«Let me just call this out now, I don't mean to be weird. It was a star-studded intervention. It was, like, a good group,» Mulaney told the sold-out crowd.
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John Mulaney is opening up about the intervention that saved his life.
his divorce and the birth of his son with Olivia Munn — as well as the pandemic.He burst into song about the weird years, singing, “We all went to rehab, and we all got divorced, and now our reputation is different. No one knows what to think.
$6 million in debt.Appearing on CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday, the Oscar winner recalled his financial struggles after the real estate market crashed, saying he signed up for any role he could just to be able to pay the money back.“I was over-invested in real estate,” he confessed. “The real estate market crashed, and I couldn’t get out in time.”“I paid them all back, but it was about $6 million.